Word: gospeling
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...here I am, frankly before you, plump in the middle of heaven, to preach my gospel, and perfectly sure that such paragons of tolerance won't fail to take at least one look at the Other side, the Wrong side, the Bad Side, the False side, which up to now you have, in narrow bigotry, never touched...
...every serious writer: how to say what he means without getting tangled in the means of saying it. His second book shows that he still has something to say but is not yet sure of how to say it. Inhale & Exhale announces his creed but does not propagate his gospel...
...Egypt or the Near East, someone turns up what is called "the world's oldest Biblical text." Famed for its comparative completeness is Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th Century, sold by Soviet-Russia to England (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934 et seq.). For a time the oldest known gospel fragments were some 3rd Century papyri owned by Alfred Chester Beatty, onetime U. S. millionaire, now a British subject. Year ago the British Museum acquired some unidentified 2nd Century Greek papyri paralleling St. John (TIME, Feb. 4). Last December in the John Rylands Library of Manchester there suddenly turned...
...yeasty intellectual ferment in which U. S. churches today find themselves, such contradictory opinions on the Social Gospel have lately bubbled up to the surface of news. An older generation recalls that its preachers were excited about theology, about the infallibility of the Bible, about the threat of Science. Today most men of God are fascinated with the economic implications of religion. Judged by their pronouncements in print and from the pulpit, a majority of U. S. Protestant pastors broadly believe that a biblical heaven is possible on earth. But their chiliastic utterances are causing them more trouble, and evoking...
...outspoken. Their most vehement and powerful critic is Publisher Hearst, who is being ably aided by a Midwest organization called the Conference of Methodist Laymen. Within the past fortnight Mr. Hearst and the Methodist Laymen have been violently exercised by the following events and utterances on the Social Gospel...