Word: gospeling
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...many, the most encouraging thing is the spirit of the description the prospective united church has devised for itself -"catholic, reformed and evangelical." The "catholic" should satisfy high-church Episcopalians, "evangelical" should please gospel-centered Methodists, and "reformed" will comfort Calvinist Presbyterians. Says San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, a top supporter of the ecumenical movement (though not a participant in the Washington talks): "The three words represent the best of all we have...
...resolution passed and the Kirk ruled that its Moderator could visit the Pope if invited, the conservative Free Church's journal thundered: "Instead of waiting cap in hand for an invitation from the Pope, we should be storming that bastion of AntiChrist with positive truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." The "if invited" clause that the Auld Kirk faction had demanded seemed likely to scotch the visit, since by Vatican protocol the Pope invites no one. But the Pope MODERATOR CRAIG AT ST. PETER'S Over the Wall...
...Devil. Brown is an evangelist of the social gospel only. For Oscar, the Devil is Mr. Kicks and God is any one's honest try - both of them amiable enough figures in his life. But the accept ance of his music, the success of his record albums, the outlook for kicks in the future - all are too bright to take seriously. "The other day a burlesque girl came by my room and asked if she could sing Mr. Kicks in her act," Oscar says...
...sure to be a different preacher from the ones his father heard. Like the U.S. itself, the sermon is in permanent revolution. The florid. Bible-based oratory of the 19th century-has largely disappeared from the pulpit-and so has most of the exhortatory preaching based on the "social gospel" that urged man to make God his partner in correcting economic and social evil. Even the familiar "life situation" sermon, with its emphasis upon individual moral uplift, is giving ground to a new and timely emphasis in Protestant oratory : theological exploration of the fundamental tenets of Christian doctrine...
...religious visions" induced by narcotics; conversely, one poet speaks of "getting a fix at the altar." Even more important than religion to most action poets is sex, but more important than either is excrement. Excrement is sacrament. They sprinkle it around like holy water, they spread it like the Gospel truth...