Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that situation is no more startling than its parallel paradox: the casting of doubt on such formidable Christian doctrines as Original Sin and the Virgin Birth, on the Trinity and the Resurrection, has made many men consider - or reconsider - them not with scorn but with respect, not with contempt but with intellectual curiosity...
...generation ago, a church goer who admitted to doubts about the Virgin Birth, say, would be clearly stamped among his fellows as a disciple of some such flaming modernist as Harry Elmer Barnes at best, or of Agnostic Robert Ingersoll at worst. In the fidelistic mood of the postwar religious revival, questioning was largely out of place - not because people had no doubts, but be cause they were willing to take the church and its teachings as a whole...
From another viewpoint, some radical Christian thinkers shrug off Pike's intellectual wrestling with doctrine as simply uninteresting. "The younger men don't even raise the issue of the Virgin...
...mysterious awareness of who Christ was and what he signified. Thus his post-Resurrection appearances to his discipies may have been, in a sense, apparitions of an extraordinarily magnetic and convincing kind. Pike accepts the Resurrection, interpreted this way, as evidence for his faith in eternal life. Like the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection may well be a mysterious event, understandable only to the eye of faith and not historically verifiable in the way that Jesus' death on the cross can be authenticated. Nonetheless, theologians insist that the Resurrection has a profound, inexhaustible meaning for man. To Harvey...
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. The Lord himself, therefore, will give you a sign. It is this: the maiden is with child and will soon give birth to a son whom she will call Immanuel...