Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minister of the Harvard Square church where Adlai E. Stevenson will attend services tomorrow has switched the topic of his sermon from "How Dangerous is McCarthyism" to "the High Hope of Adventure...
Maugham clearly believed in what he belabored-so clearly that The Sacred Flame comes off much less problem than sermon. There must, after all, be two sides to any really dramatic problem play. This one is not only too one-sided, but is so unheated by life and emotion that Maugham had to keep it going as a rather pallid murder mystery...
...oppressive in its way than the well-posted boundary lines of denominations. At one extreme, pressed against the plain, are the disciples of the "liberal" theology, men suspicious of absolutes and friendly to change; their energies are thrown into the struggle for a better world and they like the Sermon on the Mount best when it is translated into free soup kitchens or psychiatric counseling. High on the mountain above them are their theological archenemies, the "orthodox" and the "neo-orthodox"; clustered around their patriarch, Swiss Theologian Karl Earth, they turn their faces firmly upward and preach the Word...
...story structure open at all times to the sky. Within it God can be known only through grace-"by being grasped in the totality of our being by the ground of our being." The experience of grace can be realized in many ways, e.g., by listening to a sermon, by looking at a picture. It will come whenever the mind is "open" to it.* That is why to reach souls religion must spread its message outside the churches as well as within...
...columns carried the authentic flavor of the combat infantryman's lonely world of fear and waiting: "Aside from the patrols and the small attacks, it's a constant vigil . . . Time drags when you sit and wait for something to happen." Reed's account of an Easter sermon, preached at a clearing leveled by a bulldozer the day before: "The chaplain . . . said that men, in these uncertain times, are seeking security . . . He said there is no better security than belief in the story he had just finished telling ... I left the service feeling that, in a time...