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Most Christians have always defended the necessity of baptism for salvation, relying on Jesus' words in St. John's Gospel: "Unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." The stern-minded theologians of early Christianity, Father Dyer says, interpreted these words strictly, and consigned unbaptized babes to hell. "They are vessels of contumely and the wrath of God is upon them," wrote St. Augustine. "If no one frees them from the grasp of the devil, what wonder is it that they must suffer in flames with...
When Mondrian set about destroying space, he replaced it with the golden-section grillwork that formed the cornerstone for abstract art. With his friend Van Doesburg he founded the magazine De Stijl, and, as shown here, spread the gospel of color geometries to Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, England, Scandinavia and the U.S. The most brilliant works of the master are missing, but the evolution of his spatial austerity is easily visible in early works and drawings, its potential for beauty stunningly manifest in such artists as Strzeminski, Vordemberge, Schwitters, Nicholson and others. Through...
Helmut Koester, professor of New Testament Studies, Harvard Divinity School (A study of the growth and development of the so-called Gospel tradition in the second century A.D., at Harvard). Wilbert Lick, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering (Studies in the fundamental characteristics of energy transfer by radiation in conjunction with conduction and convection...
...undergraduates are sexually retarded, however. "There are plenty of Don Juan's around who are spreading the gospel about the sweetness of sex-love...
Soul-Winning Business. Last week some 3,000 of the faithful, from every state in the union and eight countries, gathered at her "jolly, gaudy" Temple for the 41st annual convention of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. Membership, reported Church President Rolf McPherson, 50, Aimee's only son, has reached a record 218,800. The Angelus Temple has spawned more than 750 daughter churches and 1,300 mission stations in 27 countries; graduates from its three Bible colleges will carry the faith to eight more lands in 1964. The church now boasts gross assets of $41 million...