Word: gods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rhythm-and-blues stations, easy-listening stations, even rock stations. The LP from which the single was taken, Let Us Go into the House of the Lord, is doing almost as well. "It is good for gospel to go pop," says Hawkins. "It might bring the kids back to God...
...19th century and execution in the 16th. Several Dutch thinkers, for example, have tried to redefine the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Eucharist, which was made dogma at the Council of Trent; others have proposed radical new ideas on original sin (TIME, March 21). Even the conventional concepts of God, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ and the reality of his Resurrection are considered open for theological reconsideration. Last month, in an effort to establish the boundaries of such searching, Pope Paul VI appointed a 30-man international commission of theologians to study, among other questions, the distinction between heresy...
Moral Suasion. For many Christian thinkers, Catholic and Protestant alike, the whole notion of heresy has become a treacherous one. In fact, heresy may be as dead as God was supposed to be. Except for extremely conservative denominations, most Protestant bodies have abandoned the idea that a communicant can be expelled or punished for denying an article of faith. After an abortive attempt to condemn the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike* for heresy by the Episcopal House of Bishops, a committee of prelates concluded that moral suasion and intellectual arguments were the only means the church had to keep dissidents...
...walk all they way to the cemetery, so we had to "cut the body loose." The band walked over to the side of the street. Fats Houston paced soberly in front of the hearse as it crept past the band. We were playing "Nearer my God to thee." At about the middle of the block, Fats moved to the side, and bowed gracefully to the hearse. It moved on under the crossed banners of the benevolent society, picked up speed, and was soon out of sight...
...fact they're quite defensive about it, so much so that they cannot allow themselves to see alternatives other than the one they have taken. How else can they justify themselves--after all the social conscience doesn't pack up her bags in a huff and leave. Like God of Christian fable she waits and knocks insistently, perhaps pathetically, at the door after she's been thrown...