Word: sinner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Convenience for Kings. Lepp points out that many priests sympathetically but hypocritically give absolution and Communion to a divorced Catholic who lives with a mistress or girl friend; yet the moment the sinner tries to regularize the relationship by remarrying outside the church, he becomes a spiritual outcast. Lepp also argues that in its early years the church found it convenient to dissolve the marriages of powerful lords and kings. Church historians concede that such annulments were often granted on tenuous grounds, and that the current strict attitude to divorce did not begin to take shape until the 12th century...
Foreman is worth every carat. Recently he took on a Houston father who had gunned down his stepdaughter's teen-age lover in plain view of witnesses. Foreman excoriated the dead sinner, hauled a church pulpit in front of the jury, delivered a sermon on teen-age vice, and tearfully recited a Sir Walter Scott poem about "pious fathers." The father was acquitted...
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. Give some playwrights a stage and they turn it into a combination lecture platform and thundering pulpit. Scarcely bothering to dramatize their themes, they simply harangue the playgoer as if he were a retarded child or a calloused sinner...
...fate. This mentality is impervious to the tragic sense, the view of existence best expressed by Ortega y Gasset when he said: "The condition of man is essential uncertainty. Man feels himself lost, shipwrecked." Nor can Sartre, as an atheist, accept the dispensation of Christian grace, which redeems the sinner without denying the sin. In Sartre's world, the problem of evil is as shallow as Narcissus' pool. The self accuses, judges, justifies and condemns the self...
...measles epidemic. Maugham added a tropical rain season to the measles, and made the confrontation of missionary and whore into a classic contest between righteousness and sin. What man (or clergyman) has not felt the visceral taint of the sensual in his ostensibly selfless concern for a pretty sinner's soul...