Word: gospeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands bobbing and weaving to stress his points. Ledesma says that while he finds some church doctrines (such as eating in moderation) make a lot of sense, he follows them "only as well as I can. I recognize them as good practices, but do not regard them as gospel." Finally, many of his companions live a life that violates fundamental Mormon doctrines. Many of his friends last year smoked dope, he says, and his roommate drinks (a Bacardi rum bottle stands on a nearby table in his suite). When deciding to room with the friends, Ledesma says, "the drinking never...
...have everyone hate him and crucify him, while he took their sins upon himself, thervby redeeming all sinners. This was his personal answer. To the public he offered a vision with no resolution but faith: the stark picture of his most artistic film Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to Matthew). The movie is set in the poorest, most barren part of Southern Italy, and the parts are played by amateurs. Christ dies in Calabria...
Insisting that the Social Gospel is not dead, the Boston group is enthusiastic about the struggle by the world's poor for a better material life, the drive for "ethnic dignity," women's campaign against "sexist subordination" in church and society, and efforts to foster a love for cities as "centers of civility, culture and human interdependence...
Godspell. Stephen Schwartz's musical based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew, which you may remember from a lavish and innovative film version a few years ago and the AM radio hit "Day by Day." In case you miss this production, the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid society is resurrecting the show as its spring musical. At the Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton Street, through January 25. Performances Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., and Sunday...
...arrested more than 40 times in civil rights demonstrations, and his skull was fractured at Selma in 1965. Since 1970 he has headed the Voter Education Project in Atlanta and helped register some 3.5 million blacks. As a Baptist seminarian, Lewis was kidded for talking up the Social Gospel, but he insists that some "immutable principles" must be at the base of the "Beloved Society" he envisions, and nonviolence is one of them. If a compassionate world is the end, he argues, "then the means we use must be consistent with...