Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BORGIA TESTAMENT (312 pp.)-Nigel Balchin-Houghton Mifflin...
Dreamy Lad. British Novelist Nigel Balchin (The Small Back Room; Mine Own Executioner) doesn't know all the answers, and doesn't much care. In Borgia Testament, which pretends to be an "autobiography" written by Cesare shortly before his death, Novelist Balchin is mainly interested in trotting out a brand-new explanation of Cesare's willful ways. In Balchin's view, Cesare was a man of vision, born before his time, who hoped to do what Garibaldi finally accomplished-unite all Italy...
Willie Gallacher, one of the two Communist members of the House, called this "evil, lying, propaganda" and quoted the New Testament in support of his case. He blamed the stoning of Stephen and the crucifixion of Christ on what he called "the attorney generals" of that day. David Gilbert Logan of Liverpool interrupted to assert that the persecutors of Christ and Stephen were "proper Communist gangs." Outraged members wanted to shut off Willie's blasphemy, but the speaker ruled regretfully: "I do not think there is any rule which makes it out of order, but I must...
...Archbishop of Canterbury wagged a stern finger at politicians. "Stick to the sober truth in speeches," he advised. "The temptation at election times is to overstate or even misstate the case . . ." He frowned on political talks which use quotations from the New Testament, "especially the words of Our Lord." Chances are that "words will be misapplied and their spiritual meaning distorted. In any case, there is the suggestion of trying to turn Scripture to party uses...
...French Equatorial Africa are a bright highlight in the relations between the white race and the black. He is a philosopher who, like Spengler and Toynbee, has thought deeply about the crisis of Western culture. He is a Protestant minister and biblical scholar whose historical criticism of the New Testament, early in this century, turned out to be a theological blockbuster. Above all, he is a man who decided to turn his back on the dazzling rewards the world wanted to give him in order to serve his fellow...