Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coast in what almost amounts to an act of atonement: the movie not only presents a comically petty microcosm of war, but in its terse, understated way gives a withering account of the racial ignorance and contempt on which colonialism was built. The result hardly renews one's faith in human nature, but it is consistently riveting and grimly amusing...
...This Franju film begins like a color version of Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest. A fragile, handsome young priest just out of seminary has taken on the parish of a provincial town full of peasant atheists. He wants to believe that by the strength of his fervent faith alone he will convert even the most cynical, irreverent non-believers. His fasting, like that of the priest in Bresson's film, makes him weaker and weaker; but instead of succumbing to tuberculosis, he develops amnesia. There the parallels end. The rest of the movie carries him through an idyllic...
...listeners were prepared for such a plea, since intercommunion-which involves members of one faith taking the sacraments from the other-is generally seen by Roman Catholics as the final step in the reconciliation of the two churches after a split of more than four centuries. "It would appear that Dr. Coggan is overeager and jumping his fences without due regard for their height," sniffed a Roman Curia official. "We are a long, long way from accepting the Host at the hands of an Anglican pastor...
...radical conclusion for a theologian nurtured in a state church. He argues that infant baptism should be phased out because it signifies ties to "family, nation and society" as much as a person's identification with Christ. The church, he says, should baptize only those who "confess their faith." If Moltmann had added total immersion in water, a Southern Baptist would have felt right at home...
...Smith declares himself a "pagan" and expresses his regret that the Christian God ever overwhelmed Jupiter and his court of divinities. Most historians believe that the classical gods were already moribund when Christianity arose; Smith argues that they were alive and well until they were "assassinated" by the new faith. The early Christians' Jupiter-is-dead movement, he concludes, was the worst of "all the crimes committed in Christ's name" because it impoverished Western culture...