Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avant-garde church that would be "a sign of the emergent city of man." Now Cox feels that the churches are beginning to overstress involvement at the expense of inner religious experience. "Once you transform everything into a mission for social action and lose the intrinsic joy of the spirit of worship, you are in danger of losing both," he says. "You don't really worship and you don't really serve...
...tradition with the bad, but "can result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting and calliope music-Cox suggested that the church can help bridge the credibility gap between past and present by reviving the "joy, festivity and holy mirth" in religion...
...surprising, and confusing, to many Americans that despite their poverty, backwardness, and illiteracy, and despite, political terrorism, repression, and censorship, the life of the Haitian peasantry has a richness and a joy...
...same kind of joy and spontaneity springs from the market places, despite the squalor, the smell, and the flies. On market day, the people rise before dawn to assemble their wares and carry them, in great bundles on their heads, to the villages. The market place becomes a meeting place where people find their friends, catch up on the news, and exchange their goods. They will bargain furiously over prices, not so much out of bitterness as with an exuberant sense of play...
...years ago, and the Episcopal church now counts more than 30,000 Haitians among its members. In terms of education, health practices and agricultural skill, the missionary work is valuable. But missionaries have an ugly fondness for concentrating more on converting the people than on helping them. With what joy, they say, are the natives discovering that Baptism is right and voodoo is wrong, that the great god Yahweh does, in fact, exist...