Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start with, says Flexner, "he read the few books about art available to him, with all the concentration of a virgin deep in tales of love." The books were not much help, so Copley went counter to the conventions and painted as photographically as he knew how. Gradually he evolved a useful and straightforward theory of his own; he concluded that his paintings were "almost always good in proportion to the time I give them, provided I have a subject that is picturesque...
...views of Bishop Barnes are not new or unique within the Church of England. In Doctrine in the Church of England, the Report of the Commission on Christian Doctrine appointed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in 1922, both the view that belief in the actual historical Virgin Birth is a necessity and that "the historical Incarnation is more consistent with the supposition that our Lord's birth took place under the normal conditions of human generation" are stated as being held in the Church of England. The Report concludes: "We also recognize that both the views outlined...
...Bishop of Birmingham had investigated the genetic possibilities of the "Virgin Birth," he would have found that the development of the unfertilized eggs of mammals, including man, could have produced only female progeny...
...Virgin Birth: "A crude, semipagan story. . .. Biological research seems to indicate that a human virgin birth may be proved to be possible. Among the insects, reproduction from unfertilized egg-cells is common. . . . However, if biological research should show that in humanity a virgin birth could take place, and that therefore the 'miracle' of the Virgin Birth of Jesus was not impossible, those who now regard the miracle as essential to the Christian faith would feel disquieted. It would be asked why the Son of God should be born in a manner common among the insects, rather than...
...overhead, and in the shabby cobbled street, flanked on each side by one-story stucco houses, all built on stilts, one saw only the waving uncorked bottles-beer bottles, whiskey bottles, thermos jugs, casks and demijohns. Some people held up candles, some picture postcards of Padre Antonio, some cheap Virgin Mary medallions...