Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Having turned back long ago from Canon Law and Scholasticism to the Bible, Protestantism ought now to go behind the Bible to Christ himself. So doing, it would be confronted again by that distinction between the Gospel and the teachings that is so clear in the Epistles of St. Paul. The Gospel is the primitive Church's interpretation of the mission of Christ, and was later to be compressed into the Rule of Faith and the Apostles' Creed. The teachings are the precepts of Christ, preserved in the parables of the Lord and the Sermon on the Mount...
...Protestantism was a return to the primacy of the Gospel, and so continued for 300 years. Once more, however, the Gospel is losing its ancient place. This time the teachings are supplanting...
This belief was the essence of his gospel. For five decades, in most of his 76 volumes, Wells preached it with the intense passion and reckless zeal of a religious fanatic...
Much of the world was already starving for such a gospel. So gifted and disarming a preacher was all that was needed. But it was not enough, as it turned out, to help the world to save itself from disaster...
...their religious scruples against saluting the flag had vexed mobs to tar & feather them and burn their homes. Over 4,000 had gone to jail for refusing either to serve in the armed forces or to be classified as conscientious objectors; Witnesses claimed they were all ministers of the gospel. But the Witnesses had thrived and multiplied a bit on a diet of rough treatment...