Word: pious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meeting in New York City last month, the general board of the National Council of Churches entered into soul-searching discussion of the role its members should play in the nation's civil rights struggle. Were pulpit pronouncements enough? Could the Christian conscience be satisfied by mere pious expressions of sympathy for the Negro? One who thought not was the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, executive head of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.'s general assembly, former president of the National Council and one of the U.S.'s most respected clergymen (TIME cover...
...Testament is one of history's most successful efforts to re-create the oral quality and poetry of the Hebrew Bible in another language. In his novels and folk tales, he has been responsible for re-creating the legend and lore of the Hasidim-the sect of joyfully pious Jews who flourished in the ghettos of Eastern Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. But Buber is best known for his philosophy of dialogue. It is not only one of the most important modern influences on Jewish thought, but it has also affected scores of Christian thinkers-among them...
...more than one monastery, the common recitation of the Divine Office takes between eight and ten hours daily. Some of the monks are regarded as living saints; yet among others sloth is not unknown, and the monastic love of God is often overshadowed by devotion to such pious relics-cherished by the monasteries as much as their beautifully illuminated manuscripts and rare icons-as the finger of John the Baptist and the girdle of the Virgin Mary. Many of the monasteries are dying for lack of new recruits. The Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon, once 2,000 strong...
...Realistic" Biographies. Most Christian believers have been content to accept the Gospels as an accurate, pious record of the life and times of their Saviour. Others have wondered. Inspired by the rationalism of the Enlightenment and by the development of scientific historiography, German and French scholars between 1775 and 1900 tried to write "realistic" biographies of Jesus. They stripped the Gospels of miraculous and dogmatic elements, and used new materials gleaned from non-Christian literary sources and from archaeology. Out of such efforts came such portraits as David Friedrich Strauss's Jesus as a Jewish sage, and Adolf...
...spirit of the earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaparoned by theology--the presence of a formidable portion of the local clergy caused those first occasions to be rather pious and somber. But the joyous aspects of graduation increased steadily and by the end of the seventeenth century, commencement had become the main spectacle of the New England...