Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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3) NOT BANNED, NOT PLAYED: Recanting for the sins of his Ninth Symphony, ___ said: "Some write music for their own pleasure. I write to serve the nation."
To this formidable view, a British monk called Pelagius† took flat exception. Augustine's austere teachings, he felt, would inevitably lead man into a fatal moral apathy. Instead, he argued that all men have the free will to earn their own salvation by good works. Grace, said Pelagius...
The Christian Error. "We should like to present three propositions, the first of which applies to both Protestants and Catholics, the second to Catholics, and the third to Protestants. The first proposition is that there is an unfortunate inclination in the human heart, which Christians should, but have not, mastered...
"This inclination to find the root of all evil in the sins of the other and not in those of the self is as wrong as it is natural. There ought, however, to be some resource in the Christian church to counteract it; for the Christian faith insists that the...
Ex-Premier Hideki Tojo, still on trial as a war criminal, got a rather wistful new name, now that he had junked Shintoism for Buddhism. The name, to be chiseled on his tombstone: Eishoin Shakuji Komyoro Koji. Approximate English translation: "By Buddha's grace, all sins committed while living...