Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most seminaries have reached a consensus on curriculum: plenty of theology and a minimum of how-to courses (although Chicago's famed Moody Bible Institute still offers a two-year "pre-aviation" course for flying missionaries). The trend now is to systematic theology, Biblical criticism, New and Old Testament languages-and to a study of the most vital ideas found in modern secular thought. Princeton's Dr. Hugh Kerr uses jazz recordings and slides of modern art in his classroom discussions of religious symbolism. "There is no sense in showing a seminarian how to hold a baby...
...Maycomb County she obviously meant the South. Of what was fearful she framed an Alabama melodrama that etched its issues in black and white. Of what was lovable, on the other hand, she made a tomboy poem as full of hick fun as Huck Finn, a sensitive feminine testament to the Great American Childhood. In this film Director Robert Mulligan and Scenarist Horton Foote have translated both testament and melodrama into one of the year's most fetching and affecting pictures...
Since there is no explicit New Testament authorization for it, the churches celebrate neither Easter nor Christmas, have neither bishops, presbyters nor any central authority. Each congregation is autonomous, and ministers govern with the help of lay elders, seldom let anyone call them anything but mister...
...Churches of Christ trace their founding back to the first Pentecost. Historians generally date the origin of the churches from 1809, when the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a dissident Presbyterian minister from western Pennsylvania, founded a new "Christian Association" to bring the church back to the practices of New Testament times. The Campbellites eventually split into liberal and conservative camps over such issues as the right of pastors to use the title reverend and the introduction of organ music in church services. In 1906 the conservatives reported separately in a U.S. religious census as members of the Churches of Christ...
...Called. The existential dilemma of the modern Jew, Cohen believes, is that he is both "a creature situated in nature and activated by history" who by the fact of revelation also belongs to a supernatural community-the Old Testament's Chosen People: "God has covenanted with the Jewish people that it shall transcend nature and history to Him alone . . . Without the belief that God has called the Jew to Himself, to call oneself a Jew is but a half-truth...