Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instead look for heavenly intervention to establish the kingdom of God? What did it mean for Jesus to be tempted by sin? When did he realize that his mission would end with death upon a cross? Did he view himself as the promised Messiah? Did he understand himself to be both God and man, and what imponderable struggles of the soul would that have meant for him during his sojourn on earth...
Unfortunately, the implicit assumption of many higher critics is that the Gospels are too complex for the average reader to understand properly, since they mingle fact with myth and imaginative editing. The critics spin out "secret interpretations that no one knows without a Ph.D.," snaps Paul Mickey, a conservative at Duke University. Says Father John Navone of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome: "A kind of intellectualist bias has grown up; unless you are aware of the very latest academic theory about the Bible, you might as well not read it." The result is a dangerous gap between the thinking...
...Judas Iscariot that goes something like this. Judas was a nationalist. Christ wasn't turning out to be the strong military leader that some of his followers had hoped for. These followers Judas among them, expected Christ to lead a successful revolt against the Romans. They did not understand His reluctance to seize temporal power. According to this explanation, Judas betrayed Christ to the Romans in order to force His hand. Judas hoped to trigger a showdown between Christ and Caesar, a showdown that he expected Christ...
...Nora's biography essential for Joycean scholars to understand what was going on inside Joyce's mind when he was writing his masterpiece? Will it inspire in Joyce's admirers a desire to go back and re-read all of his works and give them new meaning? In the words of Nora and Molly...
Bruce Allen Murphy in his gripping biography of this ultimate insider, practitioner and brilliant legal mind attempts to understand how Abe Fortas met such a disastrous finale. The rising young star of the Warren Court and the man groomed to lead liberalism after the great chief justice had retired would suffer a resounding defeat before the Senate during his confirmation hearings on his promotion to the top position in the Court...