Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mann's Doctor Faustus, everything is a parody, of previous forms or even of itself. Creation of the new means the "deconstruction" of the old, and a sardonic snipe at other contemporary musical forms. The Pistols start parodying right off on side two with a symphonic version of "God Save the Queen," as much a parody of themselves as of art rock. A bizarre disco medley of "Anarchy in the U. K.," "God Save the Queen," "Pretty Vacant," and "No One's Innocent" follows on the same side. These, along with a French cafe version of "L'Anarchie Pour...
...God save Marty Bormann...
...have to believe in God to be a Protestant minister? The answer, as in so many cases these days, is yes and no. Germany, in particular, has been a veritable font of Protestant doubt for decades. But last week, deciding it had to draw the line somewhere, West Germany's United Evangelical Lutheran Church, which includes half the nation's Protestants, unfrocked the Rev. Paul Schulz for heresy...
Schulz holds a doctor of theology degree from Erlangen University, and for years was a Lutheran pastor at St. Jacobi Church in Hamburg. Since 1971 he has preached that the existence of a personal God is "a comforting invention of human beings." Schulz also wrote a book, Is God a Mathematical Formula?, and, in answer to the title question, he answered no but declared that God emanates somehow from "physical and chemical processes." Prayer? Mere "self-reflection." Life after death? Wishful thinking. Jesus? A normal man with good things to say who was later glorified into the Son of God...
...official "discussions" that proved fruitless, formal proceedings against him began in 1976. At the hearings, hardly a trial, Schulz played to a sometimes cheering gallery of theology students. By the seventh and final session this Jan. 23 Schulz was accusing his accusers: "You are upholding your old notions of God so you can uphold your own institutional power." No leading West German theologian championed his cause...