Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judgment and mercy upon men who are dead in their complacency, self-confidence or pride? Your preachers . . . are still advocating justification by good works of one kind or another (maybe very orthodox or very 'Catholic' good works); they are not proclaiming the Gospel of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. . . . You are still preaching the Law, and a pretty easy going or romantic Law at that...
...Fathers of Protestantism? For a series of lectures (at Jewish Theological Seminary of America) on "Classics of Western Religion," Canada-born Church Historian John Thomas McNeill had to choose carefully from Protestant history. The McNeill lectures, now expanded and published under the title Books of Faith & Power (Harper; $2), may stimulate many a layman to re-examine the heritage of his faith. McNeill's six Fathers...
...persuade Luther to retreat from his stand. Luther himself said of his essay On Christian Liberty : "It is a small thing if thou regard its bulk, but unless I am deceived, it is the whole of Christian living in brief form." As in all his work, Luther named faith as the sole key to salvation; faith alone- not works-justifies the soul and frees it from bondage to the Law and to Sin. But the faithful Christian, though he puts no trust in good works, nevertheless performs them as the result of his faith. Luther expressed this concept...
...bows, and a delicately pursed mouth, in the accepted tradition, and made her cool and peaceful as a cloud. And she never changed, essentially, in all his later paintings of her; she only became more real, more human and more alive each time. Before he died, Bellini's faith and art had combined to create Madonnas like the one here reproduced, which were credibly like the Virgin the Wise Men found at Bethlehem: a living woman, and the Mother of God. The compassion in that Madonna's look, and in her hands which both protect and present...
Father Peyton attributes his sudden success in radio to a simple faith. Some think his Irish stubbornness helped, too. A big, bulky, bashful man of 38, Father Peyton came to the U.S. 20 years ago from a poverty-ridden County Mayo home, already smitten with "the passion of my life": the power of prayer. "I remember what it did for our Catholic family in Ireland," he recalls, "and how it united the eleven of us completely. I knew it would make happy families the world over...