Word: gospeling
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...have not yet quite faced ourselves-that acquisitive, Faustian man may be dying? The notion is not limited to youth. Isn't one extraordinary, still-echoing piece of evidence the fact that even a Republican President in a State of the Union speech cast doubt on the gospel of growth...
...stern exponents of a Scripture understood in literal terms and a life lived by rough-hewn moral precepts. Last week the 13,500 "messengers" who gathered in Denver for the SBC's 125th anniversary meeting* seemed to be running true to type. They filled the air with gospel singing and crowded onstage to deliver fervent "testimonies" before a background painted in Sunday-school pastels...
...religious conversion can save America. Technology is beyond reversal−"that which can be done must be done" is the law of applied science. But the country's attitude toward technology can perhaps be changed. The U.S. could, for instance, develop a proper distrust for the "gospel of growth." Such a change in attitude could put human welfare ahead of gross national product...
...Both Martin Luther and John Calvin explained the "real presence" of Christ in the Eucharist in different ways. Other reformers declared that the sacrament was merely a commemorative act recalling the Last Supper. In preaching the "priesthood of all believers," Luther acknowledged the need of ministers to preach the Gospel, but nearly all Continental Protestants rejected the necessity of bishops and the notion of holy orders as a sacrament...
...Berrigans rigorously believe in the unadorned Gospel of Jesus Christ, with all its austere demands. Christian life, they assert, was never lived better than in the days of the frontier Christianity described in Acts: life in common, to each according to his needs, Christian love as the necessary antidote to pagan society...