Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancient world is the Old Testament. This extraordinary book pulses with the record of stirring events that took place 1,500 years before Herodotus. Armies march and kings conspire in its lively pages. Prophets thunder their warnings; courtiers and diplomats conspire subtly. Commoners love and hate, worship and sin, bear children and tend their vineyards...
...good is "very good?" What happened to original sin? The difficulties don't stop there. To anyone who questions Tillich's belief in Logos, the giver of absolute moral laws, he writes, "there is self-deception in every denial of the natural moral law (Logos). For those who deny it must admit that a divinely revealed moral law can not contradict the divinely created human nature." This apparently means that Tillich's ontological notion of natural moral law has been confirmed by God himself...
...would be to argue for hatred. And perhaps it remained for Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton, rising in the U.S. Senate, to best place it all within context: "It was not a flaw in the American system or the American character that struck down John Kennedy. It was not the sin of a city or of its citizens. It was not a tragedy that struck from some dark stain of violence on the American system or in the American soul. And we do not serve the best interests of our nation, or of the memory of a murdered President, by letting...
...books. None earned him greater fame than a series of letters he wrote for the Manchester Guardian in 1941, cast in the form of instructions from a bureaucratic demon in hell's "Lowerarchy" to a junior devil engaged in corrupting a human soul. A witty Baedeker of modern sin, The Screwtape Letters became an immediate bestseller-and a minor masterpiece of modern religious prose...
...consecrated hosts, tried to say Mass, and even urinated on the altar. It is clear to one sister that he must die. The old maids consult two priests, the older of whom agrees with the death sentence for the reason that Tombo is a brute and cannot expiate his sin through repentance. It is too much for the younger priest. "Go ahead!" he shouts to the old maids. "Sacrifice that poor creature. Revenge yourself for your shame, your ridiculous impotence, your rancor, your rage." The sisters order the priest from the house, and while the housekeeper holds Tombo...