Word: edens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory; neither they nor the Jews find the stock Biblical proof-text from St. Paul convincing.* Others, notably Karl Barth, reject the Thomist theory of analogy on which the natural law stands; in fallen man, they hold, sin has shattered God's image, and since the Garden of Eden he has had no direct knowledge of God's reason or his will without revelation. Many Protestants distrust the whole Scholastic tradition, which they feel keeps man from direct contact with God by interposing an artificial structure of reason. But some Protestant theologians, while far from accepting the classical...
...fewer than 17 of his relations. The Cecils have done even better, with a tradition of influential official connections unbroken since the reign of Elizabeth I. Nineteen relatives of the present leading Cecil, the Marquess of Salisbury, sit in Parliament today; eight of them were members of Anthony Eden's government in 1956. One of the solid convictions of these people is that their own kin and kind are simply the best people...
...said: these pages have already carried four articles about it by three different people, including myself, and enough's enough. Few persons know, though, that J.B. was not the first time MacLeish dramatized part of the Old Testament: he wrote a play, Nobodaddy (1925), about the Garden of Eden, which was published the following year by, of all things, Dunster House...
Macmillan's first major task in New York was an embarrassing one: burying the hatchet with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. As Sir Anthony Eden's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Macmillan had been one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Britain's 1956 Suez invasion, which sought to topple Nasser. Now, swallowing his pride, Macmillan made a penitential journey to pay a call on Nasser, posed awkwardly for photographers beside the dictator of the Nile, who grinned...
...young Moabite widow who tells her mother-in-law Naomi, "Whither thou goest, I will go," and accompanies her to Bethlehem. Consequently, no one can disprove the Scriptures according to Fox, which make her a neophyte priestess of Chemosh, the child-devouring stone divinity. This gives Elana Eden, the dark-eyed Israeli actress who plays Ruth, a chance to show that she is prettily put together, since Hollywood's standard pagan-priestess gown is an off-the-shoulder number. The device also allows Writer Corwin to add a fairly effective sermon on prejudice to the Bible's skeletal...