Word: semipagan
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...heterodoxy. A mathematician in his youth, he has spent most of his life in holy orders, trying, as he put it, to make the beliefs of the Christian religion "come to terms with science and scholarship." For Bishop Barnes, this involved repudiating the virgin birth of Christ ("a crude, semipagan story"), the existence of Adam and Eve, and such biblical accounts as Jonah and the whale and Noah's ark. He does not believe in miracles-whether current or biblical...
...notable example is Anglican Bishop Barnes of Birmingham, England, whose book, The Rise of Christianity, refers to the Virgin Birth as "a crude, semipagan story ..." TIME has encountered similar opinions among the Anglicans' Episcopal cousins...
...Virgin Birth: "A crude, semipagan story. . .. Biological research seems to indicate that a human virgin birth may be proved to be possible. Among the insects, reproduction from unfertilized egg-cells is common. . . . However, if biological research should show that in humanity a virgin birth could take place, and that therefore the 'miracle' of the Virgin Birth of Jesus was not impossible, those who now regard the miracle as essential to the Christian faith would feel disquieted. It would be asked why the Son of God should be born in a manner common among the insects, rather than...
...traditions of the Church of England. . . . One of the merits of the bill is that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery. "I give general support to this bill," concluded the Bishop of Birmingham, "not because of concessions to a semipagan community, but because it seems to be legislation in accordance with the spirit of Christ...
...Lustgarten between the old Imperial Palace and the Protestant Cathedral. Squads of police would be on hand to manage the pack. There would be a demonstration at the Kroll Opera House and down Unter den Linden would march a snappy parade of German Christians-the exuberantly radical semipagan backers of the Reichsbischof...
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