Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of year ?the familiar details seem etched on the heart. Yet they have been questioned by liberal scholars for years. Though often believers themselves, these scriptural experts have challenged nearly everything in the Nativity story: the angels, the star, even the wise men. As recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, the only one to mention them, the Magi are not the familiar three kings of Christmas legend (later piety gave them names, ages, races and crowns), but rather an unspecified number of astrologers, perhaps from Babylon. Even in that guise, some critics suggest, their existence is questionable, possibly...
...entire generation of female rock performers has matured over the past two years. Maria Muldaur, 32, performed in several jug bands before splitting from her husband last year to start a separate career. She now swaggers through a repertory of Dixie soul and gospel like a raunchy roadhouse vamp, while her nine-year-old daughter watches from the wings. Bonnie Raitt, 25, a honey brunette equally at ease with Ionesco's plays or Muddy Waters' music, plays tough-mama blues, slapping her guitar strings with an old bottleneck or steel slide to produce a gutsy low-down sound...
beams the gospel into China in five Chinese dialects from powerful transmitters in Manila, San Francisco, and on South Korea's Cheju Island...
Inevitably, the bishops had to face the problem of religion's appeal to the young. The church itself, several prelates conceded, turned off many youths. "The young person is looking for a model of Christ and the Gospel in the ministers," said Archbishop John Quinn of Oklahoma City. "In the eyes of the young those qualities [of Jesus] that are most important-joy, love and kindness, patience and tolerance, an open mind and a willingness to listen, a spirit of compassion and concern, simplicity and directness -are often missing in the ministers...
Pope Paul had stressed in his opening speech that evangelism was a permanent task of the church, that the Gospel must be preached to all, "to ensure that every tongue confesses that Christ is the only Lord and Saviour." Yet he also noted that even "non-Christian religions must no longer be regarded as rivals, but as a field of lively, respectful interest." In any case, added Ireland's Cardinal Conway, "there must be no boot-in-the-door type of salesmanship...