About This Issue: March 12, 1965

This issue features several articles on Christology. Dr. Bromiley lists what is to be learned from the baptism of Jesus. Dr. Clowney shows how the whole structure of the Word of the Lord points to him who is Lord of the Word. Dr. Stoessel deals with Christ as the ultimate example, and Dr. Allis discusses the role of the blood at the Lord’s table.

Dean Linton’s essay discusses the fallacies in the dogma of human perfectibility. To try to understand history without allowing for the reality of evil is to make of man’s past a conundrum, he says.

Also in this issue

The CT archives are a rich treasure of biblical wisdom and insight from our past. Some things we would say differently today, and some stances we've changed. But overall, we're amazed at how relevant so much of this content is. We trust that you'll find it a helpful resource.

Christianity Today March 12, 1965

Cover Story

Religion and Race: Selma: Parable of the Old South

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The Imitation of Christ

Horace E. Stoessel

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The Communion of the Blood of Christ

Oswald T. Allis

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Preaching Christ

Edmund P. Clowney

Cover Story

The Baptism of Jesus

Geoffrey W. Bromiley

Editorial

A Time for Moral Indignation

Carl. F. H. Henry

Wanted: Christian Interpretation of History

Robot or Child?

Henry M. DeRooy

Eutychus and His Kin: March 12, 1965

Beyond the Horizon

Ruined by Prosperity—Uzziah

Clarence Edward Macartney

None so Blind

Book Briefs: March 12, 1965

Arrested by Anecdote

Billy Graham in Hawaii

Free Scripture via TV

George Williams

Review of Current Religious Thought: March 12, 1965

Addison H. Leitch

Our Latest

A song book made from paper pieces of different Christmas carols.

Excerpt

There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Proper’ Christmas Carol

As we learn from the surprising journeys of several holiday classics, the term defies easy definition.

A baby hand in hay

Advent Calls Us Out of Our Despair

Joni Eareckson Tada

Sitting in the dark helps us truly appreciate the light.

A painting of Mary listening to Jesus teach.

Glory to God in the Highest Calling

Sandra Glahn and Seana Scott

Motherhood is honorable, but being a disciple of Jesus is every woman’s primary biblical vocation.

An abstract advent wreath and candles

Advent Doesn’t Have to Make Sense

Christian Gonzalez Ho

As a curator, I love how contemporary art makes the world feel strange. So does the story of Jesus’ birth.

The three wise men looking at the star of Bethlehem

Public Theology Project

The Star of Bethlehem Is a Zodiac Killer

How Christmas upends everything that draws our culture to astrology.

The tower at the entrance to Pepperdine University glows red-orange as vegetation around it burns in the night.

News

As Malibu Burns, Pepperdine Withstands the Fire

University president praises the community’s “calm resilience” as students and staff shelter in place in fireproof buildings.

A door on an orange background opening to reveal a gavel.

News

The Door Is Now Open to Churches in Nepal

Surendra Bajracharya

Seventeen years after the former Hindu kingdom became a secular state, Christians have a pathway to legal recognition.

Vintage family photos with one of them showing the Holy Family.

The Holy Family and Mine

Nativity scenes show us the loving parents we all need—and remind me that my own parents estranged me over my faith.