Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should at the beginning of his career have thought of the irrational aspects of-the human personality as chaotic and potentially dangerous powers ... It did not occur to him that chaos in itself may represent a very positive and fertile current of life. For the people of the Old Testament, especially in the creation story, the question was not: 'Why is there chaos?' but rather: 'Why is there order?' For them, order was the outgrowth of daily living . . . The unique function of man, in their view, is to live in close, creative touch with chaos, and thereby experience the birth...
Hard-Boiled Self-Sacrifice. Gandhi, who grew up in Jain-strong western India, was particularly influenced by Jainism. But in perfecting the strategy that peacefully defeated Britain in India, Gandhi drew heavily on the New Testament, which awakened him to "the Tightness and value of passive resistance." Gandhi's conviction was further bolstered by Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You and Thoreau's famed essay Civil Disobedience, both written by men who made celebrated attempts to carry out nonviolence. What emerged in Gandhi was a hard-boiled idea that sacrificing oneself is ultimately more...
...challenge the miracles of religion. But in these early years of the Space Age, physics and metaphysics sometimes try to get into each other's act. The current issue of the magazine Analog Science Fact-Fiction, for instance, contains a 16-page attempt to prove that Old Testament Ezekiel's famed vision of the wheel may not have been a vision at all but a "careful, truthful and self-possessed" report of an earth probe by extra-terrestrial beings...
...plot is self-consciously biblical (Steinbeck gives Old Testament names to almost every one of his characters), and it is peopled with stereotypes (the gruff-but-kindly sheriff the shrewd-but-kindly businessman, and even the wicked-and-abandoned-but-kindly prostitute. The structure is as simple and as unenticing: hostile, alienated, confused James Dean battles a pacifist, puritanical brother for the blessing of the patriarchal father (Raymond Massey) and the affections of the brother's girl (Julie Harris). It's a wonder the film has any merit...
...spiritual and satisfying until a skeptic begins to think of all the administration involved." Perhaps Kennedy and others would like to study the scriptural system in use by Churches of Christ (not United). Each congregation is self-governing, under its own group of bishops (elders), just as in New Testament times. It should be the constant prayer of all Christians that the unity of Christ's church be upheld: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism . . ."* Our present pluralism is not only weakness but unscriptural...