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80: Percentage of people in a recent poll who said the Bible is the most influential book in human history
Recently Weakland has taken time away from work: in 1996 the Juilliard piano graduate toiled on a doctoral dissertation on liturgical chant at Columbia University (leading Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, whose workfare program Weakland had faulted, to snap that the Archbishop should "read his Bible instead of playing piano in...
But the book does more than provide a chuckle. It is Gomes' attempt to contextualize the Bible for modern day life, or what he refers to as "awakening a sense of the divine" in a peculiar mix of Memorial Church's parishioners that includes people who seek biblical wisdom and...
To promote abstinence, therefore, seems the ultimate in naivete. Yet, precisely because sex is so powerful, it must be handled with respect. Sexual intercourse can be a mystical, even sacred experience. Two individuals become completely naked and vulnerable to each other--or, as the Bible puts it, they become "one...
With his voluminous poetry reckoned in, Hugo's effect on French literature exceeded anything short of the Bible itself. Flaubert, Baudelaire, Gautier all stood in his shadow, along with foreigners like Dostoyevsky and Conrad. In the words of English scholar Graham Robb, whose brilliant new biography, Victor Hugo (Norton; 682...