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Philosophers and theologians have always debated the morality of debt. Aristotle condemned the charging of interest as "most unnatural," the early Christians considered it sinful, and the Schoolmen of the Middle Ages equated it with usury-until the Reformation, and notably John Calvin, defended interest under certain conditions. The last...
To do so, he argues in the current issue of Union's Quarterly Review, is to fall into the ancient heresy of Docetism, which held that Christ's body was merely a phantom, and to accept the puritanical and wholly unBiblical notion that sex is sinful. "To put...
But Ervin also wanted to know: Why did only 44% of those old enough to vote in 1964 go to the polls in Lyndon Johnson's own Texas? Snapped Katzenbach: "Poll tax." Why did barely more than 50% vote in New York City, where a "literacy test is not...
The Primary Mission. These perennial opponents have been joined by a number of responsible laymen and clerics of the council's member churches who are arguing vigorously that the main business of the clergy is to save souls, and not to transform society. One of them is the Rev...
But all the while he was sayings things that didn't need to be said to Harvard, telling us about the bad and sinful people and the Godly, Loving people, you could feel how immensely stirring he could be in another setting, with a different audience. You could hear his...