Word: testament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Double Life. At Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Baptist Butt specialized in the Bible and business administration, after graduation put in a year at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary studying New Testament, social ethics, preaching. Then, convinced that the ministry was not for him, he married and went to work in the family's business. But invitations to speak came to him more and more often. Billy Graham asked him to help out at several of his revivals, and before long, young Howard found himself living a kind of Christian double life...
...will it happen-and when? The Judaism of the Old Testament contains three different concepts of the world's end: 1) God's destruction of the universe, 2) God's destruction of the universe, preserving some or all men for later judgment, 3) God's ending of the earthly order of things in history and the establishment of His kingdom on earth...
According to the New Testament-and the classic creeds-Christ, who has already come, will return a second time "to judge both the quick and the dead." The earliest Christians seem to have expected Christ's Second Coming and the end of the world as something that was just around the corner...
Despite this, he kept up a brisk intellectual life, and turned out an impressive body of letters and articles ranging from theology to musical criticism. He also worked on a new translation of the Old Testament into German. He received visitors, entertained dinner guests, and displayed a quiet courage. At 43 he died, still a confident...
Cadbury, who is the ranking professor of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in academic seniority, is one of the country's leading authorities on the New Testament and Quaker History. He is the former chairman of the American Friends' Service Committee, and in 1947 received the Nobel Peace Prize. His resignation will mark the end of a half century of teaching...