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...women of Corinth may have merely been sound advice: Corinth was a mixed community of Jew and Gentile Christians, and Paul probably feared that the more liberated Greek women would offend the Jews if they did not wear veils or spoke up too loudly during services. Jewish Theologian Richard L. Rubenstein, in a new book, My Brother Paul, admits that Paul's theology is pointedly masculine for much of its course, but sees a feminine image in Paul's vision of the "restoration of all things" in Christ at the end of time. That restoration culminates...
...resurgence of interest in devils at all? Canadian Theologian Kenneth Hamilton blames demythologized religion. "Liberal Protestantism excluded anything that couldn't be explained. But you can't have religious faith without the existence of a world transcending this one. People are starved of anything transcendent, and they have gone to the oldest and crudest superstitions." Evangelist Billy Graham says that Satanism is on the rise because belief in Jesus is growing. "The devil," asserts Graham, "is also making his pitch...
Whatever the lasting strength of the new interest, few proponents of the devils' existence are likely to want to return to the witch hunts of other ages, or to a frequent use of bell, book and candle exorcisms. As British Author-Theologian C.S. Lewis wrote in 1941: "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors, and hail a materialist...
...There is nothing in exobiology or any other real science that should throw any Catholic theologian into a tizzy...
...name stuck, and the battle was rejoined. Another German researcher, Gotthold Lessing, advanced the idea that a lost Aramaic gospel had been the source for the evangelists' texts in Greek. Theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher suggested the existence of a lost collection of Jesus' sayings that he called the Logia. In the mid-19th century, Heidelberg's Heinrich Holtzmann synthesized the two ideas, proposing that both a protoGospel and an early, now lost collection of Jesus' sayings lay behind the Synoptic Gospels. The Holtzmann theory was crystallized in 1924 by Britain's B.H. Streeter-with an important...