Word: gospels
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...more or less ironic counterpoint, a populist band of sinners and dancers variously sing, intone or howl doubts and questions in a mélange of musical styles and pop-lyric words by Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz, the 23-year-old creator of Godspell, the musical version of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The dramatic climax of the work is the disruption of the Mass. It also involves the spiritual shattering of a young man who begins as a simple guitarist and gradually becomes a priestly celebrant by receiving various sacred vestments-just as the church itself gradually acquired...
...Jesus Revolution (TIME, June 23) includes preachers of hellfire and promoters of love, fundamentalist Christians, mainstream Protestants, and even some Roman Catholics. Most, however, at least share a common belief in the basic tenets of Christianity: the triune nature of God, the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Gospels as the cornerstone of faith. But some so-called Jesus freaks really subscribe to exotic creeds all their own that to orthodox Christians are close to what used to be called heresy. And not only to traditional churchmen: even many inside the movement look suspiciously on these fellow travelers with Jesus...
Externally, The Way looks like any other branch of the Jesus movement: its adherents are mostly bright-eyed, smiling teenagers, ecstatically exchanging "Bless yous," telling of drug cures, perpetually thumbing their Bibles. There is also the ubiquitous music drumming across Gospel messages, sometimes to the beat of hard rock. In mid-August, more than a thousand young followers descended on The Way Biblical Research Center in New Knoxville, Ohio (pop. 850), for a weekend of spiritual study almost continuously backgrounded by rock. Musical groups of Way believers with names like The Dove, Cookin' Mama, and one from Long Island...
Should the Roman Catholic Church have a constitution? It has existed without one for more than 19 centuries-unless one considers the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the commission to teach that Gospel a constitution. Of course the church has had rules and laws aplenty, an accumulating and confusing morass of canons that were not even codified until 1918. That code is now undergoing a massive revision, and a bloc within the Vatican is asking for a kind of preamble to it that would become a new "fundamental law" for the church-one to which all canon law would have...
...mighty 10,700,000-member United Methodist Church, the most successful opposition comes from a movement known as the "Good News" Methodists, named after a quarterly magazine published by the Rev. Charles Keysor of Grace Methodist Church in Elgin, III. Keysor emphasizes the importance of preaching the Gospel to modern man and champions a return to enlightened evangelism coupled with effective social action. Liberals, claim Keysor and his associates, wrongly replace evangelism with social action, while traditional conservatives neglect social action...