Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major General John Williams ("Willie") Persons, 59, commanding officer at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia; Jo Robert Persons, one of the nation's leading life-insurance salesmen until his death in 1946, and the Rev. Frank Stanford Persons II, 71, an Episcopalian who carried the Gospel to moonshiners in Virginia, coal miners in Pennsylvania, orange pickers in Cuba, is now back in Alabama...
Some theologians and all lovers of the King James version's majesty will wince at Phillips' rendering of the famed "In-the-beginning-was-the-Word" prologue to the Gospel of John: "In the beginning God expressed himself. That personal expression, that word, was with God and was God, and he existed with God from the beginning." In the Beatitudes, too, many will take issue at Phillips' rendering of the "poor in spirit" as "humble-minded," "they that mourn" as "those who know what sorrow means," "the meek" as "those who claim nothing," and the "pure...
...flavor to the whole affair-royal background, star-crossed lovers, Episcopal blunderbuss, aging clerical sap, now for the mustard and cress-if it weren't all so desperately troubling . . . The lives of two people . . . her duty and his ... a chaotic moral theology . . . Romantic individualism was masquerading as the Gospel-is there anyone not moved to the, deepest and most penitent intercession for all concerned...
...Chicago and New York. Despite such signs of setback, the mood of the delegates was hopeful. "After all," said the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Hugh Dolan of St. Benedict's Church in Greensboro, N.C., whose parish is one of the few in the South with integrated parochial schools, "the Gospel principle of love is here to stay, and the segregationists can't do anything about it." The conference set up an interim committee (six priests, one nun and 15 laymen and women) to work toward a goal of 50 new Catholic interracial councils (present total: 36). Then the delegates...
...Pauck was referring to the theory of German Theologian Rudolf Bultmann (TIME, Sept. 24, 1956) that the forms in which the Gospel is set down had meanings for the people who wrote it which are no longer clear to contemporary men. They must be reinterpreted in order to be understood and communicated. Historian Pauck seems to leave out of consideration, however, the increasing popularity in recent decades of a more demanding, more theological, more supernatural form of religion in both Catholic and Protestant Christianity and in Judaism as well...