Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Handy, as a staff-member of Signature, is at least partly responsible for the material the magazine runs. I suggest that she ponder the paradox of stories being harder to follow than Dick Tracy when they have less substance, which is often the case. And if she can go on from there to make the stories that do have substance as easy to follow as their content allows, instead of the opposite, Signature will become worth reading, and people will begin to buy it. Just the way they buy the funny-papers. Or Hamlet...
Wand of London and Norman B. Nash of Massachusetts was still more explicit: "Marxism, by an ironic paradox, is at some points nearer to Christian doctrine than any other philosophy in the field, and this makes its rivalry all the more formidable. It, too, is a 'heresy' of Christianity - a secularized form of the Christian hope, drawing some of its springs from the Bible and presenting something like a cari cature of [what] a Christian civilization stands for." This analysis permitted Lambeth to go beyond the Vatican's flat anti-Communist stand and concede that "in many...
Theologian Baillie's lucidity does not come from dodging complications. "Most of the great heresies arose from an undue desire for simplification," he dryly observes. He even tackles the place of paradox in theology...
First Grammarian. One central paradox of Christianity has always been the nature of Christ. Was He God or man or somewhere in a nebulous in-between? Theologian Baillie's orthodox answer includes both the "historial Jesus" and the "Christ of faith...
Hiding in the Limelight. Yet that was the error made by much of the British public in the years before Churchill became a member of the war cabinet. The paradox was that he remained in part unknown despite all his own writing, all his years of public service and all that had been written about him. He hid in the limelight. His secret weapon was that everyone thought he knew all about...