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HERE is a second component in Meyer's greatness. At a time when the sex cinema seems increasingly preoccupied with all kinds of perversions-whips and bestiality and white slavery and homo-sexuality and the rest-Meyer comes on as an evangelist for good old boy-meets-girl relations. All the sexual action of the film centers on normal-if energetic-heterosexual encounters between ever-so-consenting adults...
...Rome as titular Archbishop of Newport, on the tiny island of Wight off the English coast, is but a traditional gesture and will claim none of his time. Instead, he plans to return to New York to write, lecture and take up his interrupted career as the Catholic TV evangelist through a syndicated weekly program...
What was not clear in the article was a third alternative. It is possible for Nick to pass from his state of sinfulness to an experience of the joy and purpose he describes in the "evangelist." This is not accomplished through any irrational "leap of faith." Rather, through consideration of the historical and philosophical evidence, he can quite reasonably come to accept Jesus Christ both as a real historical person and as the living master of his life. Then the statement "Christ is in me" would be a reality, not a nebulous "religious" idea. Then the problem of sin would...
...Stop to music, and Yellow Drum, based on Truman Capote's The Grass Harp, reiterates Broadway's faith that a weak play sounds better set to music. Robert Shaw will star in the hymnbook version of Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis' novel about a corrupt evangelist. Fellini's film La Strada is being unspooled, as is All About Eve (stage title: Applause, Applause!), starring Lauren Bacall as Adam's fetching...
...Mennonite brotherhood as president of Eastern Mennonite College and Seminary in Virginia. But Augsburger is anything but oldfashioned. He is both a dedicated integrationist and a pacifist who forthrightly insists, "I don't think a just war is possible in this century." A wide-traveling and well-known evangelist, Augsburger is also an intense intellectual who believes that "evangelicalism is both creative and contemporary. It is not tied to any given culture, economic structure or political philosophy...