Word: faithfully
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...whopping 80 years and four generations of a single American family. In his mid-60s, Updike has set off on what is, for his career, the equivalent of an experimental novel. Updike uses overarching themes to bind up the threads of his lengthy story: the decline of religious faith and the corresponding rise of the movies. "The novel's central thesis--that movie theaters have become modern America's houses of worship--is never really demonstrated in action," notes TIME's Paul Gray. "It is fascinating to watch a writer of Updike's dexterity cram and mold some tremendously diverse...
...crippled her for the last several years, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan died on Wednesday. She was 59. The daughter of a Baptist minister, Jordan attained national prominence for her ringing oratory during the Watergate hearings in 1974 and a keynote address that galvanized the 1976 Democratic National Convention. "My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total," she declared during one of the House Judiciary Committee hearings on whether to impeach Richard Nixon. "She had a voice that sounded like the voice of the Constitution itself," recalls TIME's Bonnie Angelo. "She was the voice...
...RABBI, I FIND RELIGIOUSLY IRRELEvant the question of whether events described in the Bible represent historical fact [COVER STORIES, Dec. 18]. If it could be proved that every event portrayed in the Bible is absolutely and unequivocally historically false, my faith would remain unaltered because the Bible represents eternal spiritual and moral truth. The Jewish Bible represents a spiritual communication between the Jewish people and God and is not subject to historical analysis. I want to learn about historical facts, which may or may not corroborate the stories in the Bible. But that endeavor is of no consequence...
MANY INSECURE PEOPLE ARE HOPING FOR archaeological proof that the Bible is the absolute, revealed word of a supreme deity. This proof will never come, and people will continue in their personal religious beliefs, based on one premise, their faith in a particular deity. Only the gullible and naive will still believe that theirs is the one true religion. WILLIAM E. ADINT Woodstock, Connecticut...
...FUNDAMENTAL POINT IN MOST SOUND theology is that the Bible is not a history book as we understand that term in this day and age. Rather, the text of the Scripture deals with mystery, faith and how God is perceived in dealings with people. The two concepts are vastly different. As a trained theologian and pastor, I am not concerned with whether there was an Abraham, a Noah, a 40-year trek in the wilderness or an invasion of Palestine. The stories were created to convey the theological truth that God empowers, guides and saves. Faith...