Word: haag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constantly accenting with his left hand the lyrical melodies that he plays with his right. The lead-guitarist, John Sheldon, has the kind of rhythmic chording sense that is so conspicuously absent in most white American rock-guitarists. In addition there is a fifth instrumentalist in the group, Kenny Haag, who provides some extra syncopation on rhythm guitar or tambourine or whatever is at hand...
...equally the members of the Bead Game are consummate musicians all who have evolved for themselves an immensely satisfying and rich musical form. Kenny Haag writes all the songs and the members of the group then painstakingly arrange them, integrating elaborate variations on the basic tune and a dazzling array of individual musical parts to make a coherent fertile whole...
There is so much more to say about the Bead Game, about Lassie Sach' driving bass runs, about Jimmy Hodder's soft and eloquent singing even while drumming, of Kenny Haag's hauntingly spiritual lyrics, but time and space...
...would suggest that the real reason that Father Herbert Haag cannot accept the doctrine of original sin is to be traced to his unmarried state. Like Pelagius (another single theologian), he has not had the advantage of seeing human nature close up in the form of growing children. If he had, he would undoubtedly know that children must be taught to do right, not to do wrong. Delightful as they are, they have an inborn teacher (original sin inherited from Adam) that instructs them most effectively...
Woefully Evil. Original sin, says Haag, did not begin to excite widespread theological interest among early Christians until at least the 3rd century. And not until the 5th century-when St. Augustine formulated the doctrine fully and invented the name "original sin"-did it become a basic part of church doctrine. For Augustine, as for many theologians since, the idea of a primordial sin helped explain one of religion's oldest mysteries: the existence of evil in a world supposedly created by a good God. In his pessimistic view, man was himself the culprit, woefully evil because his soul...