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Virginal Conception. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke state that Mary was a virgin and that Jesus was conceived miraculously without a human father. This belief is also included in the ancient creeds, and traditional Christians insist upon it. Some liberal Catholic scholars, however, increasingly follow liberal Protestant thinkers and...
Perpetual Virginity. A Catholic and Orthodox tradition 15 centuries old holds that Mary was ever virgin, meaning that she and Joseph never had sex and that the "brothers" of Jesus mentioned in the Bible were cousins. This idea consolidated the tradition of celibacy for priests and nuns. Protestants reject the...
The greatest open rivalry was between the politically liberal Anderson and the conservative Jacobsen. Anderson, along with Jenco, tweaked Jacobsen, an Episcopalian, about controversial passages in the Bible, particularly scriptures dealing with homosexuality. Jenco recalls that Jacobsen, in turn, often sabotaged Anderson's attempts to elicit new information from their...
But as the court became increasingly concerned about government support for religious expression, opponents began speaking up. It was one thing to outlaw state-written prayers, they said, but what about a moment of silence? Perhaps reading the Bible as part of a morning devotional was inappropriate, but what about...
But on the other hand, when fifth-grader Monette Rethford, in Norman, Okla., is told that she cannot get together with other students on school property to pray or read the Bible, it looks very much like a restriction of her freedom to worship. To publicize their own fervor, tens...