Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to the New Testament and according to the facts of history, there is nothing in the Christian religion which guarantees the permanence of any civilization. Rather, according to the New Testament, not only are all civilizations under the judgment of doom, but the world itself must come...
...Manning says that the action of the two bishops . . . 'shows complete disregard for the Christian teaching as to marriage.' How can Dr. Manning be so sure as to what the Christian teaching is? The best modern New Testament scholars are far from agreement. And there are millions of Christian clergymen in all Protestant churches who disagree in toto with Bishop Manning. A little more scholarship and a little less weeping would be more wholesome...
...Christians must confess their sins. Confession is recommended by the Old Testament (Psalms 32 and Proverbs 28), and is practiced in most churches as well as in all synagogues. But there is a wide difference of opinion on the manner of confessing and on what should be confessed. Most Protestants and Jews confess their specific sins privately to God and are absolved publicly by means of liturgical formula. Roman Catholics and some Anglicans confess their sins, at regular intervals, to a priest...
Ernest Cadman Colwell, President of the University of Chicago, former Dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School and author of religious books. Doctor of Divinity. Citation: "New Testament scholar of distinction, able executive and leader of the faculties, the president of a university of world renown...
Terror & Comfort. Lewis throws British understatement to the winds in praise of Macdonald's religious wisdom: "I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. . . . Nowhere else outside the New Testament have I found terror and comfort so intertwined...