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...Sin Against God. The Christian Life Commission became a full-fledged agency of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1947 with the ostensible aim of bringing Christianity to bear on everyday life-the family, daily work, citizenship, race relations. It remained an organizational starveling until Foy Valentine became its executive secretary five years ago. A scholarly, witty Texan of 42, Baptist Preacher Valentine now runs a staff of three men and two secretaries, from a well-appointed office in the headquarters building of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville. On a budget of $90,000, he supplies written materials to local...
...Catholic teaching, suicide is a mortal sin; according to canon law, a Requiem Mass may not be said for someone who takes his own life. Presumably because LaPorte lived long enough to regret his action, the church allowed a memorial Mass, which took place in his home town of Tupper Lake, N.Y. His remains were buried in consecrated ground...
From his qualms about society, which were strengthened by the "world depression and the rise of Nazi terror," Niebuhr derived his basic theological belief in the sinfulness of man, developed in his magnum opus The Nature and Destiny of Man. But Niebuhr did not construct an either-or theology, one that views man as living either in sin or in grace. His is a both-and theology, one that closely adheres to the Biblical conception of the paradoxical coexistence of sin and grace, good and evil. This strong reassertion of the central paradox of the Gospels, wrote...
...bells that Aggie Hogan sewed in the hems of her dresses ring softly and sadly throughout William Alfred's Hogan's Goat. Though never seen in the play, and dead by the middle of the first act, she lives on as the persisting memory of sin which drives Alfred's characters to tragedy...
...Treating sin in a straightforward manner is not popular in the modern theater. But Alfred does not shy away from the conventionally unpopular. His play not only deals openly with sin and guilt, but it deals with them in a frankly religious context. Hogan's Goat is a Catholic play in subject and outlook. As the curtain falls a hard, righteous priest who is no way a hypocrite tells a sobbing woman on a starkly-lit stage that perhaps she should cry for us all. There are no apologies made for sin; regeneration comes only with confession and repentance...