Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imply that the Jews were guilty of deicide. This declaration was bitterly opposed by Catholic bishops from the Middle East, who share the anti-Israel feelings of their Moslem neighbors, and by many European conservatives, who argued that Bea's text ran counter to what the New Testament plainly says...
...revised statement on anti-Semitism still warns that Jews should not be regarded as "an accursed people" and acknowledges Christianity's roots in the faith of the Old Testament. But instead of clearing the Jews of deicide, it says that sermons and catechisms should "refrain from accusing the Jews of our times of what was perpetrated during the Passion of Christ." The declaration also prays for the conversion of the Jews to Christianity, and has been expanded to include a word of good will for other non-Christian faiths, notably Islam...
...Pelikan argues that Mary cannot be ignored because she is the "warrant for the Christian declaration that our Lord was a true man, flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone." She also has a significance for the church: "the brief description of her career in the New Testament is a summary of the Christian life in its elations and in its depressions." Dr. Albert Outler of Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, a Methodist observer at the Vatican Council, agrees that "we've got to take seriously the whole idea of the maternal dimension of Christianity. Protestantism...
...Catholic scholars point out that any Protestant Mariology would have to be subordinated to the doctrine of Christ and closely tied to the New Testament witness. Thus the emerging Protestant interpretation of Mary is considerably more modest than her exalted place in Catholic teaching. Nonetheless, says Chicago's Sittler, Mary may be "a center from which we could penetrate one another's thoughts," since Rome is in the midst of a Marian reconsideration all its own. Recent Popes have warned against excessive devotion to Mary that obscures the uniqueness of Christ, and many Catholic thinkers are earnestly seeking...
...Mindful of the fact that you live in an agricultural country," rumbled Cushing, "I presume you know what an ass is. We read in the New Testament that our blessed Lord rode on an ass in triumph into the city of Jerusalem. Today the Lord rides on another ass: I myself...