Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philadelphia Contractor John B. Kelly Sr., who died last month at 70, left a self-drawn last will and testament just as fabulous and full of fun as most of his life. Happy Jack Kelly, up from hod carrying to become a millionaire and father of a Princess, wanted no squabbling over his estate. All his legatees knew in advance exactly what he meant to leave them. With that matter out of the way, Kelly sat down and penned words of wit and wisdom. To his sons-in-law (including Monaco's Prince Rainier), he left nary a penny...
July 31, Professor Krister Stendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, Harvard Divinity School...
...Story of Ruth (Samuel 6. Engel; 20th Century-Fox) is that rare film, a Bible story done with taste and without lions. It is true that if Writer Norman Corwin has not actually jazzed up the Old Testament's four brief chapters, he has at least given them a recognizable beat-here a child sacrificed to a flame-bellied god, there a few slaves squashed by a toppling idol. But the liberties are taken with considerable skill, and most of them make entertainingly dramatic sense. The Bible says nothing about the origins of the young Moabite widow who tells...
...Jesuit William Lynch in his book Christ and Apollo illustrates the perpetual tug of war within Christianity between the Old Testament and the New. When he stresses the importance of facing up to the world -reaching the infinite through the finite-he is following the message of the prophets of Israel to whom justice on earth was the way of God. When he derides "do-it-yourself" salvation, however, he is grinding the theological ax of faith v. works, which marks the dividing point between Judaism and Christianity...
...early Church proclaimed its faith in the saving power of Christ. For instance: what is essential is not whether Jesus really healed the blind man, but that in this miracle the early Church believed, and proclaimed, that Jesus now heals the blind eyes of men through faith. The New Testament announces the activity of the glorified Christ in the Church, rather than simply the past deeds of Jesus on earth...