Word: testaments
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...CHURCH ORGANIZATION. "The New Testament presents diverse types and even several principles of organization of the Christian communities. On this basis there have been developed, in the course of history, multiple forms of church order. In the light of history, we ought to respect and pursue diversity...
C.H.S. is a testament to the vision and tenacity of Audrey Cohen, the young wife of a well-to-do Manhattan tax lawyer. A former CORE worker and social-studies teacher, Mrs. Cohen has long felt that thousands of inner-city adults have the untapped talent to fill skilled jobs in the nation's undermanned human-service agencies. Unfortunately, such people commonly lack the diplomas and degrees that are now mandatory for the very jobs that they could do best. In a nation that stresses formal education as salvation, bright dropouts are increasingly stymied by the paper barriers...
Sanctified Fabric. The Bible, points out Old Testament Scholar Loren Fisher, tells of a "God of nature" as well as the more frequently emphasized "God of history." This God abhors pagan nature worship, but he decrees that all creation is good and holds his servant, man, accountable for what happens to it. Scripture even urges the practice of soil conservation (Leviticus 25: 2-5), kindness to animals (Exodus 23: 12) and preservation of trees (Deuteronomy...
...object of all this learned scorn was The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, which argues that Jesus was not a man but a hallucinogenic mushroom, Amanita muscaria; that the New Testament was concocted by addicts of the mushroom as a code for their mystical lore; and that the God of Jews and Christians is ultimately nothing more than a magnificent phallic symbol. Normally, such preposterous stuff would be dismissed as beneath serious discussion. But in this case the author is a maverick philologist of some scholarly standing: John M. Allegro, 47, former lecturer on the Old Testament at the University...
Besides rejecting such word games, critics have pointed out that there is more historical evidence that Jesus actually lived in Judea than that the mushroom ever did. Last week 15 distinguished theologians and philologists -including Sir Godfrey Driver, one of the chief translators of the Old Testament in the New English Bible -took to the letters columns of the Times of London to denounce Allegro's book as "an essay in fantasy rather than philology," which is "not based on any philological or other evidence" of merit...