Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats. One Catholic youth of 22 was kicked, beaten and knifed to death (see cut). Daily through Rome's streets roared big trucks bringing thousands from the city's slums to Communist rallies-not to fill their empty bellies but to pour down their throats such a gospel of hate as only empty stomachs could digest...
...scientific investigation, is certain that miracles ... do not happen, Only figuratively can the blind receive their sight, or the lame be made to walk, or the lepers be cleansed. . . . Without a doubt, the need to jettison the miraculous element in the New Testament . . . weakens the reliability of the gospel narratives; and, insofar as Christian teaching has been built upon the power of Jesus to perform miracles, and upon the miracles associated with His birth and death, it calls for a drastic refashioning of such teaching...
...other free countries, men could hear and read the speeches of the ministers, and the press debate that they set off. In the U.S.S.R., where foreign intercourse is still impossible, men had no such unrestricted opportunity to reach for the truth. There Andrei Vishinsky's speech was the gospel: George Marshall's full text could not be heard or read. Beyond the Iron Curtain, misrepresentation, ignorance and error were making wild work with foreign relations...
...Vatican political state, not the Roman Catholic religion; I may be gullible, in spite of spending my life in journalism; I am no Communist fellow traveler, but admit gladly to being a fellow traveler of the Carpenter of Nazareth and proponent of the social implications of His Gospel -a dangerous admission in these witch-hunting days, when Christianity and Marxism are confused by ignorant or prejudiced Americans, unhappily including the editors of TIME...
...High] has put his finger on the sore spot of the professional church today. Protestantism seems to want psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, etc. filling their pulpits, but not preachers of the Gospel which Stanley High claims he needs...