Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...universe, the order, and beauty of the world and the obedience of creation to God that are entering our body. After that how can we fail to bless ... the Love that sends us this gift?" ¶"Of all the beings other than Christ of whom the Gospel tells us, the good thief is the one I most envy. To have been at the side of Christ and in the same state during the crucifixion seems to me a far more enviable privilege than to be at the right hand of his glory." ¶ "Matter is entirely passive and ... entirely obedient...
...Supreme Court Justice William Douglas likes to climb the highest mountains and talk to the lowliest of men, preaching a vague gospel of liberalism. Two weeks ago, returning from the Himalayas and points south, he announced that the U.S. ought to recognize Communist China (TIME, Sept. 10). Last week in Seattle, he had more to say about U.S. policy in Asia...
...Tribesman was getting ready to sail this week. Her strange and valiant cargo: 63 men & women missionaries, with 20 children, bound for South America, to bring the Gospel to the wildest savages they could find...
...students at Union Theological Seminary, he gave the same message: "The thing wrong with religion today the world over, and especially in America, is that it is too centrally heated, too cozy and comfortable." His remedy: less social psychology and good fellowship, more emphasis on an austere gospel of sacrifice. Said Macdonald...
...must preach a social gospel, but we must first of all preach the Word . . . To call the wrath of God a metaphor, to smoothly rationalize Hell, to smother the Cross in sentimentality is to play havoc with Christianity; you may have a religion left, but it is not the religion of the New Testament...