Word: gospeling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Symington, James, the Senator's folk-singing son, who traveled south to spread President Kennedy's gospel. See THE HEMISPHERE...
...example, it will no longer be possible for British juries to give contemptuous damages of one farthing. Then again, the King James version of the New Testament will call for amendment; see the Gospel according to St. Matthew, V, 26: "Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." And X, 29: "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing...
Scholar & Thinker. High-church Archbishop Ramsey is a scholar and thinker rather than a mover and shaker. He has written five books, with titles such as The Gospel and the Catholic Church, The Resurrection of Christ, The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ. Theologically, he stresses Christian obedience to God; it is not for man to decide things, but to make himself God's willing instrument. Like Dr. Fisher, he is "for" church unity, but where Fisher tends to do things in committee, Ramsey tends to do them on his knees. "Ecumenism," he has said...
...writing was a quotation from a letter written by one of the most important of the church fathers-Clement of Alexandria, who lived in the late 2nd century. The letter, to an unknown Theodore, corresponds in vocabulary and style to known writings of Clement. It refers to a "secret Gospel" of Mark-so secret, in fact, that Clement enjoins Theodore to deny knowledge of it even on oath...
Behind Seven Veils. According to Clement, Mark, while he was with Peter in Rome, wrote ''an account of the Lord's doings" that presumably was the basis of his Gospel as it is now known. But he withheld those "doings" which only the initiated should have knowledge of and did not even hint ''at the ones pertaining to the mysteries." After Peter's death, writes Clement, Mark went to Alexandria with Peter's notes on Jesus, from which he "transferred to his former book the things suitable to progress toward knowledge." Even...