Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only in Darien but all across the country, and indeed the world, that old-time religion is being recycled with ever increasing zeal. Countless people like Lee Buck were brought up to think that revivalism is the province of faith healers, holy rollers and counterfeit preachers?a thing of bad taste, or bad theology, or both ?and just possibly a sign of simple-mindedness or galloping hypocrisy as well. Yet there they are today, down on their knees at prayer meetings. They are pursuing the word day by day instead of settling for the sudden thrill of religion only...
...Whitefield hit Philadelphia in 1739, Freethinker Ben Franklin figured his open-air congregation at 30,000 and marveled: "It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. It seemed as if all the world were growing religious." But the social consequences of religious zeal were more dramatic during the "Second Awakening," which took place more than half a century later. The network of organizations then created became known as the "Evangelical Empire." Passionate and practical reformist crusading by Lawyer-Preacher Charles G. Finney and his allies helped produce the early feminist movement, the Civil...
...balance of power in U.S. Protestantism, is what they will do collectively with this passionate sense of God's presence in everyday life. Mainstream Protestantism, though dutifully devoted to social reform, often seems drained of vitality. For years it undervalued a notable Evangelical asset, the kind of religious zeal that causes embarrassment but might work miracles. One critic of the Evangelicals. Activist Preacher William Sloane Coffin Jr., of New York City's Riverside Church, ruefully tells the story of the Evangelical who said. "You could ice skate down the center aisle of any New England church on Sunday morning." Concedes...
Bearded, blue-jeaned and barrel-chested, Alexander pursues his work with a zeal worthy of the Grand Inquisitor. Like his two assistants, he was involved in the hippie movement, then found Jesus and set up a mission in the Haight-Ashbury wilderness. "We told the protesters that they were fundamentally right in their critique of society but that their answers were inadequate." He was accused of being a fascist, or a pawn...
...West Germany is not a special case in its pursuit of materialism; it has simply pursued the goal of affluence for a majority of its populace more successfully than its near neighbors. Moreover, acknowledging the zeal (however misplaced) of idealists is one thing; quite another is accepting, at face value, the radical claims of a violent adventurist movement with no moral vision beyond Götterdämmerung. West Germans somehow ought to be assured that the world will not think badly of them for interfering with the work of those who wish to destroy them. - Lance Morrow