Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water or Jonah being swallowed by a whale can quickly develop into an insoluble controversy if it is suggested that such miracles are symbolic," writes Caldwell. In one such back-country church recently, he says, the congregation became concerned when the minister neglected to specifically reaffirm from the pulpit that Christ was born of a virgin and that God created the earth in six days; after two warnings, the minister "was charged with heresy and ordered to turn in his key to the church door before leaving town...
...gospel is moving out of the pulpit and into the public consciousness in many unorthodox ways-through jazz and rock Masses, plays, and even electric-light shows. Three current examples of imaginative means being used to interpret the Word in the vernacular...
...James Reston, the Times's outpost in the capital grew into an independent fiefdom, often brilliant but sometimes slack and slow compared with less lofty competitors. Complaints along these lines from New York headquarters were brushed aside almost as a matter of principle. In 1964, Reston acquired the pulpit of a full-time pundit, and was replaced as bureau chief by Tom Wicker, a top reporter, occasional columnist and indifferent administrator...
...Sterling views it, all too many clergymen suffer from similar frustrations. Often, he says, it is the "maddening nothingness of their contemporary ministry" that drives clerics to abandon the pulpit; those who resist such pressures frequently become ineffective victims of "overstay" in their parishes. Compounding their plight, disturbed priests are usually afraid or ashamed to discuss their feelings with their bishops or parishioners...
Arthur Miller in The Price has written a museum piece of a play to match the set. In form, substance and attitude, his newest drama is vintage 1930s. Always inclined to use the theater as a preacher's pulpit, Miller sermonizes on his favorite themes: guilt, responsibility, and the way a man's identity is forged or warped by society's image of what he is or what he should be. In structure, though not in content, the central situation-the sibling rivalry of two brothers and their relationship to their father-somewhat resembles Miller...