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...pain appears to be psychological. Some back specialists say that in as many as 80% of all cases the pain is due not to any overt organic problem but to such elusive factors as stress, worry and other mental attitudes. Dr. John Basmajian of Canada's McMaster University puts even greater emphasis on the psychological aspect of backaches...
...most open-ended solution to the whole question is E.P. Sanders' work, The Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition, which concludes that none of the three Synoptic Gospels can be proved to have come first. Sanders, of Ontario's McMaster University, makes a systematic test of the usual criteria for what is early or late in Christian documents. Material is generally considered to be later, for instance, as it increases in length, detail, and direct discourse, and decreases in Jewish influence. Sanders contends that none of these tests is conclusive. As each Gospel developed, he found, descriptions of individual...
FRANKLIN J. HENRY Associate Professor of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton...
...sealed bids have been arriving for a year, and more than 30 universities, foundations and museums anxiously waited to see who will get one of the most sought-after collections of private papers ever placed on the market. The decision caught everyone by surprise: McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. (5,227 students), successfully purchased the vast array of letters and papers of BeHrand Russell, 95. There is enough of the stuff (150,000 items) to fill dozens of trunks-work sheets of Russell's milestone thought in philosophy and mathematics, his voluminous correspondence with such pen pals as Joseph...
...trace of a burr, McCracken estimates that he has delivered more than 5,000 sermons since deciding to become a minister, at the age of 17, upon hearing a lecture by a visiting Congo missionary. McCracken, who held pastorates in Edinburgh and Glasgow and taught at Canada's McMaster University before coming to Riverside, firmly believes that "a theology that isn't preached has something lacking." He argues that the Biblical message has not lost its relevance and provides an antidote to what he calls "the new melancholy"-exemplified by the dropouts from life who seek salvation...