Word: non-christian
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...their Saviour. Others have wondered. Inspired by the rationalism of the Enlightenment and by the development of scientific historiography, German and French scholars between 1775 and 1900 tried to write "realistic" biographies of Jesus. They stripped the Gospels of miraculous and dogmatic elements, and used new materials gleaned from non-Christian literary sources and from archaeology. Out of such efforts came such portraits as David Friedrich Strauss's Jesus as a Jewish sage, and Adolf von Harnack's Jesus as an ideal ethical humanist...
...Torah. In Philadelphia, the Jewish Publication Society of America announced a milestone in its gigantic Biblical scholarship project. After eight years, Jewish scholars led by Hebrew Union College's Harry Orlinsky (who was the only non-Christian on the committee that produced the Revised Standard Version) have completed a new translation of the Torah, the five books of Moses, which will be published in January. They hope eventually to finish the entire Old Testament in a 20-year project that has the backing of all branches of American Judaism-and the best scholars from each...
...example, a feature article in the CRIMSON precipitated public questioning of a University policy against non-Christian services in Memorial Church--a policy which barred the use of the chapel for Jewish marriage ceremonies. Mr. Pusey responded not by reexamining a policy over-ripe for such a review, but by dogmatically reasserting, on grounds of tradition, its continued validity. Further, Mr. Pusey stated his views in a tone which he should have realized would be found offensive by Jews and Christians alike. It is nothing short of astonishing that a Harvard President could write words which justifiably provoked a responsible...
...modern times" -disloyalty not to a state, an ideal or even a faith, but a betrayal of the "structure of reality itself." In that event, the future will belong to a new incarnation of that "senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless" man whom St. Paul met on the streets of non-Christian Corinth...
...When a patient is operated on and found fatally ravaged by cancer, doctors are often inclined to assure with a him (and perhaps his wife as well) their that he fatherthat he will recover. In the case of non-Christians, Pastor Brooks has no quarrel with his benevolent deceit: "There is no merit in trying to force a Christian death on non-Christian life . . . But why must such a death be turned into needless defeat in the case of the faithful? When a devout man demands to know the truth s othat he can face death victoriously, must we join...