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Irrational Individualism. The commonest mistake about the Holy Ghost, writes Canon Dewar, is to say "it" instead of "He." The gift of the Holy Spirit is "not the bestowal of a thing but the action of a person." The classic description of the Holy Spirit appears in the Gospel of John, where Jesus is quoted as promising to send the disciples "the Paraclete"-a Greek word variously translated as "comforter," "advocate," or "counselor"-to remind them of Jesus' teaching and to guide them to truth. At Pentecost, the 50th day after the Resurrection, the Holy Spirit descended upon...
...July 4, in the town of Benson, Ariz, (pop. 2,600), all the members of the sect called Full Gospel, Inc. suddenly vanished...
...among the auto workers of Detroit, 36-year-old Niebuhr came to Union in 1928 to teach applied Christianity. He had hardly settled in when the Depression struck, putting the U.S. in a new mood to listen to his impassioned preaching, and severely testing the era's "Social Gospel.'' which identified "the Christian faith with a mild socialism and a less mild pacificism, all encased in an overall utopian-ism.'' Against this. Niebuhr reasserted that man is born to sin and striving and cannot dodge either. He attacked both religious liberals and political conservatives, made...
Writing more than 15 books and reams of articles, building a cultural bridge to Europe which attracted men like Paul Tillich and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he brought a whole generation of Christians back to theology. Today the delusions of the ''Social Gospel" may have receded, but new problems have appeared. ''The insecurities of our age strongly tempt this generation, not to the utopianism of yesterday, but to flight into any kind of storm cellar of religious security, whether this be Biblicism of eschatological irresponsibility or emphasis on the uniqueness of the church...
...Paul's most hotly debated instructions (Romans 13:1-4), to submit to constituted authority ("Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers"), is an injunction that has often been used and abused in politics. Paul preached no "social Gospel"; Christian slaves should not hanker for their freedom ("Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called"), since they were free in Christ, and their Christian masters in turn were Christ's servants...