Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ubiquitous Billy Graham good for Christianity? Though many will fail to understand how anyone who preaches the Bible could be bad for it, there are those who feel that where the gospel is concerned, half a loaf can be worse than no bread. The Billy Graham debate is waxing hot in the pages of the Protestant weekly Christian Century...
...Affirmative. To Graham's defense this week comes Dean Elmer George Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary. Billy Graham, he writes, "does break through into human personality and seems to give thousands of Protestants a dynamic gospel which highly intellectualized and organized Christianity fails to give...
...Existentialism of all types has confronted us with the loneliness and the uniqueness of personal life. Unless this individual is brought into an encounter with God-in-Christ so that his very existence is placed before the absolute judgment and mercy of God, he has not heard the 'gospel.' Unless he is 'converted,' he has not been initiated into the new life of Christ . . . My contention is that we must not give up the emphasis on the individual in evangelism, but, rather, must come to a new understanding of its necessity...
...solid fundamentals of swing and the freest flights of progressive jazz. Their methods are similar: play a basic melody in the old style and elaborate it with floods of notes in rhythmically diverse patterns. Explains Manhattan's Tony Scott: "I want the simple cry of jazz that a gospel singer might put in five notes−only I may use 15." The effect is a bit like vanilla frosting on a beef pie−interesting, but not wholly palatable...
...existing structures, the use of bodies of water to provide focal points, resistance to a set style, a fondness for expressive materials. But there is another influence at work: that of Mies van der Rohe, the glass and steel purist whose "Less is More" has become younger architects' gospel...