Word: grasp
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...Richard McBrien feels that we have quite enough heaven now, thank you. McBrien, a liberal Catholic theologian at the University of Notre Dame who has skirmished on occasion with the Vatican but whose theological and historical grasp few would question, believes that before the Vatican II reforms of the mid-1960s, his church had slipped into the lazy role of using heaven and hell as "stories meant to encourage and frighten." Catholicism's once vivid otherworldliness had devolved into a sort of rote board game, in which preoccupation with involved scenarios of the life to come became an excuse...
...hymns, preserved like a bug in amber. There are still some churches where one can find a robust heavenly vision in the late 1990s--among Southern Baptists, and African-American denominations as a whole. But most late-20th century American Christians, observes Jeffrey Burton Russell, have a better grasp of heaven's cliches than of its allures. "It's this place where you've got wings, you stand on a cloud, and if the concept is more sophisticated, where you see God and you sing hymns. It's a boring place, or a silly myth, or something people invent...
...Wilmut and his colleagues figured out how to cross that biological barrier, they ensured that others would follow. And although the Roslin researchers had to struggle for more than 10 years to achieve their breakthrough, it took political and religious leaders around the world no time at all to grasp its import: if scientists can clone sheep, they can probably clone people...
...next album, which will also probably include covers of standards by Cline and Hank Williams. "I want to build my own life," she says, "not have someone do it for me." Now that Rimes has a hold on stardom, she's not about to let it out of her grasp...
...disguised. Afterward, Communist Party leader Genna dy Zyuganov called the performance "miserable, helpless, buffoonery without any real content behind it. I would like to hear why there is no economic growth. And why pensions, social payments and wages are not being paid." Yeltsin's speech, though, demonstrated a full grasp of the why. The evident difficulty will be in the how: how to restore the rule of law while paring the spongy Russian bureaucracy. On that Yeltsin was eloquently vague: "We must promise what can be fulfilled, an d what is promised will be fulfilled," he said. The answer, Yeltsin...