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Instead of the emergence of Christianity, younger theologians nowadays speak knowingly of The Event. Sin, in the person-centered approach of existential theology, becomes estrangement. And no theologian today worth his doctorate would dare talk of preaching or teaching: the fashionable forms are kerygma and didache...
...believe sin emanates from the heart," Wallace said, admitting that "if you negregate anyone because you hate him. that's sinful." He claimed, however, that he supported segregation because it was in the interests of both races...
...paused patiently time and again while scattered hecklers hoo ed and booed during his United Nations Day speech in Dallas' Memorial Auditorium Theater last week. When one crude superpatriot interrupted to shout a question about Stevenson's beliefs, Adlai, unruffled, replied: "I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance...
Betti's underpainting enriches his narrative line with spiritual significance. Just as the man who journeys to the end of the night finds day, so Cust in his single-minded pursuit of evil finds his soul, and in that soul a damning consciousness of his own sin. Just as the world, symbolized by the court, cannot cleanse itself, being innately corrupt, so Cust the sinner cannot save himself. He needs to be redeemed by innocent blood and forgiven through the gratuitous gift of love to the totally unworthy. Elena, the symbol of this grace, performs the dual function...
This story is obviously too frail to carry the show, but the music saves it, magnificently. Marcia Ramsey is the lady responsible for several of the excellent songs. The tunes do not commit the sin of great originality but they do have an appealing freshness (Harvardmen would be advised, however, to attend the show with a Wellesley date who can translate some of the more escoteric in jokes...