Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Catholic Church is notoriously chary of permitting prayer with non-Catholics; so are conservative Protestants such as the Missouri Synod Lutherans (membership: 2,387,292). At a Lutheran conference on doctrinal unity in Thiensville, Wis. last week, the Rev. Martin H. Franzmann, professor of New Testament interpretation at the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary, warned against closing the door entirely to joint praying: "May we not, by too facile and too simple a ruling concerning joint prayer, become guilty of crushing the bruised reed and quenching the smoldering wick, by making the names 'Confessional...
...some Reform congregations have little to distinguish them from Unitarians. Existentialism, with its distrust of reason and its emphasis on the irrational and emotional nature of man's fear-filled, striving experience of life, points Jews as well as Christians back to the intangibles of the Old Testament, where religion has little to do with peace of mind or making the world a better place to live...
...fact that religion is "not all 'green pastures' and 'still waters'" is clear to "any serious reader of the Bible." Nowhere is the existentialism of the Old Testament better demonstrated than in the Book of Job. Job dares to demand of God an explanation of evil; his "comforters" put forward their rational arguments, and at the end Job-without an explanation, but with the existential experience of God-turns from questioning to wondering silence: "I will lay mine hand upon my mouth...
...ancient city whose inhabitants, according to the Book of Joshua, made a deal with the invading Israelites and so were not slaughtered, only enslaved. For four years, Professor James B. Pritchard of Church Divinity School of the Pacific, whose passion is checking the historical accuracy of the Old Testament, dug at el-Jib. He found many interesting things, including the pool of Gibeon, a well where the men of David fought the men of Saul.* He proved by inscriptions that the town had been called Gibeon. But he did not prove that this Gibeon was old enough to have been...
...Story of Ruth. The Old Testament's four brief chapters are souped up, padded out, and somehow made into a movie that is commendably unepic...