Word: testamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian but a prophet of sweetness & light...
...took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, "which is shed for many for the remission of sins.-Matthew XXVI...
...first Harvard curriculum, soaked with philosophy and New Testament Greek lagged behind the advances of early 17th century continental thought and science. Latin, still Harvard's official language, was not taught. It was merely assumed and commonly used. Scholastic disputations were still in vogue; and in the science of mid 17th Century Massachusetts the earth was still the center of the universe (as was Boston State House in the mid-roth...
...school 45 years, stepping up whenever needed as acting headmaster. He conducts chapel patriarchally. now teaches only English and Bible since Greek went out of style. The latter subject "Pa" Rolfe has made palatable to many a Hill boy with verses he wrote at odd times concerning Old Testament characters. Now published is a collection of these: Songs of Saints and Sinners.* Explains "Pa" Rolfe in a preface: "Those who chance to read them and find them too familiar, or, perhaps, flippant, will please remember that in the thoughts of the present generation these characters wear no halo...
...Swedenborgian academy at Bryn Athyn, Pa." The real basis for the schism lay, not in any hidden meanings within hidden meanings, but rather in the belief that the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg were Divinely inspired and are, in fact, the Word of God, constituting the Third Testament. The schism was in reality an adherence to the views held by the founders of the church, and from which the General Convention had departed. . . . One other item I cannot pass without comment, namely the claiming of Goethe, Wagner, Berlioz, Balzac, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Helen, Henry James...