Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North American Council of the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, which met last January in Atlantic City. Its report argued that "the knowledge explosion, man's seeming self-sufficiency, the 'God is Dead' theology, do not make obsolete the concept of God as Holy Spirit. Rather they reinforce the concept, making it intensely relevant today to Christian witness." The Holy Spirit, in fact, was seen as manifesting himself in such unexpected areas as the increasing number of labor disputes settled by arbitration and even through such folk singers as Bob Dylan who, perhaps unknowingly, proclaims...
...Things New. On the institutional level, this growing concern with what the Rev. Eugene Smith, executive secretary in the U.S. for the World Council of Churches, calls "the Holy Spirit at work in the world," has led to a spate of discussion. In 1964 the meeting of the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches in Frankfurt, Germany, chose as its theme "Come Creator Spirit." Last June the first national ecumenical meeting of Methodists and Roman Catholics in Chicago had the same focus. Smith believes that the "issue will really blow open" at the next meeting of the World Council...
...Holy Spirit has always been a recondite concept. The Old Testament prophets first spoke of ruach, the "breath" or spirit of God, which manifested itself as a wind, or sometimes as fire. The New Testament mentions the Holy Spirit 88 times variously as the "spirit of truth," the bearer of "witness," and the "promise of the Father," but gives no further definition. Not until the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople in the 4th century was Christian Trinitarianism proclaimed: one God in three persons-Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Contemporary religious thinkers do not seek to redefine the Spirit, but rather...
...service. "The public be damned!" was his immortal reply. "We run them because we have to. They don't pay." The modern New York Central has changed its manner, if not its mind. Along with the Central's Twentieth Century and New York-Detroit Wolverine, the venerable Spirit of St. Louis may also be eliminated if the Interstate Commerce Commission approves the request of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which is now more or less set to merge with the Central...
...western Sicily. The Allies were so grateful that they generally selected Mafia members to be mayors of occupied towns, even gifted Vizzini with two large trucks. The Mafia used them to transport food in the biggest black-market operation in the South. Withal, the Allies breathed new life and spirit into the 900-year-old Mafia, the world's oldest and most infamous gang of hoodlums...