Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even once restless Yoshio Kodaira, who last year was convicted of raping 40 women and murdering eight, seemed to have caught the general spirit. "I am fortunate," he said as he marched to the gallows last week, "to be able to die on such a calm and peaceful...
...says Barth, is not, as generally thought, an easily accepted article of the Creed on which "Christians, Jews and Gentiles, believers and unbelievers ... to some extent stand together." God as Creator is a mystery as difficult of comprehension as the belief that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. "The existence of the creature alongside God is the great puzzle and miracle ... It is the genuine question about existence, which is essentially and fundamentally distinguished from the question which rests upon error, 'Is there a God?' That there is a world...
...Fresh Spirit. The Church, says Barth, will die and petrify if it does not proclaim the Good News. Christians have been told to "Go out and preach the Gospel!" The injunction is not " 'Go and celebrate services!' 'Go and edify yourselves with the sermon!' 'Go and celebrate the Sacraments!' 'Go and present yourselves in a liturgy, which perhaps repeats the heavenly liturgy!' 'Go and devise a theology which may gloriously unfold like the Summa of St. Thomas!' Of course, there is nothing to forbid all this; there may exist very...
...rule it begins to smack of the 'sacred,' to affect piety, to play the priest and to mumble. Anyone with a keen nose will smell it and find it dreadful! Christianity is not 'sacred'; rather, there breathes in it the fresh air of the Spirit. Otherwise it is not Christianity. For it is an out & out 'worldly' thing, open to all humanity: 'Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature...
...four about the West, takes up where The Big Sky left off. Basically it is the familiar story of a wagon train moving west from Missouri to Oregon, but with differences that the jaded reader of historical fiction will be quick to appreciate. In all the body-torturing, spirit-testing haul from Independence to the Willamette, there is not one Indian attack, not a single war whoop or flaming arrow, not one hot-blooded, devil-may-care hero to turn in an impossible rescue, not even a big-breasted heartbreaker in low-cut linsey woolsey to take strong nation-makers...