Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jurists was founded in 1952 when a group of lawyers met in West Berlin to probe East German violations of "the rule of law." With remarkable consensus, jurists from quite different countries agreed that the phrase means certain bedrock basics of justice, such as freedom of speech, press, worship, assembly and equal protection of the laws. Warning that "the state exists to serve man," the commission has needled authoritarian governments ever since...
...number of clerics point out that parents who bring their children forward for christening display a dormant faith. Many a mother, after dressing down a vicar who was reluctant to baprtize little Alfred because he would be brought up in an un-Christian family, has returned to Sunday worship after her child entered the church. Now that the issue has been raised, most Anglican priests hope that some clarifying guidance will come from this month's church convocations...
...Pentecost. The spirit of Christian renewal in 1964 is searching, questioning, critical-willing to challenge every doctrine and institution of the church. If worship may perhaps be better expressed by folk singing, modern dance or drama, the churches are ready to try. Yet a considerable body of Protestant and Catholic radicals, ranging from bishops to informed laymen and seminarians, believe that the present vitality of Christianity is simply a kind of spiritual Indian summer. Convinced that most of the structures of the church have outlived their usefulness, many of these all-out reformers want a new Pentecost-"a return...
Changed Rhythm. According to Princeton Theologian M. Richard Schaull, worship ought to be "an expression in symbol and sacrament of what God is doing to make human life human." Many clergymen, and laymen too, question whether existing patterns of worship are suited to the church of the future. The long weekend and the five-day week have already changed the rhythm of life that made Sunday morning the natural time to pay homage to God. In the 21st century, liturgies may be celebrated-as they were in the early church-in homes or places of work, and rarely...
Even more archaic than the form of Christian worship is its language. Says the Rev. Robert Raines, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Germantown, Pa.: "Liturgy is an expression in language of our life before God. We have hymns of the four seasons, of the earth, the sky and rural life. But how many hymns are there about God in the factories? In the city slums? We are living on hymns that are an articulation of life in another term...