Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under the same roof where another Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, was martyred in 1170 to preserve his church's integrity, Ramsey served notice on the state that he would "ask for a greater freedom in the ordering and in the urgent revising of our forms of worship." In 1928 the House of Commons rejected the established church's request for permission to make changes in its liturgy in order to enforce more liturgical discipline upon clerics whose services ranged from quasi-Roman to semi-Congregational, according to taste. The new Archbishop implied that if the request...
...woman. "If I had a knife, I'd cut your throat off," snarled a burly white tough. The Africans quietly withdrew-for the moment. "We'll be going back to that church every Sunday for the next 50 years," said Chimonyo, "or until we are admitted to worship God like the white...
...most theologians have taken to playing a kind of word game of their own that has no relevance to the needs of ordinary men. For example, Paul Tillich, America's most eminent theologian, talks of God as "Being Itself" or "Ultimate Reality"-a hard kind of God to worship, much less to love...
...symbols and their meaning lies deeper." The result is that "the plain man is bewildered and does not know what to believe, for the theologian has said nothing about God that he can claim, in plain, ordinary language, is true and that presents him as a Being worthy of worship...
...were voiced not in court or in the newspapers, which all tried hard to be broadminded, but in the intellectual pages of Encounter, in which Critic Colin Welch maintained, squarely, that the book advocates a return to some sort of dark, druidical pre-Christianity and the substitution of phallus worship for veneration of the Cross. Similarly. Miller in Cancer proposes a new world based on "the omphalos" (navel) as against an "abstract idea nailed to a cross." Despite the truly epic flow of obscene language, which becomes first dull and then comical, the book's real shock value...