Verbatim."THOSE WHO ARE responsible for developing the worship experience make assumptions about how adequately prepared people are to worship God. Eventually people cease to expect a real encounter with God and simply settle for a pleasant experience." --Christian pollster poll·ster n. One that takes public-opinion surveys. Also called polltaker. Word History: The suffix -ster is nowadays most familiar in words like pollster, jokester, huckster, George Barna George Barna is the founder of The Barna Group, a market research firm specializing in studying the religious beliefs and behavior of Americans, and the intersection of faith and culture. (quoted in Pastor's Weekly Briefing, 9/11/98) "I WAS IN the eastern United States and went to a Polish Forty Hours [eucharistic] devotion. It was magnificent: the enthusiastic singing, the banks of candles, the silent contemplative prayer of the congregation who lingered for private prayer. We theologians and liturgists have a lot to answer to God for because we discouraged devotional life. The liturgy does not fulfill all of the people's needs. There are religious emotions that need devotional forms." --Msgr. Balthasar Fischer, head of the Liturgical Institute in Trier Trier (trēr), Latin Augusta Treverorum, city (1994 pop. 99,183), Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany, a port on the Moselle (Ger. Mosel) River, near the Luxembourg border. , Germany, (quoted in a letter to America, 11/14/8) "SOMETIMES HANS KUNG conducts himself like a second magisterium mag·is·te·ri·um n. Roman Catholic Church The authority to teach religious doctrine. [Latin, the office of a teacher or other person in authority, from magister, master; see . To tell you the truth, one is enough, at least for me." --German theologian Father Johann Baptist Metz Johann Baptist Metz (born 1928) is a Catholic theologian. He is Ordinary Professor of Fundamental Theology, Emeritus, at Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany. , responding to his fellow theologian's criticism of Metz's sharing a podium with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (quoted in National Catholic Reporter, 11/31/98) |
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