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...Gospel (TIME, Dec. 27), the earliest extant Gospel manuscript now known dates from A.D. 135, a full century after Christ's death. New Testament scholarship in modern times has therefore assumed that the Gospels were later compilations of stories about Jesus, drawn from several sources and including both pious legend and at least some philosophy and social ethics that developed after his death...
Temporal Justice. There are still some pockets of resistance within the church. In traditionally pious Andalusia, some peasants still literally kiss the hems of priests' cassocks. In Madrid, a group of ultrarightists who call themselves "Warriors for Jesus Christ" have smeared graffiti on the facade of one of the city's most liberal churches. But by far the most serious opposition has come from conservatives within the government itself. In his New Year's address, Franco threatened to take action against the church if it interfered in temporal affairs. A few days later, Spain's Undersecretary...
Such trivia are not redeemed by Morris' pious peroration, calling on "the human animal ... a simple tribal hunter by evolution," to indulge in a "magical return to intimacy." As any ethologist would warn Tribal Hunter Morris, man is the only animal to hunt without hunger, cropping his prey to extinction. ·Horace Judson
...that Christian apologists could ask from a supposedly unbiased source: virtual confirmation of the basic truths of their faith. The trouble was, scholars began to object during the Enlightenment, that such a passage could hardly have been written by a nonbeliever, and had almost certainly been reworked by some pious Christian editor. As historical evidence, the Testimonium Flavianum, as the passage was called, fell into disrepute...
...papal claims to authority rest. Mark plays down the Jewish moorings of Christianity that are evident in Matthew and important to Jewish-Christian relations. Moreover, since Mark's is the simplest and briefest of the Gospels, stories appearing only in the other Gospels might seem more suspect as pious legends, making the Jesus of history a vaguer, perhaps less credible figure...