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...Robbed. Near La Grange, Ky., after finding $200 in cash and other belongings missing when they returned to their padlocked locker room following a game with the Kentucky State Reformatory baseball team, the visiting Fort Knox nine was told by Deputy Warden Porter Lady, "A lock doesn't mean much to some of our boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...scholars to some elaborate detective work and guessing games. Some believe that Paul spent most of his early career not in Jerusalem at all but in Damascus itself, hence could not have taken part in the stoning of Stephen or known Jesus. The emphasis on Jerusalem, suggests Professor John Knox of Union Theological Seminary, may have been provided by Physician Luke who may have innocently doctored both the Acts and his Gospel to present Christianity as a continuation of the mainstream of Judaism, thereby giving it protection as a recognized religion from Roman persecution. One scholar has even tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: More Than Conquerors | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...most publicized theologians, Karl Barth is popularly known more for his leftish political pernicketiness than his theological thinking, most of which lies buried in his verbose Church Dogmatics (twelve volumes so far). Especially valuable, therefore, is a book of Barth lectures just published, The Humanity of God (John Knox Press; $2.50). The book is a short, readable indication of recent developments in Barth's Bible-centered theology, and points up some conspicuous changes in his thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Barth | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

...Ronald Knox. d) Nevil Shute. 89. Died. A 46-year-old author (The Myth of Sisyphus) who would have considered the way he died, in a speeding sports car, absurd. His name: a) Nevil Shute. c) Ronald Knox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

When he knew he was dying of cancer of the liver in the spring of 1957, Ronald Knox asked friends to "ask our Lord to let me have the gift of perseverance." To one, he wrote with characteristic diffidence, "I gather this kind of cancer doesn't mean suffering in any acute form-I expect I'm not worthy of it." His last three days were spent in a coma. Once he roused, and a Lady Eldon at his bedside asked if he would like her to read to him from "his" New Testament. He replied with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Life & Death of a Monsignor | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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