Word: psalmist
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...others. They are, perhaps, seeking the ineffable quality the writer Katherine Anne Porter had in mind when she defined experience as "the truth that finally overtakes you." An ideal President is both ruthless and compassionate, visionary and pragmatic, cunning and honest, patient and bold, combining the eloquence of a psalmist with the timing of a jungle cat. Not exactly the sort of data you can find...
...Surely in trying to analyze the causes of human behavior we are unwise to ignore the spiritual? The Psalmist says to God, "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made," and the Apostle Paul recognizes that "when I want to do good, evil is right there with me." It seems clear to me that it is by God's design that we human beings are like this. It is not just a matter of our "gray cells." David Caudery, Blackburn, Victoria...
...tragic estrangement that predates Jesus' life and death by thousands of years. Since religion has existed, God has (or the gods have) always been defined by otherness. But for just as long, humans have feared that the alienation was increasing. "Why, O Lord, do You stand aloof?" cried the Psalmist, eventually concluding that the reason was human disobedience and sin. By Jesus' time, Jewish temple ritual included regular sin sacrifices freighted with hopes for reconciliation, or atonement, with God. (The word's original English meaning of unity is evident in its three syllables: at-one-ment.) By around...
...void, these details carry an emotional charge - it's not hard to find meaning in tears, scratches and bleeding. When these works were shown at the Guggenheim in 1966, some questioned the theme's suitability for a modern Jewish artist. Newman pointed to the subtitle, Lema Sabacthani, the psalmist's cry of "Why hast thou forsaken me?", telling an interviewer: "This is what the paintings mean to me. The cry." After the Stations, he needed to reinvent himself once more, says Temkin, and he took to the new bright acrylic paints. His surfaces became denser and he moved into...
...bomb split open the universe and revealed the prospect of the infinitely extraordinary, it also revealed the oldest, simplest, commonest, most neglected and most important of facts: that each man is eternally and above all else responsible for his own soul, and, in the terrible words of the Psalmist, that no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto...