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...Evangelical movement is a quest for traditional faith and values, and so for our cover the editors decided on an American primitive painting, Christ's Sermon on the Mount, by an artist known only as Plattenberger. Painted in the mid-19th century, the picture now hangs in the family room of a Woodbury, Conn., doctor. It was placed there, says the owner, so that the children of the household could see Christ's admonishing gesture, and behave...
After the Civil War, Southern Evangelicalism was battered by defeat and a sense of hopelessness. Much of the Northern wing turned to premillennialism, the belief that Christ's return was imminent and that society would inevitably get worse before it occurred. By the late 1800s, the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody literally preached a lifeboat ethic: "I look on the world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Save all you can.' " Biblical conservatives withdrew from activism. Evangelical Historian Timothy Smith describes this as the "Great Reversal," which persists to the present day. White Evangelical...
...from Episcopalians to nearly a million Roman Catholics, to oddball healers and assorted tent preachers. Most Evangelicals, though, are basically conventional Protestants who hold staunchly to the authority of the Bible in all matters and adhere to orthodox Christian doctrine. They believe in making a conscious personal commitment to Christ, a spiritual encounter, gradual or instantaneous, known as the born-again experience...
...Hanukkah, so any reasonable person will prefer Christmas. The holiday generates a lot of warmth, and besides, it's been totally secularized (to the chagrin of many Christians); so why not choose Christmas? Well, it never occured to me that Christmas was mine to choose. The birth of Jesus Christ, Savior, Son of God--I'm not sure, but he doesn't look Jewish...
Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ (Mezzo Janet Baker, Tenor Eric Tappy, Baritone Thomas Allen, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). Just as he could roar thunderously in the Te Deum, so Berlioz could write with reverent calm in this exquisite tapestry on the early events in Jesus' life. The music is kept deliberately simple by a chamberistic use of the orchestra and frequent resort to medieval modes and other archaic devices. Yet how fresh, urgent and devoted the result, notably in the central section-The Flight into Egypt. Continuing his pioneering Berlioz cycle, Colin Davis...