Word: gothard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bear's players, wearing the red jersey means being part of a tradition that reaches back to Don Hutson, Bart Starr, Lee Roy Jordan and Joe Namath. Says Defensive Back Andy Gothard: "Football at Alabama is earthly heaven." For the majority of students, the equation seems simple: by their football you shall know them. Cleo Thomas, Alabama's first black student-body president, says: "A national identity from football is all we have. If we had a losing season, we'd be nobody. We're gambling our pride and respect for the school on one thing...
...intrigued by "God's chain of command" as assumed by the Rev. William William Gothard [May 20]. God to husband to wife to child. Interesting,but why would She do a thing like that...
...Since Gothard's impact is just starting to be felt in liberal churches, most criticisms till now have been raised by Evangelicals. Wheaton Bible Professor Alan Johnson protests that Gothard's docile acceptance of life "takes the sting out of evil and even transforms it into a good." Johnson's colleague Gordon Fee thinks that Gothard's approach to Bible interpretation is simpleminded. "You cannot just stamp the 1st century culture onto the 20th century and say it is the divine order," says...
Scrap Subjects. Gothard, cheerfully convinced that he teaches only what the Bible does, is less concerned with his critics than with administering a budget that should reach $8 million this year. The money goes into a 200-acre headquarters complex in Oak Brook, Ill., where a staff of 70 answers 200 spiritual "Dear Abby" letters per month, prepares advanced seminars and is developing a national training center for pastors and schoolteachers, as well as a "character curriculum" that he hopes many colleges will adopt. According to Gothard, they should scrap conventional subjects and rebuild courses around 49 virtues, including diligence...
...Gothard, a bachelor, gets a salary of only $600 a month, drives a 1970 Chevy and still lives with his parents in La Grange, Ill. No one, he believes, should leave home until he marries. As for the fact that he is an unmarried man dispensing dogma on husband-wife problems and child rearing, Gothard is unworried. Says he: "We have some pretty good precedents for that: Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul...