Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly Fidel Castro's, but the pose was a new one. A halo circled the dark curls, the lips were parted as though in prayer, the eyes were cast to heaven, the brow furrowed under a burden of sorrows. Inevitably it called to mind the picture of Jesus Christ that hangs above the bed in all proper Latin American bedrooms. Just so that no one would miss the point, Cuba's weekly magazine Bohemia, where the picture appeared, added a block of explanatory text: "This is not the Fidel that the barbudos know. It is not a picture...
...with those words, one reaches the self-contradictory heart of Harvard unbelief--as also in the atheist admiration of Jesus and the agnostic appreciation of the Church. The undergraduate skeptic seems to have forgotten what was the rock on which the Western moral structure has rested for two millenia, forgotten from what book his ethical principles originally sprang, in Whose name meaning and purpose have overtly or covertly been found in life since time immemorial, and at Whose omnipotent behest good and evil were first thought to be distinguished and have been held in rigid antithesis ever since...
...argued, confession becomes an instrument of oppression in the hands of the church. Luther's own formula for absolution: "Dost thou believe that my forgiveness is God's forgiveness?" (Penitent answers yes). "As thou believest, so shall it come to pass. By command of our Lord Jesus Christ I forgive thee thy sins in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Go in peace."† Despite Luther; the practice of confession became increasingly stereotyped, was finally abandoned in the 17th century. Last week its revival was a major topic in Lutheran Germany. The occasion...
...Roman Catholic formula: "May our Lord Jesus Christ absolve thee; and I, by His authority, absolve thee . . . inasmuch as in my power lieth, and thou standest in need. Finally, I absolve thee from thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen...
...Journal, has blown up a storm among his readers with the news that, at the recent Southeastern Methodist Conference, the Committee on Hymnology petitioned the Methodist General Conference to authorize a new hymnal that they hope will omit such oldtime gospel hymns as What a Friend We Have in Jesus and Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine. Musically, said the committee, they are difficult to sing; theologically they are inadequate...