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...writings from earlier centuries, when the church was struggling to disentangle itself from the early heresy of Gnosticism, which blended Christian ideas with mystical elements from pagan religions of the East. Published last week was the first English translation of one of the most important Nag Hammadi documents-The Gospel of Philip (Harper & Row; $3.75), edited and annotated by British Scholar Robert McL. Wilson...
Also going out of style are rousing but theologically unsophisticated Gospel songs, such as C. Austin Miles's In the Garden...
...wonderful Glasses as they grow up. Reliance on ritual is a characteristic of the childish mentality: every cigarette lighting, tie knotting, or tea drinking is a ritual to the Glasses. The temple is the bathroom (which serves as a set for the major portion of the story "Zooey"), and gospel is scrawled on the mirror with old bits of soap...
...begin a mass move to the unassuming town of Bay Shore, L.I., a New York City suburb chosen for what the migrants conceive to be a novel blend of wholesomeness and godlessness. The purpose of "Exodus-Bay Shore" is to give that part of Long Island its first "pure-gospel" church, and the move is being sponsored by one of the nation's few big made-in-U.S.A. religious groups-the evangelical, expansive (2,250,000 members) Churches of Christ,* which dot Texas, Tennessee and Southern California...
Since the early 1940s, Juan Terry Trippe, 63, go-getting president of Pan American World Airways, has preached the gospel of the "chosen instrument"-the idea that U.S. airlines can profitably compete against subsidized foreign airlines only if Washington designates a single U.S. airline to operate overseas. Naturally he assumed that the chosen instrument would be built upon Pan Am. And since administrations in Washington have never followed his advice, Juan Trippe last week set out on his own to realize this ambition...