Word: galilean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than eight years after his first Indian venture that the cumulus of his experiences, reactions, volitions suddenly crystallized in his mind into what was tantamount to a vision. Figuratively he saw the Galilean walking along an Indian road. He must offer the Christ, not in a Western setting, to which by historic accident he seemed to belong, but in an Indian setting. Thereafter, mostly among the quiet intellectual Brahmans but also among the outcastes, he preached the Christ, not Western, but universal. Him they would accept because they had spiritual accord with the mysticism of his life and suffering...
...document at a meeting of the American Waldensian* Aid Society: "The encyclical recently compounded is a childish document springing from an obsolescent ecclesiasticism, a remote legacy of the imperial idea of ruling the Kingdom of Christ by the Imperialism of Caesar. ... I am a Protestant because of the Galilean Carpenter who was the best protestant of all. ... He dealt, not in creed and dogma, but in life and humanity. . . . Love will solve the problem of all the unnecessary debates and bickering hates among the churches. Christ has been crucified many times by ecclesiasticism...
...deity of Christ, Mr. Bryan's central argument is that if Christ was not divine He was an imposter, and that it is unlikely a Galilean peasant could perpetrate "so stupendous a fraud for nearly 20 centuries on so large a fraction of the most intelligent of the world's population...