Word: reverend
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...WRITING in enthusiastic support of the Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes and his defense of Christian liberty against those who would subject it again to bondage...
...redeemed Christians, Gomes says, and sinners all, we thus find ourselves afforded the liberty to remain "just as we are," fallen and unregenerately otiose. Thanks to the new gospel which the Spirit has revealed to the Reverend Professor, we discover that the Christian is free of any obligation to moral improvements, whether--as a Catholic might say--as a means of gaining merit, or--as a Protestant--merely to the glory...
...delighted to find in the Reverend Gomes a man more reformed and Protestant than Karl Barth--to say nothing of Luther and Calvin; a man more Christian than Paul, Augustine or Aquinas; a man with more authority than all of these and the Scriptures put together; and I find myself confirmed in this high estimation out of the man's own mouth, as he liberates us from each of these tyrannies in its turn...
...GRATIFIED, therefore, that Gomes has at last affirmed in public that position which it has for a long time apparently pleased him to assume in private. The Reverend Peter J. Gomes has spoken, and I cannot but marvel at the new expansiveness of that liberty with which Christ has set us free...
...newfound zeal for the teachings of the Reverend Professor Gomes, I have written anything here which seems to the more timid of The Crimson's readers to be contrary to Christian piety or good natural sense, I can only answer that I lay no claim to being a professor of Christian morals; and thus in matters pertaining to Christian ethics, I consider that I can do no better than to take up Gomes's opinions, and follow them with enthusiasm wherever they lead...