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...eyes of many Catholics has been confused and endangered by all the liberal theological theorizing since Vatican II. In the effort to define clearly what is and is not Catholic doctrine, the isolation of Kung is particularly important because he has publicly questioned or denied outright the creed that Christ is eternally "one in substance" with God the Father, the belief that the church is based on an apostolic succession that goes back to St. Peter and the sacrificial nature of the Mass. Küng's doubts are influential, as several of his books have become bestsellers...
...Word became flesh," says John's Gospel of the incarnate Christ of Bethlehem. In Christmas sermons before some 75 million Americans this week, words about Christ will become flesh in the person of the preacher. Through their strange and marvelous craft, Christianity has been transmitted and reshaped for every age since Christ himself went "preaching the Gospel of the kingdom...
Gardner C. Taylor, 60, Concord Baptist Church of Christ, Brooklyn, N.Y. "He has a voice that sounds like God," an admiring fellow preacher says of Taylor. To anyone who has listened to a Taylor sermon, the judgment does not seem far off target. Taylor's voice is deep and apparently inexhaustible. Working variations on a biblical theme ("Create in me a clean heart, O God"), he artfully circles around his subject, now lulling the listeners into serenity, now rising to majestic sincerity in stately cadences that overwhelm as much with their sound as with their meaning. Taylor says that...
Delivered as straight monologue, Sheen's message was an odd period mix of common sense and Christian ethics. "America is suffering from tolerance," he would proclaim, "tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, Christ and chaos." Or, "Freedom is the right to do what you ought to do." He did not hesitate to take on the likes of Darwin, Marx and Satan, not to mention Sigmund Freud. He once parodied the prayer of a modern Pharisee: "I thank thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me that there is no such thing as guilt...
...grimmer sense of history seemed to run his way again. One of Sheen's basic messages was against self-indulgence. He told Americans that the Antichrist would come, "talking of peace, prosperity and plenty." Modern man, he insisted, seeks promises of salvation without a cross, wants a "Christ without his nails." Then the bishop would thunder: "There is no pleasure without pain, no Easter without Good Friday... God love...