Word: priesthoods
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...young seminarian has become wildly infatuated with her, and is about to give up his studies for the priesthood. But Sophia Loren, 28, playing a 14-carat call girl in Vittorio De Sica's afilming trilogy, Yesterday, Today...
...Novel Expression. The human side of the triangle very nearly overwhelmed both the divine and the social. But the great parallel movement of the Renaissance and the Reformation powerfully reasserted the direct relation between man and God, conferring on the individual the freedom, but also the burden, of "the priesthood of all believers." And in the 17th century, society reached a new balance with man and God in the thought of John Locke, who believed in God as the ultimate guarantor of human rights, in natural law as the foundation of liberty and property, and in government as an arrangement...
...many churchmen cause to think twice about the validity of custom. Now at least 50 of the 168 churches belonging to the World Council of Churches admit women to the ministry. Barbro is the fifth of seven women to be elevated by the Swedish state Church to the Lutheran priesthood since Parliament authorized such an appointment...
Takeda, who studied for the priesthood in Boston and New York, began writing haiku 40 years ago, when he was an English teacher in a suburban Tokyo high school. Only in the last decade has he seriously begun to explore the Christian possibilities of the form. "I realized," he recalls, ''that in composing haiku in praise of nature I had been responding in praise to the creations of God." Takeda, who is now imparting his poetic technique to members of the University's haiku club, believes that the verse "is the Japanese form of hymn." He regards...
...arch-typal position--the individual for his own sake--fortunately this position calls for no action, but only complacent waiting for individual-type Negroes to drop in. J.G., then, entirely identifies himself with the white liberals, and curses them only to assume the singing-robes of the high-priesthood of liberalism, the persons of the prophet. Thus, he places his hope only in "liberals on both sides of the race barrier...