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...even discussing the book would be an occasion of sin. (Greeley promptly started a sequel.) The New Agenda (Doubleday) may be Greeley's best theological work to date. It is a thoughtful pastoral prescription for a changing church, which, however, insists that basic Christian concepts-the Resurrection, a Saviour, God's fidelity-are still valid answers to modern man's anxieties. Says Eugene Kennedy: "Greeley is a progressive centrist. He defends the church while trying to move it forward...
...sack of potatoes, and put on his feet, and given two sticks and two helping hands, and his hat stuck on his head for him. This was not the Roosevelt the public saw. They saw the burly upper body, the bull-like neck, and the tossing head, the confident saviour of the republic in a dark time...
...followers. It is a curious mixture of Christian fundamentalism, Taoist-like dualism, numerology, and even metaphors from Moon's electrical engineering (the "give and take" between proton and electron, for example, as a model for that between God and man). The book points to a new Saviour from Korea, whose timing is remarkably similar to Moon...
...might have been a gathering of young Republicans, except that the buttons bore pictures of Guru Maharaj Ji, the 15-year-old "Perfect Spiritual Master." Stage right, an empty chair covered with white satin and bed ecked with flowers stood as a constant eerie reminder of the boy-saviour...
Davis may now follow the guru, but he's still a pretty good speaker. Deftly fielding the taunts, he talked to the crowd with a kind of self-deprecating humor, fully cognizant of the anomaly of a twentieth-century saviour with a Rolls-Royce, private planes and a world-wide network of devotees hooked up with each other via telex and watts lines...