Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PASTEL BLUES (Philips). Whoever called these blues pastel is colorblind. This is raw, strong and often ugly singing by Nina Simone, who makes one chilling visit to the South (Strange Fruit-"black bodies swinging from the trees") but mostly moans and shouts with gospel fervor about love and loneliness (End of the Line, Ain't No Use). Be My Husband is sung to the accompaniment of a loudly cracking whip...
...risk of excommunication and exile from society. The words of Paul VI and his bishops to Presidents and Premiers bear no such threat; but neither did those of the Apostles to Roman procurators. Thus the more the church returns in spirit to the unfettered simplicity of the Gospel from which it sprang, the more likely it is that its voice will be heeded again by the world...
...this supernaturalistic event did not take place, as unbelievers hold, it requires a natural explanation, and many have been offered. The Gospel According to Matthew says that on learning of the empty tomb, Jewish leaders spread the story that the disciples had stolen Christ's body. Celsus, a 2nd century anti-Christian polemicist, suggested that the Resurrection was a figment of Mary Magdalene's unbalanced mind. Sir James Frazer depicted the Resurrection as a variation of the Osiris, Attis and Adonis legends, symbolizing the death and rebirth of nature. French Author Pierre Nahor wrote that Jesus...
From his knowledge of scriptures, Jesus believed that the "messianic drama must be acted out" in Jerusalem, the spiritual and political capital of the Jewish people. Several months before Passover, says the Gospel According to John, Jesus went to Jerusalem "not openly, but as it were in secret."÷ The purpose of this journey was, Schonfield guesses, to set the stage "for the drama to be enacted at the Passover" by enlisting the secret support of Lazarus, Joseph of Arimathea ("one of the great mysteries of the Gospels, a wealthy man and a member of the Sanhedrin") and others...
...historical problem of the life of Jesus, as tackled by scholars from David Friedrich Strauss in 1835 to Albert Schweitzer and De-Mythologizer Rudolf Bultmann, is that the evidence for the empty tomb and the Resurrection comes from divergent Gospel accounts. Bultmann asserted that the Resurrection is not a historical event and is "nothing other than faith in the cross as the salvation event." Schweitzer rejected both the empty tomb and the Resurrection as legendary, stressing that they were unnecessary to the truths proclaimed by Jesus in his teachings. Schonfield claims that as a Jew he has no need...