Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerics like to have laymen do their preaching for them. Columnist Johnson was soon under a ministerial barrage of counter-citation. His critics charged: 1) that "you can prove anything you want to prove by the Bible"; 2) that he had plucked his texts from the militaristic Old Testament and glossed over the New; 3) that he had skipped the Old Testament's direst precedent against registration-II Samuel XXIV, wherein King David ordered a military census. It showed a count of 1,300,000 "valiant men that drew the sword" but the Lord, wroth at David, punished...
From the Seminary, neighbor of Union Theological Seminary, have graduated, since 1886, some 300 rabbis. There today candidates still spend four or five years studying the Old Testament and the Talmud, Hebrew literature, theology, homiletics. All rabbis know Hebrew, though English is now used for many services...
...surprise by declaring, "There was never truer friendship between North American and Latin-American peoples. We Mexicans feel great current cordiality, sympathy and profound friendship uniting us. We must fight fascism to the death and preserve democracy." Amused at his sudden conversion, the Mexican press dubbed it his "new testament." Observers wondered to what extent this change of heart reflected the always queer relations of Moscow and Berlin...
...book is an examination, chiefly through the Old Testament prophets and the parables of Jesus, of the roots of religion, individualism, science, human conduct, human hope. It is the work of a stonily independent amateur thinker. Winston Churchill is convinced that certain of the prophets, notably Isaiah (a collaboration) and Jesus (if he existed), had hold of a form of science, psychology and self-knowledge which all religions, including Christianity, have repudiated, and which science itself rather scorns than endorses...
Ernest Sutherland Bates finished his book last December, less than an hour before he died. It is the appropriate testament of a man who made his scholarship useful (as editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, The Bible Designed to be Read as Living Literature). Badly titled, American Faith bears no resemblance whatever to a Fourth of July oration. It is the best layman's history of U. S. Protestantism yet published; it is also an illuminating interpretation of early U. S. democracy. Its thesis: "Democracy did not arise out of 18th Century political and industrial conflicts...