Word: layman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking for something to deepen the sense of Christian solidarity on the layman's level, Cullmann was inspired by the collection St. Paul made among his missionary churches for the poor Christians in Jerusalem. This, says Cullmann, was not merely an act of charity but was intended by Paul as a "symbol of unity" between circumcised and uncircumcised, Jewish and Gentile Christians. Since unity is not possible today, the offering "would no longer be a symbol of unity, but of solidarity, of brotherhood among all who invoke the name of Christ...
...layman who know?s nothing about art but suspects that abstract painters are off their rockers won support last week from a Paris physician who has treated about 70 abstractionists in the last ten years. Not only are they sick, said Dr. Elie Bontzolakis in the weekly Arts, but "the more abstract, the sicker they...
...option, or a semester which stressed the atom and the universe--ideas of astronomy, galactic origins, relativity--would also have value. In each of these courses, the subject matter would represent a compromise between the dilletante survey and the intensive single subject concentration, which though valuable still leaves the layman isolated in one very small area...
...true in general of science. Indeed, the more advanced branches of physics and chemistry are so tied up with such exotic devices as tensors, spinors, bras, kets, partial differential equations, groups and the like, that any understanding of the real workings of modern science is virtually impossible for the layman...
...layman can prescribe it: change doctors...