Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John expect his readers to accept his heavenly portrayal--and his subsequent spectacular descriptions of the Beast, Armageddon, the Last Judgment and Christ's final triumph--as the literal truth? Most scholars today regard his heaven, at least, as symbolic and mystical, its images painstakingly retrieved from the Old Testament and reorganized to frame an allegorical argument rather than an actual detailed reality of the next world. The same applies to hundreds of other heavenly visions generated by various holy men and women in the next two centuries that were eventually excluded from Scripture but some of which nonetheless exerted...
...19th century, however, heaven had hit a sort of ornamented bankruptcy. The stark vision of the Puritans had given way to what would later be called the Victorian heaven. Here was the humanistic heaven with a vengeance, calmly convinced of its own literal truth but with a spiritual core seemingly provided by House & Garden. Its strongest proponents were not clergy but a new breed of popular novelists like Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, whose 1868 The Gates Ajar, set in heaven, was a runaway best seller through the end of the century. Wrote Phelps of one celestial interlude: "We stopped before...
...happened when abortion-rights lobbyist Ron Fitzsimmons said that there are many more dilation-and-evacuation (D & E) procedures than he had admitted. With the "partial birth" abortion bill coming to the House floor this week for the second time, and with every chance of passage, even partial truth on the subject is elusive...
...truth eludes not just those on the extremes but also those in the middle. Every mother who is pro-choice knows to keep her mouth shut when the subject of late-term abortion comes up. Those of us who have been happily pregnant have pored over the pictures in A Child Is Born, amazed that a creature still months away from filling the Jenny Lind crib in the nursery is so, well, human. We know there's a life's worth of difference between a 20-week-old fetus and a 24-week-old one. A 1991 study shows that...
...ball games and birthday parties, and weary of his lame excuses for going AWOL. Puffing out the candles on his fifth-birthday cake, Fletcher's telephonic explanations for blowing off the event still ringing in his ears, the kid wishes that his father could be forced to tell the truth for 24 hours...