Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...whenever The Sign of Taurus stargazes too abstractedly. Author Fifield gives it a powerful tug back to the earthy sights and sounds of the country-and the sheer physical exuberance of the setting gradually converts The Sign of Taurus into a triumph of Mexico over metaphysics...