Word: gores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Down, Moses. Not only David's victory over Goliath but other marvelous episodes from Old Testament narrative-Jonah and his voyage in the whale, Methuselah and his ripe old age, Belshazzar and his feast-were ranked by Dr. Gore and his more than 50 collaborators as no more than Hebrew Nights' Entertainments. .They were explained as "products of the Semitic habit of exaggeration...
Lazarus. It was not the intention of Dr. Gore and his associates to undermine belief in the supernatural. They declared that evidence for the actual existence of Christ and his Resurrection was "overwhelming." The account of the raising of Lazarus "is accepted with all its implications as the climax of all the miracles of healing." They warned against any tendency to explain away the vital points in Christian faith...
Support. Agreement with the conclusions of Dr. Gore and his associates was urged on Episcopalians of the "Catholic" or "high church" type* by Rev. William A. Nichols of the Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn. Said he: "At the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, thought by some to be too 'high,' it has been taught for two decades that the Old Testament consists of myths, 'literature,' history and allegory...
...Gore was delegate to the Malines Conversations, when means toward reunion of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England were discussed...
...Significance. While other generals were tracing with blood and gore elaborate patterns of Napoleonic strategy, Grant defied all the rules, applied common sense, accomplished feats that Napoleon would proudly have claimed. All this can be gleaned from Woodward's interesting if arbitrary and cavalier account, but his great general is only too often submerged in the man, shiftless, gullible, pathetic...