Word: imageless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forms of Catholicism and Judaism, the progressive Protestant denominations are hoist with their own petard. Their very creedal flexibility precludes the certitude that attracts converts. In fact, believes California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, Christianity may be losing its power to grip the imagination. "We have become imageless," he says. "We have no symbols like Moses' passage through the Red Sea. We are empty people. The elements of mystery in the church have been almost systematically removed. But hunger for the mysterious is widespread in all people. We cannot be human unless we have the experience...
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