Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Empty Jar. Gnostic thought existed long before Christ, but it adapted itself so well to Christianity that the subtlest and toughest Christian minds worked overtime to combat its combination of mystery, myth and spiritual snob appeal. When orthodox Christianity triumphed at last, the writings of the Gnostics were suppressed so thoroughly that most present-day knowledge of Gnosticism relies on the anti-Gnostic polemics of the fathers. The Thomas Gospel will widen knowledge-and speculation-about Gnostic doctrine...
What is the meaning of Jesus' well-known words about children and the King dom of Heaven? In a cryptic "saying," the Gospel of Thomas seems to suggest that it has something to do with psychological unity: Jesus saw children who were being suckled. He said to his disciples: These children who are being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom. They said to Him: Shall we then, being children, enter the Kingdom? Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner...
Christians will treasure many of these sayings for their restatements of familiar themes (It is impossible for a man to mount two horses and to stretch two bows, and it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters), as well as for their beauty and ring: Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I guard it until the world is afire...
Rosy Future. Backed by his well-heeled trustees, Gus Turbeville tripled Northland's budget to $600,000 a year, doubled enrollment to 350, is raising $3,000,000 for new dormitories. The school is now fully accredited; its seniors score in the top 30% in nationwide Educational Testing Service achievement tests. By next year, salaries for the school's 30 teachers will have nearly doubled to a $7,000 maximum. To Theologian Harmon Bro, formerly of Syracuse University and a onetime Northland student, the Turbeville treatment is "a reincarnation." Bro has left Syracuse to teach at Northland...
...C.E.E.B.'s objective-question tests, the chief divining rod for admission to 287 U.S. colleges and universities. With some misgivings, the meeting finally approved Dean Wilson's urgent proposal. Result: next year, after a decade of multiple-choice questions, the famed "College Boards" will require words as well...