Word: antichrist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of a new order lying in the future assumes the Marxist or Nazi forms, for example, the power of the true new age is confused with elements of the old, and we witness the demonic power of all idolatrous thought. The New Testament conception of the Antichrist--a false messiah of this world pretending to power of the world to come--is here relevant. In the lectures we are attempting to understand our age in terms of New Testament faith. The idea of purposive change, basic to science, derives its moving force from the Christian doctrine of the Kingdom...
...question: What is the destiny of man?--and therefore, What are the absolutes on which life is to be based? The coming of Christ was the coming of an absolute, which men must accept, or find another. The new world civilization must eventually center itself around Christ or Antichrist. And interpreting from the New Testament, there is hope that Christ will be the center. Pat Henry...
...first Horseman cannot be War. His horse is white, he is crowned, he goes forth with a bow to conquer. He is Antichrist...
...also repeats, in milder form, Nietzsche's moral and psychological critique and traces as deftly as the vehement Antichrist himself the subtle ways in which humility and self-effacement can be poisoned with unconscious resentment and servility, pious altruism functioning as the cloak for ferocious resentment and hate. (Members of the Harvard religious community who think that this element has altogether vanished from sophisticated contemporary Christianity were obviously not listening to the responsive reading they recited during a recent service in Memorial Church: "...Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed...
Beyond the War. The howling wind of Hitler and Hitler's war blows the friendly enemies apart. When the two men meet just before war's end, both are less doctrinaire, though the pastor has been clapped into prison for calling Hitler the Antichrist. Convinced that postwar Germany will most need men like the pastor, the psychiatrist lays down his life so that the pastor may live. In humility, the pastor tacitly acknowledges this sacrifice as the act of a greater Christian than himself...