Word: pentecostal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little (pop. 3,000) north German medieval town of Schoenfliess, where Paulus Tillich grew up, "one lived from Advent to Christmas to Pentecost. At Easter we children walked through the town with bundles of birch rods. It was the custom to beat the adults to get Easter eggs from them. Oh, how well I remember the wonderful fragrance of the fresh leaves!" At eight, Paul had his first brush with his future when "I encountered the conception of the Infinite." By the time he was 16, he knew he wanted to be a philosopher, and to this chancy calling...
Many other recipe names are equally farfetched, e.g., Matthew Punch ("because it is such a nice punch for serving at Christmas time"), Pentecost Cake (black devil's food), and Prophet's Pulse (a vegetable and egg dish). For church suppers, Author O'Brien recommends what she calls a Scripture Cake: 4½ cups I Kings 4:22 (flour...
...family of God-for the moment doing without reliance on scriptural, credal, ministerial or sacramental orthodoxy . . . But there is the danger of thinking that we can confront the world like that, and if we do we fall into the same confusion as there was in Jerusalem at Pentecost-we excite some to Godly praise but others to perplexity and contempt . . . And there is the paradox that because the great Church has not yet learned to agree sufficiently in the use of its corporate weapons of the Holy Spirit, the World Council of Churches offers to help the great Church...
...Graham enthusiasts maintain that the results of Graham's other big-city crusades have been tangible, if hard to measure. Says Presbyterian Minister and Author Dan Poling: "What about the entire history of Christianity since St. Peter preached at Pentecost? ... Is not Christianity itself the direct result of evangelism, mass evangelism included...
...living by turning out popular landscapes and portraits, Spencer has devoted the past 22 years to decorating a "chapel in the air" whose dimensions are nothing less than Cookham itself, with the main street for the nave, the River Thames as "a side aisle." Into it, Spencer fits his Pentecost, Cana and "couples" cycles, filling them out with Bruegelesque pictures of everyday life. Nothing is too mundane to leave out. Says Spencer: "All ordinary acts such as the sewing on of a button are religious things and a part of perfection...