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La dama de las camelias Argentina and Venezuela. One day she meets young Armand Duval Robert Taylor and falls in love with him. She leaves her luxurious world to go to live with Armand in the countryside. Marguerite is finally forced to sell all her possessions to pay for her medicines and is abandoned by all her friends except for her faithful maid Nanine Jessie Ralph. There have always been doubts as to whether Marguerite Gautier was a real character or not. She introduced herself into the circles of high society and became the lover of several aristocrats and famous characters of the time, including Alexandre Dumas himself.

She died of tuberculosis in Her symbol was a white camellia. Tuberculosis manifests itself in the film by dyspnea, progressive health decline, loss of weight, coughing and haemoptysis. The novel by Alexandre Dumas fils has been the basis of many versions such as Kameliadamen by V. The version directed by George Cuckor and played by Greta Garbo Academy Award in in recognition of her professional career is undoubtedly the best known one. Horace Longstreet operates the most brutal drug empire in the south of the USA. When he learns that a young dealer known as the "Cat" has been lying about the profits, he hires the services of Tyrone Burke, a former Pinkerton detective, now an alcoholic and dying of tuberculosis.

The story is set in Rotterdam in the 20s. The story is told using the flashback technique. Katadreuffe goes to see a doctor who, after examining him, tells him that he is exhausted and nervous and that he will not be able to work. Your mother is not well. You know she has weak lungs. It got worse recently. There is no immediate cause for concern. Ed Adams Alan Ladd is a Chicago journalist who is trying to get to the bottom of the events surrounding the death of young Ellen Raimer Donna Reed , who has seemingly died of tuberculosis.

Gradually, dangerous connections begin to surface…. El caudillo rebelde Chile and Mexico. El Gran Jefe Spain. Crazy horse will go to war even though he knows that the prophecy will lead to a tragic outcome. His wife is also ill and he expects her health to improve with the good weather. The Necessities of Life English, International. Las necesidades de la vida Argentina. In the fifties the Inuit population of Canada suffered a severe scourge of tuberculosis. To control the epidemic, the Canadian government set into motion a campaign for the early diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

The city was nothing like the place where he had spent all his life, the vast frozen surfaces had nothing to do with this urban landscape more typical of the south, where cars mixed with houses and lawns with trees. The hospital was unwelcoming: He was completely alone, far from his land and family. He could not communicate; he spoke Inuktitut and not French.

He was plunged into a culture that was very different from his own. The X-rays revealed the presence of two caverns and he was subjected to collapse therapy and climotherapy and probably treated with streptomycin. He was finally fortunate enough to be one of the Inuit who returned home healthy, leaving the experience of being a stranger in his own country behind. He also left behind depression, coughing and haemoptysis, his fellow patients and the sculptures that were characteristic of his culture.

The film clearly reveals how tuberculosis killed, especially in the character of a child who Tivii became friends with and who died following severe haemoptysis. The plot of the film is a lesson about what tuberculosis meant in the mid 20th century. Its viewing, together with a sober analysys of its contents, might contribute to a deeper knowledge of the history of consumption. Linda Arvidson as Linda A. Jimmie Creighton Hale escaped and Mary has not seen him for years.

In the end, however, her brother enters the courtroom, now a lawyer and a surprise member of Mary's defense team. He is struggling to complete his last great play, a comedy called The Cherry Orchard. Based on letters and original notes. Together with his lover, novelist George Sand Hannelore Hoger , and his children he spends the summer months in a country house. Desire for Love English.

The film begins in Warsaw in , where Fryderyk Chopin Piotr Adamczyk lives with his parents and his two sisters while composing music for the not very expert Grand Duke Constantine Janusz Gajos. Shortly before the November Uprising, his father Jerzy Zelnik urges him to leave for Paris, which he does. In the French capital he meets novelist George Sand Danuta Stenka , who has just split from Felicien Mallefille Jacek Rozenek , her violent lover, and to whom he feels attracted.

Months later, a mutual friend, Albert Grzymala Andrzej Zielinski , helps Chopin to get to know George better and a passionate romance starts between them. Chopin is diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and has to deal with declining health. After several years of constant struggle among the four of them, the relationship ends and Chopin calls one of his sisters to help him get through the last days of his life. The film reflects the important role of sanatoriums in the control of tuberculosis during the early 20th century.

Documentary film that is freely available from link. It is part of the contents of the DVD: La ciutat de l'alegria Catalan. Allied Filmmakers, Lightmotive and Princel. It focuses on the story of Max Patrick Swayze , an American surgeon who, disillusioned after losing a patient, travels to India in search of spiritual peace.

Patients with leprosy and tuberculosis appear in several scenes throughout the film, as well as a man suffering from terminal tuberculosis who is stabbed in the abdomen. Tom Cutler Samuel L. Jackson is the owner of a business in charge of cleaning the stains left at homes by bodies, generally following accidental deaths. In the credits tuberculosis is mentioned as being a potential risk when present in human remains.

One must follow three basic steps. First get rid of all the vermin: V, herper, tuberculosis , adenovirus, hantavirus, E. Between you and me, I also throw in a bit of Listerine. Rosario de la Vega, R. One year later, his eldest daughter, Consuelo, shows the same symptoms: Through a priest who tells her that neither religion nor traditional remedies are enough to cure her, she gets in touch with a doctor who, after establishing her medical history and performing an examination and a radiological study, diagnoses her with tuberculosis.

Later on, the doctor tells Mr. Consuelo recovers at home. The Hispanic population is now not only cheerful , but also healthy. Ulmer made several educational films for the National Tuberculosis Association such as: A short film aimed at the Hispanic population, already numerous at the time 1,, , and particularly aimed at those of Mexican origin, with informative and educational purposes regarding tuberculosis.

The distinguishing features of this population sector of the USA are used for this purpose, from music to religion, going through the characteristics of families. The title reflects what the doctor says to Consuelo when referring to the initial radiological injury of pulmonary tuberculosis: Coco Chanel Anna Mouglalis is in love with the young and rich Boy Chapel, but devotes her life to her job. Coco attends the first performance of The Rite of Spring wearing a sparkling white dress that contrasts with the evening dresses of the glum Parisian middle-class.

The music and ballet, too modern and nonconformist for the time, are booed by the audience almost leading to a riot. Igor, following the Russian Revolution, now takes refuge in Paris, penniless. Diaghilev, the manager of the Ballets Russes, introduces them to each other. Both of them are fascinated and Coco suggests that Igor should stay at her new villa in Garches.

The composer moves in at the beginning of the summer, together with his wife Catherine, sick with tuberculosis , his four children, and a bird cage. John Jelks, Michelle A. Banks, Nirvana Cobb, Kevin L. Davis, Christopher Smith, K. Robinson, Isaac White, L. The film presents two parallel love stories. It explores the secrets of black culture at the beginning of the 20th century and early nineties. Love and suffering are analyzed through two diseases that have marked these two periods, tuberculosis and AIDS. The first story takes place in Chicago in the early 20th century.

Banks , a deaf but refined young woman. His tuberculosis causes the romance to end. The Secret of Boston Blackie alternative title. Confesiones de Boston Blackie Spanish translation. The owner wanted to sell it to raise the necessary funds to send her brother, who is affected by tuberculosis , to a sanatorium.

Second film in the Boston Blackie series. Based on the characters created by Jack Boyle. The passengers are served some prawns from Mexico that are tainted with Vibrio cholerae and, in the USA, doctor Cole Lindsay Wagner has to deal with the epidemic of cholera brought about by their consumption.

While seeing to the patients and doing research on the epidemic, her husband and her two children go to spend a weekend in the countryside. At the beginning, Doctor Cole, who is an epidemiologist, gives the necessary instructions for the isolation of a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis caused by a multi-resistant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The sister of one of the servants has a child who is affected by the same disease. The doctor explains the main symptoms of this infection and suggests that to avoid child mortality she should write to Queen Victoria Eugenia so that research on this disease can be carried out.

The Queen and the Princesses were part of the cast. The story begins in Paris in When Adeline dies she has hopes to take her place but her widower, Hector Hulot Hugh Laurie , merely suggests that she could be the housekeeper for his daughter Hortense Kelly Macdonald. She refuses this insulting offer and returns to her neighbourhood where she lives in poverty. She meets a penniless artist, the irresistibly charming Wenceslas Aden Young , whom she saves from starvation and encourages to cease his efforts to become a sculptor.

In return she expects to possess the young man or, at least, to experience the loving tenderness she has been denied for so long. Meanwhile, Hortense meets Wenceslas in an art gallery and decides to marry him.

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At the beginning of the film, Adeline Hulot dies, seemingly of tuberculosis. La Cousin Bette by Max de Rieux Coughing, handkerchiefs covering the mouth, haemoptysis and death fill the documentary. It shows the tragedy that tuberculosis involved for Poe and his family. Dashiell suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and finally from lung cancer. Alborada de sangre Chile. Amanecer en Socorro Spain. In Spain it was broadcast by Spanish Television on 20 July The doctor who attends him diagnoses him with pulmonary tuberculosis after hearing him cough.

He begins the journey in a stage-coach, where he meets a young woman called Rannah Hayes Piper Laurie and stops in Socorro New Mexico to catch the train to Colorado Springs. Both of these events will change his journey. The only clinical manifestation of pulmonary tuberculosis shown by the protagonist is coughing. This leads the physician to perform a check-up and to diagnose the condition via auscultation and thoracic percussion. He is also told to go somewhere with nice weather and live a decent life eating three meals a day, which takes him to Socorro.

Rannah gives him some cough medicine containing alcohol and for some time he remains free of coughing fits. Bill Richard Gere and Abby Brooke Adams , a young couple, decide to leave poverty and the harsh life they lead in the Chicago of behind. When harvest time is over, the young and handsome owner, who believes they are brother and sisters, asks them to stay on because he has fallen in love with Abby… public Synopsis. Starred by a very young Richard Gere. The landowner suffers from an illness that, because of its slow development and its potentially deadly character, seems likely to be tuberculosis , although this word is never mentioned.

How long do you think I have left? Since they were kind-hearted they decided to wait until he died a natural death. Biography of the legendary American musician and composer Cole Porter Kevin Kline , an icon of the music of the 20th century who was at his most glorious during the golden age of classical Hollywood. Porter looks back at his life as if it was one of his spectacular shows, with the people and events of his life playing the role of actors and actions in the scenes. Several productions are presented together with his music throughout the film.

His elegant and overloaded past is brought to light, including his deep and complicated relationship with his wife and muse, Linda Porter Ashley Judd. A character with terminal tuberculosis , Patrick Murphy, the child of his friend Gerald Murphy, appears twice in the film. Cradle of Crime USA reissue title. Calle sin salida Spain. Hugh "Baby Face" Martin Humphrey Bogart , a notorious killer, returns to one such dead-end street, his home as a boy, hoping to see his mother, and Francey Claire Trevor , an old girl friend.

Dave Connell Joel McCrea , an unemployed architect, also lives on the street, but dreams that one day he and Kay Burton Wendy Barrie , the girlfriend of a wealthy man, can have a better life. His friend Drina Gordon Sylvia Sidney , who has loved Dave for years, struggles through a strike, hoping to earn enough money to keep her kid brother Tommy Billy Halop from turning into a criminal along with his friends on the street. Martin finds his mother and Francey, but becomes despondent when his mother slaps and rejects him and he learns that Francey is a prostitute.

Martin yearns to stay in one place, but, despite plastic surgery on his face, his finger prints cannot be changed and he is trapped by his past crimes. That same afternoon, the street kids beat up Philip Charles Peck , the son of one of the wealthy apartment owners, and take his watch. Although Tommy gives the watch back, the boy's father, Mr. Griswold Minor Watson , the brother of a famous judge, wants to press charges when Tommy wounds him slightly with a knife.

Tommy wants to run away, but Drina begs to go with him. When Spit, the leader of Tommy's gang, informs, Tommy hides while Drina talks to the police. Meanwhile, Martin is killed by Dave, who stops Martin's plan to kidnap Philip. Because Dave will now earn a large reward, he thinks that he and Kay can start a new life, but lets her go when he realizes that she is only interested in a year of high living with him. He and Drina convince Tommy to give himself up and, although Mr.

Griswold refuses to drop charges, Dave offers to use his reward money to hire a good lawyer to keep the boy out of reform school. Nominated for four Academy Awards in Tuberculosis hovers over Dead End as one more element of the setting. The story takes place in a time when tuberculosis was a serious problem in the USA because there was no etiological treatment for it. Three cases of pulmonary tuberculosis emerge along the story, all of them affecting people of disadvantaged social status and manifested exclusively by coughing. Gabriel Dell because he has tuberculosis.

In one of the scenes, he mentions that he coughs because he has this disease. The dame in the kimono: Hollywood, censorship, and the production code. The University Press of Kentucky; British film censorship in action, The film is about a bed that is possessed by a devil that devours all who dare to sleep on it. Henri Le Vert France and Switzerland. Heinrich el verde Spanish translation. The story takes place in Munich during Carnival. Henri wants to protect the girl and challenges him to a duel. While he is waiting, memories of his childhood and youth cross his mind, among them memories of his cousin Anna Florence Darle , from whom he received his first kiss of love, and who died of tuberculosis , abandoned by him as well.

The fatal outcome of the duel leads him to join her again. The Magic Mountain English, unspecified. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini Flavio Bucci , a secular humanist, and Naphta Charles Aznavour , a totalitarian Jesuit.

Several details related to tuberculosis sanatoriums can be observed in this film: Der Zauberberg by Ludwig Cremer. A flashback takes the action back to New York, where he played the piano at a jazz club where Sue Claudia Drake , his girlfriend, sang before taking the decision to move to Los Angeles to try her fortune in the film industry. Later he decides to join her and, while hitchhiking, he is picked up by Charles Haskell Jr. Edmund MacDonald , who is on his way to Los Angeles and offers him a ride. One night Charles dies suddenly and, for fear of being accused of murder, Al decides to get rid of the body, impersonate him and keep all his belongings.

At a petrol station he picks up Vera Ann Savage , a real femme fatale who suffers from tuberculosis and who decides to blackmail him. Before meeting Al, Charles had driven Vera in his car. All of them are freely available at link. Documentary aimed at GPs that sets out the steps they can follow to diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis in their patients: It stresses the fact that the sooner the diagnosis is reached, the better the response to the treatment.

Vance Pin Money and Carey Wilson. Three stories dealing with the search for a diamond that brings only misfortune to its owner: In South Africa, a miner Charles Stevens loses his life for stealing a diamond he has found. Before he dies, he gives the stone to Musa, a local girl. The gem becomes known as the Shah diamond and ends up in a New York City jewellery store window, where Cecile Gwen Lee , an upper-class matron, admires it. Her husband Conrad Nagel leaves her when he discovers that Jerry John Roche , a family friend, has given Cecile the diamond under the pretence that it is a glass trinket.

Musa, now Cecile's maid, is again the recipient of the gem. The diamond is stolen by a gang of thieves. Larry Lawrence Gray , who really loves her, secretly gives her money to go to a sanatorium for her lung disease tuberculosis to be cured. Instead, Tillie uses the money to buy the diamond.

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Tillie accepts a modest diamond from Larry and becomes his wife AFI. Diario de un cura rural Argentina. A young priest arrives in Ambricourt, a village in the north of France, to take charge of his first parish. He lacks pastoral experience and puts all his efforts into winning over his potential parishioners, which he does not succeed in doing, and is even ignored and rejected. In addition, he has health problems and ends up being diagnosed with stomach cancer.

This is beyond doubt, and in the opinion of virtually all the critics, a worldwide masterpiece of cinema. The story is told by the priest through his diary. The presence of tuberculosis in the film is limited to one comment, when he learns that he has stomach cancer, the priest says: A story of love and death that takes place in a tuberculosis sanatorium of Palermo, La Rocca, during the summer of At the hospital, he meets Marta Lucrezia Lante della Rovere , a former dancer of La Scala and the ex-lover of an SS member, who, in spite of her tuberculosis, retains her charm, causing him to fall in love with her.

Angelo outlives all of them, but to the cost of his love. The Counterfeiters English, international. The film dramatizes facts related to the counterfeiting of English pounds and American dollars carried out during the Nazi regime at the end of World War Two. Not only paper money was counterfeited, but documents such as passports were also forged.

Their work was considered of such importance that they were granted relatively special treatment in spite of their ethnic origins and they were moved to an isolated area of the camp. Aware of the methods used by Nazis to eliminate their people, survival was what motivated most of the members of the group.

This desire was stronger than that of boycotting the production, which could have precipitated the end of the conflict; this was only done by Adolf Burger August Diehl , a Czech communist who used to work in a printing office and who was willing to die before collaborating with the Nazi regime and giving up his ideals. Life as opposed to principles was the moral dilemma. The forging of pounds sterling was a success; so much so that even the bank of England believed they were real, the Nazis distributed a larger quantity than in the store of the agency issuing them.

Salomon Sorowitsch Karl Markovics was an excellent forger and a character that belonged to the lower circles of Berlin, getting arrested in He managed to survive thanks to his skills as a painter, which he took advantage of in Mauthausen bydrawing portraits of Nazis and their families and making propaganda murals, which allowed him to once again come across the policeman who had arrested him in Berlin, Friedrich Herzog Devid Striesow , who was responsible for the forging in Sachsenhausen, and with whom he developed a relationship of mutual dependence. Salomon seemed sullen, but deep inside he was kind hearted; he survived, but he also helped others to do so too.

Based on real facts. Salomon tried to help Kolya Sebastian Urzendowsky , a Russian boy who suffered from tuberculosis , to survive. The boy looked pale, and had a fever, coughing fits and anorexia. Sally realized that as soon as the Nazis found out they would immediately and efficiently eradicate the source of infection, which eventually happened, by a shot in the head. In his attempts to help Kolya get better Sally would force him to eat and protect him by using his own blood to make his cheeks look rosier, and, when the situation seemed hopeless, begging his jailer for the medicines doctor Klinger August Zirner thought would be effective.

Ernst Wilhelm Borchert as W. Susanne, full of understanding, agrees to share the flat, while something similar to love begins to grow between them. After declaring their love for each other, Susanne tells Hans that she does not know him and would like to know more about his life, work, studies… While looking at a panel where several chest X-rays are displayed, the doctor recalls a day in his former life:. The patient had tuberculosis.

We had arranged surgery. The professor did not arrive. I had to tell the young patient how we all wanted his surgery to be postponed. A strange challenge to test myself. Then I decided to skip the rules. The experienced nurse was against it. But I operated on him and then … I suddenly felt completely calm, completely confident, as if I had done it times before. To support herself and her infant son Dinty Wesley Barry , Doreen labors as a washerwoman until, at the age of twelve, Dinty becomes the family's breadwinner by selling newspapers.

Meanwhile, in Chinatown wealthy opium smuggler Wong Tai Noah Beery kidnaps Judge Whitely's daughter in retribution for the judge's sentencing of Wong Tai's son to prison. Dinty, whose work as a newsboy has familiarized him with the Chinese underworld, leads the police to Wong Tai's hideout and saves the judge's daughter from a fearful death.

To show his gratitude, Judge Whitely adopts Dinty, whose mother has recently succumbed to tuberculosis, and Dinty begins life anew AFI. Law and Order by Edward L. Frontier Marshal by Lew Seiler Frontier Marshal by Allan Dwan The main characters are real, and real events are recreated in this and other films about them and the topic, generally involving much fantasy.

He coughs from the very first sequences of the film. His cough is often dry and appears twice in considerable fits, one of them ending in hemoptysis, and the other accompanied by severe dyspnea. Curiously, in the last part of the film he stops coughing. At certain times he looks sweaty and his eyes become rheumy, as if he had a fever. He knows that owing to his condition he has only a short time to live, expressly mentioned in the film. Because of his illness the doctors advised him to go west to a dryer climate.

The tuberculosis of "Doc" Holliday in the cinema. Laennec Pierre Planchar This austere doctor, a native of Brittany, confronted a tuberculosis epidemic with a high mortality rate that affected hundreds of patients seeking help for their health problems at the Necker Hospital in Paris. The invention of the stethoscope allowed him to advance considerably in the diagnosis of the illness. He put all his energy into fighting this disease, until he himself became affected and decided to return to his native land.

The invention of the stethoscope allowed considerable advances in the diagnosis of pneumonia and tuberculosis to be made. Laennec died of tuberculosis at the age of The story takes place in the 30s in a village of Connecticut. Dr George Bull is charged with negligence for failing to carry out an inspection when there was an outbreak of typhoid fever. The real reason, however, is a different matter.

Part of the population is convinced that Bull has been having an affaire with a widow. While the elderly women of the village whisper about the shameful things they must be getting up to, the widow is reading Alice in Wonderland to George.

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To silence the puritans, it seems best to quieten them and ignore their vicious tongues, and Bull does so by marrying the widow and leaving the village after winning recognition. He leaves on a train, the same train with which the plot opened. The revolution of September ends with the establishment of the Republic following the overthrow of Isasbella II. The Royal Family is in exile in Paris. Two years later, the Queen renounces in favour of her son, young Alfonso.

Queen Mercedes dies shortly after the wedding. Alfonso XII died of tuberculosis in After getting completely soaked in a rainstorm, Mercedes starts to feel bad "it's a constant ailment" and goes to Aranjuez to get some rest. She has a fever the doctors takes her pulse ; she doesn't want to eat, and she looks poorly Although she tries to hide her health status from Alfonso on a boat trip, she begins to hear strange noises and sees the light around her fade, until she faints.

A few days later she dies. The clinical picture is not solved in the film; it lasts for weeks and coiuld be considered a tuberculosis, although the character does not have a cough. The action takes place in and concludes with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Humour, pity and love are mixed in the film. The protagonist, doctor Akagi Akira Emoto , works as a doctor in a fishing village, having as accomplices young Sonoko Kumiko Aso , a prostitute he takes in at the request of her father, who dies of hepatitis, and who from that moment onwards will take care of him, the owner of a geisha house Keiko Massuzaka , a morphine-addicted surgeon Masanori Sera , and a drunken Buddhist monk Juro Kara.

The doctor, aided by his great patriotic spirit and a large dose of humanity, begins a crusade against a hepatitis epidemic that has broken out in Japan and that the authorities refuse to acknowledge. Because of this he becomes known as Doctor Liver. The film essentially focuses on the hepatitis epidemic, although it also broaches other problems of the same nature such as typhus, smallpox, malaria, cholera, flu, pneumonia, the common cold, and tuberculosis.

The Story of Dr. A cinematographic biography of German doctor Paul Ehrlich. The first part shows his work at a hospital, of which he is not very satisfied; his first contact with syphilis; his relationship with Emil Von Behring O. Kruger and Robert Koch A. Bassermann , his work-relationship with the latter after succeeding in staining the tuberculosis bacillus; his suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and his recovery in Egypt, and his role in the discovery of antidiphtheria serum.

The second part of the film focuses on his effort in fighting syphilis and the discovery of Salvarsan. The film is based on an idea by Norman Burstine and on letters and notes belonging to the Ehrlich family. Robinson was posthumously awarded a special prize in recognition of his achievements in cinema and his career of over 50 years. Filmed almost entirely in a studio, it reconstructs the oppressive atmosphere of Berlin. Very early on in the film, there is a sequence that recreates the conference delivered on 24 March by Robert Koch before the Physiological Society of Berlin, where he announced the discovery of the etiologic agent of tuberculosis.

One of those present at this announcement was Ehrlich, who, thanks to a culture provided by Koch, was able to stain Mycobacterium tuberculosis and prove its acid resistance. The film recreates the anecdote of how serendipity favoured him with the accidental overheating of a preparation, in this case, as opposed to what really happened, caused by his wife. This event is thus dramatically reinforced with the presence of Emil Von Behring. Later, Ehrlich faints at a party due to his pulmonary tuberculosis. He therefore goes to Egypt with his wife to recover. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin.

Tokyo, after World War Two. However, the doctor finds a bullet. The patient is a petty gangster who suffers from tuberculosis. From then on, the doctor, recalling his own past, will attempt to save him despite the violent confrontations that arise between them. The former contracts tuberculosis and gives up the fight to win the heart of the young woman, who marries the doctor. Moham is admitted to a tuberculosis sanatorium from where he runs a radio programme as part of the campaign against tuberculosis.

Made with the collaboration of the Indian Agency responsible for the fight against tuberculosis. It achieved considerable success, both because of the actors chosen and because of the appeal of the musical acts. There are four other films with the same original title, though not the same plot, that were premiered in , , and respectively.

It focuses on the years between and and tells of his artistic evolution and relationships with different characters of the time. A film made for TV and performed by amateur actors. This political comedy is a satire of communist ideology. The action takes place during the first years of the decade of the 50s of the last century in the German Democratic Republic. Tuberculosis forces two patients with opposing ideals to live together in the same room at a sanatorium. After many confrontations they arrive at the conclusion that they are not so different and might even become friends.

In , the film received several awards at the Berlin International Film Festival: Year of Enlightment undefined. The Year of Awakening English, international. They are 16 and 8 years old respectively and orphans, their father having died in the recently ended Civil War. The story takes place in Barcelona during the 40s. Dani Fernando Tielve , a fourteen-year-old boy who has lost his father in the Civil War spends the summer idling about his neighbourhood. Susana Aida Folch , daughter of Anita Ariadna Gil and Kim Antonio Resines , is a pretty fifteen-year-old girl who has been confined to her room because of tuberculosis and who lives expecting the return of her father, who is supposedly carrying out a secret mission in Shangai.

The Carpenter's Pencil Europe, English title. The action takes place in Galicia, starting in Santiago de Compostela not long before the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. A group of the Civil Guard are investigating him because of his left-wing political affiliation, and the report made by Corporal Herbal Luis Tosar , who had been in love with his girlfriend since he was a child, is a determinant factor for his arrest after Franco takes control of the country.

Nevertheless, he manages to survive in the Galician prisons he is confined in. The story is told by Herbal, who tells it to one of the girls of the club where he works as a cleaner. The girl picks it up and gives it to him: Three characters could be linked to tuberculosis. The first is the Corporate, who opens the film with a coughing fit and who once thought he had the illness until Daniel told him that what he really had was angina pectoris. The second one is a painter who goes to portray the patients at the psychiatric hospital where the protagonist works.

Upon seeing his former works the following conversation takes place:. All the prisoners are checked by the prison doctor when they arrive, and therefore the doctor listens to his chest. The story begins in during the Spanish Civil War. Pau commits suicide and Manuel and Ramallo part after sealing a pact of silence regarding these events. In , Francisca Antonia Torrens , a girl who had witnessed the cruel childhood scene, has become a nun and works as a nurse at a tuberculosis sanatorium.

From that moment on, the hidden passions of the protagonists, who face the disease in different ways, will emerge: Manuel seeks shelter in religion, whereas Ramallo ignores it. His body, his feelings and his consciousness, are all fragile. The man will distance himself from what up to then seemed to make up his daily life and, thus, by taking that step of detachment, he will study the reasons for such fragility.

A regular midday business trip inland turns into a different journey altogether. When he reaches his destination, Juan Desouza, finds that the man travelling next to him fails to wake up. Secretly, as if it was a game, he decides to assume the identity of this man, to make up a profession, to find a place to stay the night: The only detail related to tuberculosis in this film are some old letters the protagonist finds in a house and that have stamps bearing the Cross of Lorraine, a symbol related to tuberculosis.

The doctor who sees him tells the family, after studying the appropriate images, that he has a tumor and that its aetiology, which is nothing but a tuberculous granuloma that will require long-term treatment, will be clarified by the performance of a biopsy. The doctor dismisses this form of tuberculosis as an illness related to immigration. Encephalic tuberculosis in HIV-negative patients is an increasingly frequent disease in developed countries, especially among immigrants, and can present a pseudotumoral symptomatology. Jimmy Karlsson and Kjell Sundstedt.

Elina Natalie Minnevik is a nine-year-old girl who lives in the north of Sweden in the early 50s. She belongs to the Finnish-speaking minority. Her father died of tuberculosis some years ago but she believes she can still talk with him in the marshland that is behind her house. She is also sick with tuberculosis, owing to which she has missed school for quite a long period and has had to repeat a whole academic year. Her new teacher, Ms Tora Holm Bibi Andersson , believes she is careless and negligent and sets about to turn her into a neat and tidy schoolgirl.

This involves speaking perfect Swedish, without using Finnish expressions and, above all, respecting people of authority. Elina repeatedly wanders about the marshlands trying to get in touch with her father. One day she sinks into the mud and is almost swallowed up.

This is when she realizes that she is not alone, but that she is loved and needed. When she goes to school the following morning everything is different. This is a story based on the life of Dorothy Day Moira Kelly , a woman of extraordinary faith who is remarkably committed to the most important social causes of her time. She was born in Brooklyn in and grew up in Chicago in the heart of a Protestant family.

In she moved to New York where she pursued her career as a revolutionary journalist, made contributions to several publications and supported the feminist movement. She had a series of lovers; she was made pregnant by one of them and had an illegal abortion. She married, but the marriage only lasted one year.

In she became pregnant again and decided to have the child. The birth of her daughter triggers a spiritual change in her. She becomes a Catholic and the deep faith she feels moves her to tirelessly help the disadvantaged through her deeds providing shelter, feeding and clothing the needy and publications.

She spends time in prison for opposing the Vietnam War. Her work lives on in the form of shelters and dining halls and, above all, in her struggle for peace and justice public synopsis. Several sets of infectious symptoms are mentioned such as: In Spain it was released during the 18th Experimental Film Week of Madrid which took place from 21 to 28 November, The film comprises two stories about life in Poland during World War Two; in fact, in Spanish it was even called Heroica. Dzidzius will witness how his patriotism will force him to cross the German lines once again to contact the AK headquarters in Warsaw.

The second part, Ostinato Lugubre , begins when the Warsaw Uprising has already been quenched. The story takes place in a prison camp at the foot of the Alps. The prisoners of the Uprising will find themselves together with the Polish prisoners of the defensive war. The action takes place in one of the barrack huts for officials, where two different sets of experiences and two completely different worlds will be thrust together. While the officials of the Warsaw uprising are conscious of their efforts and heroism, they have been defeated again so they are aware of the need to leave romantic heroism behind they ironically say that they have come to the camp to have a well-deserved rest.

Lieutenant Zawistowski Tadeusz Lomnicki manages to escape from the prisoncamp, raising the hopes of the prisoners; however, few of them know that he is really hidden in the loft of a barrack hut and that he is sick with tuberculosis , from which he finally dies. Cara a cara Spain. Faccia a faccia Italy. Brad ends up becoming a member of the gang and, subsequently, its leader.

The story takes place in New York in autumn during the early 20th century. Earl Headley Mace Greenleaf discovers an effective treatment for tuberculosis. In a wealthy household, Winifred Thompson Marian Swayne is playing the piano when she suddenly begins to cough and faints. She is seriously ill with pulmonary tuberculosis. She is visited by a doctor who tells the family that by the time the last leaf has fallen the young woman will be dead. Headley passes by and asks the child why she is doing that and she tells him. The doctor tells her he has discovered a serum to treat consumption that might save her sister.

He uses it on her and Winifred is healed. Love arises between the patient and the bacteriologist who cures her. The film can be viewed at link. The film reflects the effects of tuberculosis on the population of the time when it was filmed and the expectations there were of finding a treatment that would be really effective. Family Diary USA, original subtitled version.

In Enrico Marcello Mastroianni , a young journalist, receives a phone call informing him of the death of Dino Jacques Perrin , his younger brother. Enrico recalls how after years of separation they met again, how he became infected with tuberculosis and had to go to a sanatorium while his brother suffered from an incurable disease.

Cobb, based on a short story with the same title that was published on 13 May in the Saturday Evening Post. Robert Vorhis falls in love with Marie, but because a rejected suitor tells him that Marie's reputation is stained, he goes to California with his parents to forget her. Helene contracts tuberculosis , and when Marie, seeking the location of a hospital for consumptives, asks several men their address, she is arrested for streetwalking. Robert's father, Judge Vorhis, acquits her, but upon returning home, she discovers that Paul and Hans have been killed in battle and that her sister has committed suicide.

El Club de la Pelea Argentina and Mexico. El club de la lucha Spain. The film tells the story of The Narrator Edward Norton , a nameless young man who suffers from insomnia. To fight it he attends support group meetings for alcoholics, people with cancer, people with tuberculosis , people with parasitism… One day he meets Tyler Durden Brad Pitt and everything starts to change.

They establish a secret club where businessmen can fight in order to release their frustrations. This situation is not well received by The Narrator. The plot begins when the famous Scottish playwright J. Barrie Johnny Depp sees how his latest play captivates and surprises the refined English society of the 19th century.

Barrie is a literary genius, but is bored with always dealing with the same topics in his novels and therefore urgently needs to find a new source of inspiration. One day, he unexpectedly finds it while taking a stroll through the Kensington gardens in London with his St. There, Barrie comes across the Llewelyn Davies family: He amuses the children with magic tricks, dressing up, and creating imaginary worlds of kings and castles, cowboys and Indians, and pirates and shipwrecks. He turns hillsides into galleons, sticks into powerful swords, kites into fairy godmothers and the children of the Llewelyn Davies family into The Lost Children of Neverland.

At first, his drama company seems reluctant. Its loyal producer, Charles Frohman Dustin Hoffman , fears that Barrie might end up in penury with this childish fantasy, but Barrie begins with the rehearsals, shocking the actors with his strange demands: When Barrie is about to present the world of Peter Pan , a tragic turn forces him and his loved ones to come to terms with what living really means.

Kaczmarek and received nominations in six other categories: Sylvia suffers from tuberculosis , although this word is never mentioned in the film, and dies of it. When I think of your mother, I will always remember how happy she looked, sitting there in the parlour watching a play about her family, about her boys that never grew up. She went to Neverland. And you can visit her any time you like if you just go there yourself. Fires on the Plains English, international. Fuego en la llanura Spanish translation.

The plot develops in the Philippines in early The Japanese army is in the process of being defeated; it is beating a retreat and fighting desperately in the jungle. The men are afraid of the Americans, who they try to flee from while they suffer the ravages of malaria and other infections, together with food shortage. The position they are in is so bad that they even engage in inhuman acts such as cannibalism.

Tamura Eiji Funakoshi is one of these men. It is considered to be a film of high artistic and historical value. The hospital sends you back and you obey? There's no room here for consumptives like you! Tell 'em you have nowhere to go. In the thick of war, your comrades gave you five days' food to take to the hospital. Three days later you returned, saying they'd pronounced you cured. TB cured in three days? I could've done that long ago, but I've got no hankering for TB germs. Her mother's brother, Sidney Bentham, is a wealthy financier, but has isolated himself from all his relatives.

Ethel and her pal, Jimmy, the newsie, set out to find Bentham. They happen to arrive at his home, and Bentham, who has heard of his sister's death, repents sufficiently to take Ethel into his home. Jimmy, too, finds shelter there and the two plot to reform Bentham, who is bent on destroying his brother on the stock market. Short films under the same title were released in two of them , and Lewis as Daddy Lewis. Deep in financial difficulties, Henry forges Edward's name on a stock certificate in order not to get into debt and is caught.

Edward, in revenge for being jilted, sues. When Ruth pleads for Henry, Edward offers to withdraw his charges if she will "pay the price. A few years later, Edward dies from tuberculosis that his weakened system, resulting from his dissipated life, could not combat. Traces of consumption in their son Walter, plus other evidence, lead Henry to suspect that the child's father was Edward, and Ruth admits that he is right. Henry drives her and the boy away and lives alone with his legitimate daughter Emily until Emily runs away to find Ruth. Other films under the same title were released in and After announcing their engagement they get married.

Upon returning from their honeymoon her performance, far from the strict court protocol, pleases her husband and wins over the restless Hungarian nation. The Count of Andrassy Walter Reyer confesses her his love, but Sissi, although attracted to him, remains faithful to her husband, and together they enjoy a second honeymoon in the Alps. Sick with tuberculosis she recovers in Spain under the care of her mother, Duchess Ludovika Magda Schneider. Back with her husband they go to Italy where they are received coldly, but the manners, friendliness and charm of the Empress win the heart of the Italians, after which they return to Austria.

This film results from the combination of Sissi , Sissi: Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. Cara de guerra Mexico. Nacido para matar Argentina. A group of recruits is being trained at Parris Island, a boot camp of the American Navy. However, not all the young men are able to endure his methods in the same way public synopsis. Nominated for an academy Award in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay The other half have got TB. Set in New York between and Manhattan is controlled by merciless gangs.

The background of the story is the Civil War and the riots in the poverty stricken district of Five Points. Amsterdam wants to take revenge on Bill, the man who killed his father. It was nominated for ten Academy Awards in The infectious pathology common to the time is mentioned. Thus, when Amsterdam asks:. Aullidos de terror Argentina. After suffering an overdose of the drug that prevents her from becoming a werewolf, Brigitte is locked up in a centre for the rehabilitation of drug addicts.

Without her dose, her transformation begins to speed up. The situation gets even worse when she is also haunted by the ghost of her sister and by another lycanthrope public synopsis. Sequel to Ginger Snaps by John Fawcett link. Joan saves Rodney White Raymond McKee from killing himself because he is a victim of the white plague. Impressed with Joan's faith, Rodney adopts her, taking her out West with his aunt Prudence Martha Mattox in hopes of recovering his health.

Rodney is only injured, however, and with the aid of the hermit Dr Norman Cecil Van Auker , he recovers. Some time after a series of murders begin to take place, all of them of men and sharing a common feature: John Wrathall based on the homonymous play by Cecil Philip Taylor.

A good university lecturer, he motivated his students, he advocated freedom of thought and he was against the banning of books. He fulfilled his duties as a family man by looking after a neurotic wife, two children and a mother who was sick with tuberculosis and suffered from dementia. A good soldier during World War One, he became friends with a Jewish doctor and psychoanalyst, alongside whom he fought on the front and who treated his psychological problems.

He was against the National Socialist Regime, which he thought of as something temporary, and he did not join the party in spite of pressures from his father-in-law and of the fact that taking this step would help him to progress at university. However, the publication in of a romantic novel in which a man killed his wife out of pity put him in touch with the Nazi Regime in For fear, no doubt, and also, why not, out of self-respect, he agreed to write it. He joined the party and even became a member of the SS. He broke up with his wife and married a former student who had become his lover while still at university.

It is pulmonary and said to be chronic of course! Nevertheless, later on, he finds her in bed, not looking well at all and coughing, which is when the good woman tries to kill herself by ingesting the pills she takes. Shortly after, she dies. Ulmer made other educational films for the National Tuberculosis Association such as: They are all freely available from link.

The animation part coincides with the narrative segment where the tuberculosis germ speaks while his fellow germs act on the lung. Also released in Spain. The action takes place during World War One. The plot revolves around the hardships endured by a group of French soldiers in the German prisoner-of-war camps.

This is a film with high social content. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Picture In this classification, tuberculosis is considered a disease typical of the intellectual classes. War involves a democratization of the disease because it brings all germs together:.

Emily's only close friends were her brother Branwell and her sisters Charlotte and Anne. Emily began writing poems at an early age and published twenty-one of them, together with poems by Anne and Charlotte. The slim volume only sold two copies, and the failure led all three to begin work on novels: Emily died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty, and never knew the great success of her only novel Wuthering Heights " G.

French as Charles French. Shirley's socializing enrages Pearson when he finds her in the company of Alexander Chapman Robert McKim , a drunken wastrel, but after a bitter quarrel, they reconcile. Shirley befriends Morgan, making Margery jealous, who goes to Pearson for consolation and advice, but instead rekindles Pearson's own jealousy. Later, at a dance in the Hunter home, Chapman reappears uninvited.

His managerial position meant he was not free to broadcast as in the past, but he never ceased to preach and speak widely. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with backing from Tory faithful, was outspoken in her view that journalists and television crews were not above the law and that material demanded by Government should be made available.

Many people on the mainland thought the three terrorists got what they deserved and would assume that decent people in Northern Ireland felt the same. They would, therefore, be shocked to see on their television screens the Milltown funeral cortege followed not just by paramilitary hardliners, but by thousands of ordinary people apparently doing homage to our dead heroes. But it is a life theme also, in his treatment of Christian communications as well as public broadcasting. In his introduction, he comments on the centrality of Christian ideas in the early history of the BBC.

BBC, , pp. In the introduction, he offers a self-definition which helpfully closes this chapter. I am not an academic theologian; like many Christians I do my theology on the march, trying to keep my footing through the fire and whirlwind, battling to make sense of tumultuous events and listening through the din for the still, small voice of God. As a broadcaster I have the additional challenge of speaking not just to the community of faith but to society at large.

These reflections are the result…. Any critical assessment of his contribution to church and society must adopt an appropriate methodology, introduced in the following chapter, which values the immediate and the responsive in much of his work. His territories of operation have been the pulpit under fire, the radical political platform, the mission field and global mission desk, the studio and the newsroom.

The potential for a kind of theology to emerge from these environments which is not immediately consistent, perfectly articulated and logically sequential is obvious. The treasure chest of materials and the methodological tools chosen for critical engagement with them are introduced in the next chapter.

Much is original and the majority reflects a passionate, prophetic, turbulent and rarely tranquil life. There is the need to be acutely aware of pitfalls and potential, so appropriate methodologies are explained and defended in the next section. Now ordered, it is entitled the Colin Morris Collection CMC and comprises unpublished writings, lecture notes, sermons, sermon skeletons, book reviews, broadcast scripts and transcripts, policy papers, articles from national and local press, conference inputs, formal and informal correspondence and a variety of other personal papers.

There are also audio and video cassettes of radio and television broadcasts. It was at my request that Dr Morris generously offered these materials for the purposes of this research project and he carried out no pre-selection of items and content. They were, literally, the unsorted boxes from the cellar freely handed over. I have now personally catalogued these materials 2 and they are lodged permanently in the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, for the future interest of Academy and Church. Appendix I lists the access details and the database contents in short form and is usefully consulted in conjunction with this chapter.

When hard copy items from the Collection are referred to in this thesis, a CMC reference number is given in the following form: These are published in Methodist Minutes of Conference and accessible to any researcher, but now additionally sit within this Collection for ease of access. Any items copied and added by myself are clearly footnoted in Appendix I, the short-form print out of the Colin Morris Collection as at May , and identifiable by a marker in the hard copy collection.

There has been no alteration or contamination of original texts. I shall address in the methodologies section of this chapter the research challenges and ethical issues this presents. Each is summarised succinctly later in this chapter for three reasons. Lastly, it draws an appropriate frame around the more detailed, bigger picture that the original archive materials generate. It puts, one might say, the edges and corner pieces of a large and colourful jigsaw immediately in place to await the piecing and fitting together of a much larger whole.

Canterbury Press, , lists twenty-eight works with Morris as lone author plus four co-authored with Kenneth Kaunda. My calculation is twenty- nine with three in partnership with Kenneth Kaunda. Collins, , which cites Kaunda as author and Morris as editor and was published in Britain. Harper, and Foxcroft cites this version. Blackwell, , 4pp. It has large scale, colourful pieces to assemble rather than tiny fragments.

I have chosen interpretive biography as one workable, qualitative tradition of enquiry, developed most notably by Denzin 7 and appreciated by Creswell. The research field is that of a prominent, contemporary Methodist life and its vast reach: The work cannot be other than biographical at one level, drawing massively as it does on the written texts and oral outputs of a life, but its task is interpretive not narrative.

This holistic approach to method appeals and 7 Norman K. Sage Publications, , pp. Creswell gives this methodology attention recognising that the study of an individual, living or deceased, using archival documents and records is gaining popularity. He expects a clear distinction in academic writing between classical and interpretive biography, as is demonstrated throughout this study. Sage, , p. The authors suggest that a methodologically self-conscious researcher adopts a critical design attitude throughout the work rather than the limitation of a catch-all methodology chapter.

This thesis achieves a balance between the two by addressing the main points of methodological principle and design within this materials and literature chapter, subsequently allowing the principles of radical enquiry to operate in the main chapters without excessive comment. Although Morris has been a familiar figure as writer, broadcaster and communicator, especially in Methodist and ecumenical circles, the radical looking undertaken in this project involves a fresh examination of biographical-historical material relating to him, so placing Morris within a wider framework of influence and reach.

Radical looking, as a means of methodological enquiry, provides a fresh lens through which to view and reassess the familiar. The need for extensive information about the subject; 2. A clear understanding of how to position the subject historically, contextually and culturally; 3. The need to keep a keen eye on angle and slant, recognising the multi-layered context of and life; 4. Creswell, Qualitative Enquiry, p. Also referred to later, p. Sage Publications Ltd, , pp. Marxists talk about ideologies and Foucauldians about discourses, but the point is to see through the surface and demonstrate the working mechanisms behind the phenomena.

To take an accurate measure of the man requires this. Thirdly, Brinkmann offers a deconstructive stance: It questions what we take for granted about him. Again, this is very useful methodologically. Interpretive biography adopts a hermeneutics of suspicion when confronted with easy labelling of a person and their life. The names and assumptions adopted by others may or may not stick in the light of critical exploration. With this in mind I aim to speak into and out of the material in ways which are intellectually rigorous, coherent, convinced and as far as possible, jargon free.

The CMC original materials when from press, magazine and media sources inevitably emit something of a journalistic voice. This study, in seeking clarity of expression, has been careful not to echo journalistic voice. Radical reading — of the Morris papers primarily - exposes the purposes and positions Morris has held: Palgrave Macmillan, , p. ISPCK, , p. SAGE, , p. I examine these in the light of other literature and commentary that deal with his work in particular where it exists, or with homiletics, broadcasting, Christian communications and missiology as wider disciplines. There is a basic, radical trinity of personal, research and field questions, all of which feature and intertwine constantly in this project.

Secondly, there are the research questions underpinning the whole project and emerging from the sources, namely: Thirdly there are the radical questions to be asked of the Morris texts and tapes themselves interpretive and the related, gathered literature. In summary, it is interpretive biography alert to four forms of radical enquiry which grounds this work methodologically and seeks as much clarity of voice from Morris as is reasonably possible.

Biographies of 20th and 21st century Christian leaders abound, though not so many of leading British Methodists, and almost all written after the death of their subject. Leslie Weatherhead made the Christian doctrine of redemption credible because he looked and talked and behaved like someone redeemed.

I have discovered that archive collections of life-revealing texts from significant Methodist figures of the contemporary period which have been intentionally sourced, examined and catalogued for the purposes of generating a new piece of qualitative, academic research are in fact few. Kingsley Weatherhead, Leslie Weatherhead: A Personal Portrait London: Travell produced a University of Sheffield doctoral dissertation in on Psychology and Ministry with special reference to Weatherhead, and this biography is a further outcome of that work.

Price drew on the Leslie Weatherhead collection extensively in her PhD research, and added some new material but did not source it. Gowland and Stuart W. Roebuck, Never Call Retreat: The Making of a Leader Leicester: His Personal Journey London: Potter, like Morris, was himself not a systematic theologian, operating frequently as an orator out of the Caribbean narrative tradition and as a practitioner and catalyst for change as a high profile figure in the World Council of Churches.

All this could be applied with ease to Colin Morris: Jagessar worked with published materials, an unpublished archive of sources in the form of correspondence, articles, tape recordings etc. So it is with this study. It is not detrimental to academic detachment: There is nothing dramatically colourful that should grab attention but, like an indefinable piece of blue sky or green grass, it must be given its place in the totality of this project.

Jagessar, Full Life for All: The Work and Theology of Philip A. This rite of passage marked a serious personal commitment to the Christian faith. Northern, working class Methodism of which I was a part revered him, not least because of his Bolton roots. My own father, a committed, cradle Methodist with a living faith died suddenly two years later at the age of fifty-four. He had spoken frequently about Colin Morris and admired tremendously his preaching and principles. I respected my father and absorbed much from this. I read Include me Out! Because of it, I wanted to change the world.

I began by training to be a Methodist local lay preacher. To suggest so would be as ludicrous as it would be embarrassing. I am simply fascinated by the autobiographical points of connection: The key to unlocking that question in the thesis is activated by conscious, radical looking, listening, reading and questioning throughout.

Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Traditions Thousand Oaks: The challenge of race in Central Africa Morris wrote this, his first published text out of Africa, having been minister of Chingola Free Church in the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia since May It is an urgent appeal for the church to speak and act prophetically on the issue of racial justice in general and African exclusion in particular.

Morris reflects on whether his short time in the country gives him sufficient knowledge to speak out, but feels he is not a gradualist: Northern Rhodesia was a segregated society and the book describes the realities of day to day discrimination he first encountered. It is not a spontaneous outburst of feeling but a steady and sustained act of will. The 34 Morris, Anything but This! It is movingly incarnational yet almost embarrassing in tone, read more than fifty years on in multicultural Britain.

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It is the African who is a walking extension of his broom or shovel or dishcloth that they know. But what of the African as a human being? What of the African as a personality who knows love and hatred, who laughs and cries and curses and prays, who is moved by dreams and hopes and fears? What about this African? In short, it documents the rise of the black national leader Kenneth Kaunda in the political impetus which would eventually lead to an African majority in the Legislature. Kaunda and Morris became firm friends, co-campaigners and intellectual sparring partners.

Merfyn Temple, fellow Methodist missionary in Northern Rhodesia at that time contributes a profile of Morris himself to which this study returns from time to time. Temple is struck by the compulsion in Morris to speak the truth at any price. The exchanges are recorded as spoken, with the reader gaining a sense of listening in on a living commentary at a time of momentous change in Northern Rhodesia. They are the great debates of the day incarnated and enfleshed. Their style is sharp, provocative and passionate. To read them off the page is to hear them simultaneously in the head.

Biblical texts are quoted but few given thorough exegesis, a Morris trait. Here, Morris records the events of his early ministry in Northern Rhodesia in biographical style shot through with shrewd commentary on the political 40 Morris, Black Government, p. In a sixty-one page tract published by the Methodist Missionary Society, Morris traces the history of missions in Northern Rhodesia from Livingstone through to the time of writing, and asks what place and role there might be for future missionaries in Zambia.

This forty-five page booklet fuses together the addresses Morris gave during a visit to Britain in , based on a particular speech given to an audience of over two thousand at a Methodist Overseas Missions Rally at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on 27 March. It has a textbook quality examining the colonial legacy, the growth of African nationalism and reflecting on the Christian response. Were Africans the only race capable of bestiality? Each is introduced by and then offers an examination of Scripture: Morris does not quote the work of leading theologians particularly often, but this work is alert to when he does and keen to offer some analysis of whom he chooses and why.

Forsyth and Reinhold Niebuhr chiefly. Confessions of an ecclesiastical coward In his shrunken stomach were a few leaves and what appeared to be a ball of grass. Stylistically this is an astute journalistic ploy and ensures the reader is kept animated, alarmed and enrapt in equal measure. Jesus here is the Chaos-Bringer, unwelcome in an institutionalised Church that keeps itself on the safe side of the barricades. Restore your York Minster! After all my son has only a life expectancy in the early twenties even if he lives, whereas that great edifice will stand to the glory of God for the ages!

Like hell we would! We would snatch the money with greedy hands. In this text, his approach is to shout until he is hoarse and the ears of his readers jangle, drilling into their skulls until they beg for mercy. Morris answers first and then elaborates. The answer is yes. It gives the sense of an orator barely containable in print, as in this example. Guerrilla priests striving for freedom on some or other continent sound romantic even to a good bishop nodding in the Lords, but God help the 61 p. This is the first intentional collection of broadcast talks by Morris, published by Epworth Press.

Two of them he expanded and included in the sermon collection to be commented upon next. The talks are something of a text-book treatment of how to write a BBC Thought for the Day, the running time of which in the s was four minutes and thirty seconds. Up until , Morris continued to write and present Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4 and a wide sweep of these generates many useful insights for this work.

Accessing BBC archives of religious content is frequently complex. It is useful that the Colin Morris Collection gathers a substantial tranche of Morris scripts here. Stylistically this is a tamer, calmer collection but in content theologically rigorous and just as politically charged. Here Morris describes his previous works Include me Out! Morris does this frequently and it is a curious trait for one so accomplished. It is liberally sprinkled with insights from philosophers, playwrights, theologians and illustrations from the contemporary media.

There is a sense, as ever, of an agile brain darting from one source to the next almost at random: He was a broadcaster, radical theologian and World Council of Churches activist. It is a sprawling, untidy, even messy business where the limits of language are often reached and loose ends seem to dangle about all over the place.

And every attempt made throughout Christian history to tidy up the mess by means of some complicated verbal formula generally raised more difficulties than it solved. They have often been reviled, ostracised, excommunicated, imprisoned, tortured, exiled, or killed by the power-holders.

One example illustrates this well. Morris recaps the question paramount in Thessalonica,71 and elsewhere in Corinth 72 connected with the nature of the soul, about the fate of Christians after their death. The book has numerous examples of well researched, entertaining and illuminating fictional letters which encapsulate the presenting New Testament issue and incarnate it contextually.

At the end of Epistles to the Apostle readers have covered an impressive amount of Pauline theology and early Church ethics, without probably realising it. Voight, former Bishop in the Illinois Methodist Conference. The Word is… debased yet revalued; inadequate yet eventful; personal yet corporate; relevant yet divisive; prophetic yet priestly; liturgical and sacramental; structured yet spontaneous; silent yet active; decisive and final.

The choice of these dualisms is revealing because this thesis argues from the outset that Colin Morris has transitioned into and out of potentially opposing guises and spaces throughout his ministry: In assessing what is distinctive about his preaching, writing, speaking and broadcasting in all those fields in the 20th and 21st centuries, I propose that the most accurate territory in which to place him can never be fixed space.

He inhabits not exclusively the studio or the Church pulpit, the political platform or the mission desk, but intriguingly and powerfully a space that embraces and connects all these. This thesis uses the term transcriptive space to conceptualise and vocalise this notion and returns to it in detail. Morris develops the theme of human rights within a Christian apologetic, citing indiscriminate concern, specific compassion, comprehensive contribution and persistent commitment as four distinctively key elements in a Christian approach.

Predictable 75 See chapter seven particularly. Certain sermons are clearly the President of Conference addressing topics and themes that would be expected of him: The bugle is a more humble, vulgar instrument and yet with some rallying power. Even the tone deaf can detect its strident call above the general bedlam…. So it is the bugle for me. Granted it cannot feed the soul on a diet of Trumpet concerti but it has its uses in calling the troops to the rough nourishment of the cookhouse. And that is my kind of faith.

He pays tribute to the late Miss Jean Palk, his secretary for many years, and the person who had the foresight to collect a great deal of the material on which this thesis relies. The scripts are not individually dated. Morris contributes the introduction but no other original material.

Something about Morris and collaborative process is revealed here. It demonstrates his commitment to coherence and consistency both orally and scripted, and the longevity and quality of his friendship with Kenneth Kaunda. Of the editing process he recalls, Once I have selected the raw material, we then explore it together, my job being to get him to explain the bits I find obscure, enigmatic or plainly at odds with other bits. I then go away and produce a draft which is based upon our discussion of his text. This he works on, expanding this, altering that or sometimes scrapping the lot.

But by the end it says what he wants it to say, and a series of unconnected passages written down over a period of time come together to form a theme. We have kept this running collaboration going for over twenty years — since the publication of Black Government? Christian Strategy in the Television Age Morris pays tribute in the preface to the work of the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture 81 and that of F.

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This is a well-researched book and was a highly topical treatise from Morris - he presented a television documentary with the same name - written when he was head of religious broadcasting at the BBC. Much more is offered in chapter six of this study about the period, the religion-media 80 pp. See for example F. Dillistone, Christianity and Symbolism London: Collins, and Myth and Symbol, ed.

Dillistone [and others], Theological Collections, 7 London: His exploration of symbol versus signal pp. See Edmund Leach, Culture and Communication: He was particularly exercised by the dawn of cable, satellite and powerful tele-evangelism out of North America. This is typical fare: They are poisoning the atmosphere with exhaust fumes and industrial smoke, polluting the rivers with sewerage and chemicals, tearing down trees in millions and eroding the soil.

It would be bad enough if they owned the earth, but I merely appointed them caretakers. The nature of monotheism, warnings against reductionism, the contribution of Hebrew scripture and rabbinical folklore to Christian perceptions of God, and even a discussion about divine humour intertwine in an impressive seventy-three pages. He revisits the centrality of Christian ideas in the early history of the BBC and the implication of those in religiously, culturally and morally pluralist s Britain. Religion from the bottom up and the top down, Morris glibly suggests.

It was abbreviated and edited for BBC publication. This paperback gathers together a collection of reflections on Christian communication which reprise, to some extent, the mood and some of the themes of God-in-a-Box but bring added value for the s. A number were originally lectures and each is a skilful example of Christian communication in itself. See The Cambridge Companion to Plato 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, That, in combination with years of well-honed communications practice in the mission field, at the mission desk, in the pulpit and on screen and radio has served to produce a collection of considerable eloquence and expertise, contextually rooted, often doing serious business with a light touch.

This is a collection of six sermons that Morris delivered during Lent in the Meeting House at the University of Sussex and contains shared material with Starting from Scratch already noted. They were published specifically to accompany the broadcasts and are transcribed as delivered on air. Morris states this transparently in the introduction. Morris writes as apologist, but the position he defends at the outset is not doctrinally Christian.

The rest of the book is an exploration into what the raw materials of DIY religion might be, which experts could be turned to for help, and the criteria that would be used to decide whether a religion worked. The questions are addressed and a case constructed with logic, conviction and appeal to a variety of Christian and other faith sources. This is a textbook on preaching using the vehicle of letters to a trainee local preacher in the Methodist Church. Morris was in reality asked for advice on preaching by a young solicitor called Angela and the letters became a series in the Methodist Recorder in , generating a surge of correspondence.

It is an engaging read, deceptively simple, and remains on the reading lists of major theological colleges as an earthed, accessible and deeply human contribution to the teaching of homiletics. An eclectic gathering of BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day scripts, one hundred and nine in total, and infuriatingly undated.

He reflects, The survival of Thought for the Day from when it began as Lift up your Hearts on the Home Service is enough to make the faithful believe in miracles and have atheists, humanists and assorted sceptics shake their heads in despair that all their lobbying, protests, angry phone calls and Parliamentary questions have failed to shift it. Tony Benn contributed this sleeve note. In this book Morris brings his formidable powers of theological and historical analysis to bear on the crisis of our times when the horrors of war have been justified by the misuse of religion that can only make the future more dangerous.

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Colin, as ever, has reminded us of the moral issues involved and has given us hope at a time when we need it. Here is the closest Morris has come to sharing some of the building blocks for his own autobiography. In the form of a photograph and an associated reflection for each, he celebrates the lives of thirty-nine significant others who influenced, schooled, impressed and marked him. Donald Soper and Leslie Weatherhead to name but two. They are moving cameos and essential episodes to note in this critical examination of life and bring much to chapter two. Born in , he was a Labour Member of Parliament for 47 years: It numbers between and items.

Some tapes are home recorded, some professionally recorded at public events and some taken from radio broadcasts. It is quite musical oratory. If an opinion expressed is personal and offered in his own capacity, not as representative of Church or institution, it is always explicitly stated. This part of the collection reveals deep levels of self-awareness and reflects some of the personal wrestling and dilemmas Morris faced being so much in the public eye during his public ministry yet still wanting to retain the collegiality of the Methodist Connexion and be accessible not distant.

There is real poignancy in some pieces. The odd letter, chance encounters and an instinct that I was being prayed for by those who had known me during my early and noisy struggle for a true sense of vocation were reminders that though I had let old friendships fall into disrepair, my old friends were more magnanimous.

I had let go of them, but they clung on to me. Many letters to him are heartfelt and with overwhelming praise for his sermons, speeches, broadcasts and ministry. Some are disappointed and critical, in one instance about remarks made in a Thought for the Day which were heard Morris, Letter to Hartley Victoria College Old Students Association, 15 August Here, for illustration, is his Presidential letter to be read aloud to newly qualified Methodist local preachers throughout the country at their services of accreditation, during his year of office.

I personally owe more than I can ever repay to the ministry of Local Preachers, some of whom had little by way of formal education, but more than compensated for this deficiency by their sure grasp of the sinews of the Gospel. Who they were as much as what they said spoke to my case. And as a result, I am privileged to welcome you as a comrade in this glorious task.

This understandably struck a nerve. Morris subsequently did read the article but his reply to the Editor indicates that he did not wish to modify his original view. These are characteristics which he seeks in other communications media and so it is noteworthy that he rates them here. In , when he wrote monthly, there is a convenient calendar year set. It is clear that in some months, Morris chooses a topic almost at random, most likely under pressure from a looming deadline. But in others he offers theological commentary, takes a stand on current events and offers a window onto the era.

One is a typescript addressing the derogatory use of mental images in the media for certain members of society and appears to be directed to the Methodist Association of Youth Clubs. The twenty-five items here must only represent a fraction of his total output.

The predominant topics are the theology and practice of preaching, issues in Christian mission, and the relationship of Christian communications and public broadcasting. A University of Ulster Convocation Lecture addresses the issue of impartiality in published media and broadcasting, the place of the BBC charter and reflects on extremism and principles of liberty in Northern Ireland at that period. That word is for academics, broadcasters and media personnel in the public sphere.

The Spectator carried an abridged version of The Hour after Midnight in Chapter six examines and is greatly enriched by some of this material. The article uses this material. Policy discussions around Methodist mission personnel feature from the late s. Morris introduces Intimations of Immortality as follows: It is a helpful record of many significant moments, not least when and why controversies arose.

There is coverage for example of a highly charged exchange in concerning the separate identity of black-led churches further referred to in chapter five. The connection has not been detrimental to journalistic impartiality when reporting on him. This case study features in chapter seven. They are raw, basic sources with moments of illumination. Two examples illustrate this briefly. Some typewritten notes on rough paper from, it would seem, the Northern Rhodesia years explore attitudes towards women and read as something of an early think-piece on feminist theology.

She had been serving in Zambia since and was ordained there in Possibly these notes relate to his defence of that position. Charlton, a journalist, wrote Spark in the Stubble covering the Northern Rhodesia years. He goes on to subvert an idea popular at the time that the United Church of Zambia - the successful product of an organic union scheme — should be held up uncritically as a beacon of light to the British Churches.

Alas, it just aint so. And I know whereof I speak, having for over ten years been involved in union negotiation and then having to live and work with the results. It ought to be so that once Churches unite they are freed for mission, but in reality they often find themselves bogged down beyond their heads in a plethora of problems concerned with property and money and redundancy and manpower. He goes on to suggest that if shoots of resurrection out of the death of Christian Britain are to flourish in the twenty-first century, it is women who will bring the new metaphors, new images and new experiences of God.

Perhaps the early notes reveal something foundational and formational for this later argument. It is penned in a thundering Include Me Out! Somewhere in the bowels of Yorkshire TV there must be a team working week by week to plumb ever greater depths of vulgarity. Morris held no BBC post at the time of writing. Apart from their obvious historical interest at a unique moment in Southern African history, they include what Morris was writing at the time on behalf of the newly formed Liberal Party, so it is political ideology and manifesto material, shedding important light on his passions.

We believe, and history vindicates our belief, that in the enduring human qualities of truth, goodness, charity or judgement and chivalry will triumph. They could hardly have relied on fair coverage by the Federation press of the time. It can be done. It has been done before. We intend to do it. The questions range from the morality of Jesus being presented on stage as folk- hero superstar, through industrial strike action proposed for 1st May and the ethics of fair trading across global markets.

Morris responds to this latter question with illustrations from the Zambian copper market. At another point he spars gamely with Lawson about the role of the Church in politics. No comment on any particular review is necessary here. The insights generated are drawn upon as applicable in the main chapters.

Some are preached on radio and television, then transcribed for print. Others are already in published collections, as referred to above. A few, thankfully, are complete texts, though Dr Morris famously preached without notes, text or autocue. The sermons from his year as Conference President appear in various forms: In straight interview format Morris interrogated among others the controversial playwright Denis Potter and Donald Coggan on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury.

Epworth, , pp. The Collection holds in the range of scripts and has raised something of a methodological dilemma. The subject matter of certain scripts is apposite to the topics of the main chapters and has been extracted where relevant and illuminating. Future research could usefully adopt an alternative sampling strategy and invite examination of a swathe of Thought for the Day scripts over a certain time period, tracking and exposing the socio-theological commentary Morris has offered to the times.

The Starting from Scratch programmes are here and a comparison of the book content against the television output is worth attention. Blackwell, , p. For video copy see [CMC ]. Not everything has been kept, and the release of items is slow. I have intentionally chosen source analysis, working with materials generated without the intervention of a researcher. Dr Morris made no request that I should not conduct interviews with those who know him, or indeed with himself. I chose not to do so, concluding that the multiplicity of voices would be too complex and boundaries needed to be drawn.

That can be the work of his biographer, the aspiration of a future researcher or indeed myself as I pursue further in articles and teaching material important themes that have been identified here. Future research may well benefit from such an exercise, particularly if attempting discourse or textual analysis across a swathe of like materials such as Thought for the Day scripts or the Start Your Own Religion sermons. However, this particular project, recognising its focus, purpose and constraints, instead approaches any textual, audio or visual analysis with the discipline of a theological researcher, the scrutiny of a journalist-broadcaster and the heart of a preacher-homiletician.

If these fallible and human applications are insufficient, I am wholly responsible. Sage, , pp. Sage Publications Ltd, , 14 pp. Too much learning is driving you insane! The popular apologist has to take a chance, over-simplifying complex truth and affirming it in a clear, confident voice. If his argument is shot to pieces under him, so be it. He picks himself up, dusts himself off and has another go. Colin Morris, Bullet-Point Belief 4. Is any more substantial, robust and academic assessment of his apologetics really achievable?

A case for the Christian faith which bears his particular mark can be exposed, even if not tidily and systematically, through the commitment already made to radical enquiry in the elements of looking, listening, reading and questioning. These frequently emerge from the theological, missiological and socio-political trends of the time and are of value because this study remains committed to a thoroughly contextual examination of Morris on a wider map.

In his letter from January to the Methodist minister and theologian Rev Dr William Strawson, 2 Morris writes, Now about my blessed obsession with apologetics and the neglect of it in the modern Church. When I visited Wesley College I tried to make out the case for someone or some group to do for this generation what Chesterton and Lewis did for theirs. See the appropriate methodological references at 3. It appears Strawson was considering writing such a book, and Morris is enthusiastic, offering to act as an unpaid broker between Strawson and Collins publishing house.

I suppose I spend as much time as most people in the Church trying to put ideas across, multi-media, and I know how often I try it on, papering over the cracks in a structure of thought with a certain natural glibness. Most people surely live out their lives on the basis of a number of working hypotheses which generally remain unarticulated, but they are simple axioms — political, economic, moral, the lot.

They may be right or wrong, but they exist, and unless the religious dimension in life is quite different, which I reject as an elitist view of the nature of truth, there are bedrock ideas, principles or whatever that make equal sense to a bus conductor and an archbishop. He is quick to revere in this letter G. Chesterton 5 and C.

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Lewis 6 as classic apologists both pleading the intelligibility case and demonstrating mastery of it. Though touching in its modesty, this self-assessment is flawed and this chapter argues that Morris may be regarded as a sturdy, practical, Christian apologist, committed to intelligible simplicity in communicating faith.

Lewis, Essay Collection London: HarperCollins, , p. This necessary question spawns less than systematic answers. Wm Eerdmans Publishing Co, , pp. Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes, , p. Inter-Varsity Press, , p. Methodist Theology as Classical Christianity Sheffield: Cliff College Publishing, John Wesley in his practical theological writings and Charles in his hymnody always returned to the particular emphasis of evangelical Arminianism, as Cracknell notes,11 and Morris is loyally, predictably Wesleyan in upholding a doctrine of prevenient, saving grace for all, distinct from Calvinist orthodoxy.

But Cracknell goes on to argue that a distinctive Wesleyan apologetics is hard to specify from the preaching and teaching of leading British Methodists in recent history. John Scott Lidgett, W. Sangster, Leslie Weatherhead or Donald Soper voiced little denominational defence of the faith, he claims. As this chapter develops, I shall be keen to highlight anything in Morris that would appear to evidence a Methodist apologetics strand but it is not something that shouts. There is a slight but intriguing case to be made that in Morris at his most strident there are glimpses of presuppositional Christian apologetics arising out of the Reformed tradition, despite Morris not being recognisably in that field of influence.

His occasional leanings though suggest a milder and far more workable Clarkian not Van Tilian approach. At times Morris is militant in making the case that biblical revelation, not reason, offers the most reliable foundation from which evidence 11 Cracknell Our Doctrines, pp.

It is revealing that Morris says, One of the lessons I learned at the time was that the No. This differentiates Morris clearly from the Reformed view. Presbyterian and Reformed, His presuppositional apologetics has two clear steps according to Boa and Bowman. The first is to demonstrate that any non-Christian systems of thought eventually fall into irrationalism, and the second to advocate the Christian world view as offering the necessary presuppositional foundation for thought and life. He criticised traditional apologetics for allowing, through rationalism, probabilistic arguments that detracted from the certainty of faith and the authority of Scripture.

Boa and Robert M. Bowman Jr, Faith has its Reasons Waynesboro: Authentic Publishing, , p His signature emphasis on Scripture providing a rational source of knowledge is usefully revisited and critiqued in a Festschrift; Ronald H. Nash, The Philosophy of Gordon H. Clark Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, Scientists, he argues, only deduce from certain elemental facts. Everyone has a starting point. More completely, God has spoken in the Bible. Clark, like Morris, favours John 1. Morris makes this claim in relation to Marxism and Humanism, as will be shown. A complex, cosmic God came down in Christ offering humanity a set of axioms from which to interpret life.

This section is also revisited by Boa and Bowman p. I find no specific credit given to Clark by Morris in the sources, but that would not be unusual. Morris often wrote as a practical theologian under pressure, responding to context, with perhaps a passing, fleeting reference to the work of others but rarely specific detail. Not because Morris rejects their philosophical credibility necessarily, but because he has wearied of them over the years and he is now an apologist seeking soul food as much as mind fodder.

Incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, evident in both attested history and divine revelation. Groothuis argues in similar vein, valuing the various proofs for God as cumulatively stating the case for deism but regarding them as insufficient for Christian theism. It needs revealed theology, communicated and discerned through the sacred texts. In Starting from Scratch 22 and Start your own Religion 23 Morris as a confessional apologist is equally pragmatic and practical and employs this type of cumulative case strategy as will be shown.

If it gets the job done, it will be justified. If as argued above something of the modern, rational presuppositionalist can be detected within Morris, revealing Clarkian connections, so too can the more classical, confessional apologist who has truth not only to defend but to tell, as in 20 See Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics Downers Grove: IVP Academic, , p. Cowan and Stanley N. Zondervan, , p. Morris, Starting from Scratch London: Chesterton whom Morris reveres. This may draw widely, in a catholic spirit, on history, revelation, reason and empirical evidence if necessary in the service of truth.

This is a principled not a rashly over-accommodating position. It is his instinct to broadcast not narrowcast. Start your own Religion begins with his wide, general premise that human beings are incurably religious, with desires, cravings and impulses that look to be satisfied. The most profound of these are love and fear which well up in the human psyche from a natural, evolutionary thrust. Canterbury Press, , p. Morris needs revelation and reason in his truth seeking and telling, and McCollough suggests that the protagonists eventually address both in a complementary way.

If good apologetics is about practice as McGrath insists, in the sense of identifying barriers to faith and offering compelling argument that clears the ground for commitment, Morris is a formidable, seasoned practitioner. Yet, at the same time, it is the most structured piece of apologetic writing I have found in the hundreds of catalogued items, so with this I begin. Morris, in familiar prophetic-ranting style is clear that he has only heard second or third hand, or read at a distance of the theological ferment of the s in the developed world.

He retraces his learning journey briefly: Baker Books, , pp. Then to Northern Rhodesia: Immediately I became schizoid. As a political scientist I responded to revolution. The Biblical insight gave me an understanding of history - but the Church basing its action upon traditional Christianity locked me in. I couldn't get at what I saw needed to be done.

He adopts, unusually, a highly structured, bullet-pointed approach which makes the case for Christianity arising from his immediate past context. After consideration, I have chosen to reproduce this text in full below and give it due place in the main body of this chapter. I am keen that as a recognisable early piece of contextual apologetics it should preface everything else that is put forward. The skeleton is set out below. I use upper and lower cases and underlining as Morris does.

Association with the fivefold ministry of the Risen Lord in the world: Not taking Jesus where he is not, but the identification with him where he has already gone before. Based on primitive relationship in which he said; not worship, or pray to, or even adore, but Follow. No longer conceive of God apart from His world. All I know of God has come through his people: In other words, God as a self-existent personality apart from the world to whom I try to latch on through the offices of the Church as a kind of mystical exercise I could no longer recognise. Incarnation — a coming down of God and no going up of man.

The end of the spiritual introspection. Altizer — God dies when he becomes incarnate in Jesus…a play on words…seems to me meaningless in language. No more talk of God dying than you can of a light being dark, sun being cold…for in Biblical terms God must refer to things of ultimate significance. Not to suggest the end of mysticism. But this is rare in our society. Most unable to attain it but much of our traditional approach presupposes it. Emphasis upon the Lordship of Christ. His rule in the world rather than upon Saviourhood.

Not to suggest that he does not save men, but this is the strong affirmation which takes men at their vigour rather than one which seems to apply him at point of their weakness. The curse of denominationalism is that it makes us more concerned with religion than with life. Open, aware, transparent, utterly available. Also chapter seven of this thesis. My affirmation — Christ behind revolutions of this world.

Spirit abroad in world; Christ in Church. For me it is the other primitive statement. Jesus is the anonymous neighbour. Classical pattern has been St Paul. Thank God for it. But it has tended to be assumed as the first class way with all else second class. But Word becomes flesh in specific concrete situations.

Buying way to heaven. Jesus a better psychologist. Where your treasure is, there shall your heart be also. Now this is not to claim that to say Yes at one point in a specific situation is enough. But it does mean that there need be no agonising that one has not made an absolute committal at one time. The attraction of life theory. By the sheer attraction of our lives we bring people to Christ 4. A saint may not be eligible for Church membership yet shares the agony of Christ 5.

Must not parody this truth. Focus and centre of their lives. There is a self-validating sense of righteousness they get in going to Church they cannot get in the world. Does this deny the Church? A spiritualising of Jesus. Instead the idea of Community of Faith took me. Those who preserve a historical deposit of Faith. How would I know about the word made flesh if not for the apostolic testimony?

In other words, whether there will be a recognisable Gospel depends upon its transmission through a Community of Faith. If worship and mission go hand in hand eg. In its unity, catholicity — demonstration that only in community can the truth be actualised. Primacy of Preaching To point to the Living Word through the spoken word from the written word.

Hence identity is blurred. Only known to Christ. The Secret of the Kingdom. All images of imperceptibility, of growth. It is His methodology. It is a system out of which Christ breaks again and again. It is in flux. It is in constant change. Its identity is blurred. I must try to be faithful. Hodder and Stoughton, , p. Westminster, , attempts to portray him as more conservative and orthodox but Greschat fails to find traditional Christology and soteriology in his approach.

He notes his critique of Catholicism and Pietism and his understanding of the Kingdom of God as primarily ethical imperative. Barth and Brunner c and later H. But, fortunately for me, I was not condemned to the mere scholar's cloistered life. I could not treat the matter as an academic quest.

I was kept close to practical conditions. I was in a relation of life, duty, and responsibility for others. I could not contemplate conclusions without asking how they would affect these people, and my word to them, in doubt, death, grief, or repentance. I could not call on them to accept my verdict on points that came so near their souls.

How much theology do we need? Hardly enough to make denominational squabbles worth the candle. Just enough theology to support recognisable Christian action in the world. That much and no more. SCM Press, Ltd, , p.