Word: sermonizings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early Christians extended the Sabbath ban against fighting to every day of the week. A literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount obviously necessitated a pacifist position. Writing against the Christians some time between 170 and 180, the Roman philosopher Celsus made the point that "if all men were to do the same as you, there would be nothing to prevent the king from being left in utter solitude and desertion, and the forces of empire would fall into the hands of the wildest and most lawless barbarians." But Christians ceased to be pacifist when the Emperor Constantine turned...
...joyous, irresponsible assumption of being an instrument of God's will. In this respect, Protestantism was no different from the Church of Rome. Luther and Calvin reworked Augustine's just-war doctrines, but the religious wars following the Reformation and periodic outbursts of heresy-hunting discarded the Sermon on the Mount for the text from Jeremiah: "Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood...
...realizes that Christ was a genius, of course, but no more so than Mohammed or Buddha or Machiavelli, so the best thing to do is go out and get a job. Another heroine (as we learn from her "New Angles on Life notebook") is mildly inspired by a sermon, but finds her salvation in a brass bed with an old friend who happened to be in church that morning. It's good to dismiss it all like that, but don't admit the symbolism--unless it's at the artistic level, of course. For a while you actually seemed...
...John Courtney Murray S.J., who yesterday morning delivered the first Sunday sermon by a Catholic minister in Memorial Church, last night cautioned the ecumenical movement about a "new indifferentism...
...title of Murray's sermon is "Age of Renewal." Price said he will speak about the Vatican's Council impetus to renew the Christian church at large. Murray, a professor of theology at Woodstock College, was a prominent participant in the Ecumenical Council Vatican...