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After failed attempts at courting donors, Dunster enlisted the help of the ambitiously titled Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England. The Society suggested a method for procuring funds: all Dunster had to do was take American Indian students into Harvard and deep-pocketed donors would step forward. The more these students knew English, the Society’s thinking went, the more they’d be able to read the gospel...
...FILM: The Gospel According to Janis...
...enough man. Calvinist Evangelicals like Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Southern Seminary, continue to press that point. Pure exemplary theory, he says, "is just an account of one human trying to impress other humans with the moral of self-sacrifice, and that is not the Christian Gospel and never has been." Others note that the theory shortchanges sin and evil, giving the impression that there is nothing wrong with the world that can't be cured by human endeavor...
...little while later, Ramey reflected on the meeting. "It's not that these people are not nice people," he said politely. "But they have a different reality. You get so high up, you don't have a clue as to the real truth of the Gospel, which is that suffering is part of salvation...
...Breaking the Waves and Bjork in Dancer in the Dark. Grace is the beneficiary of the townspeople's Christian charity, then the victim of their envy, malice, lies and sadism. She stoically endures a spate of abuse nearly as long and relentless as Jesus' in the Mel Gibson gospel. Her resurrection, though, takes a different, darker turn...