Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resurrection": the distinction here between the Resurrection as historical fact and theological affirmation is confused. Assent to the Resurrection in the latter sense should not be taken to mean acceptance of the historicity of the Gospel accounts. In any case assessment of these accounts as of all such ancient texts is first of all a question of the most sophisticated kind of expert study and at this level should be left to the specialists. Historians of the rise of Christianity have long known how to understand and appreciate the midrashic or legendary "mistletoe" that attached itself to the early records...
...idylls grew like plants in the soil f ancient Greece...
...interim he has bought about 2,400 objects for his collection which he works at with as much archaeological curiosity as artistic love. Even the dog he gave the late Queen Louise is a Pekinese named Eisei, and she laps water from a modern Scandinavian imitation of an ancient Chinese stoneware bowl placed on a square of Chinese carpet in the palace's museum room...
...nation's most precious artifacts-a gold-plated sword dating from Sweden's Iron Age. As the young Crown Prince, Gustaf in 1926 visited the Orient, where he met Swedish archaeologists busy uncovering China's prehistoric ages. Fascinated by the similarity between Viking and ancient Chinese bronze objects, Gustaf began collecting, helped stock Stockholm's Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities...
...meaningful and symbolic choice: from lona during the sixth century, the Irish missionary St. Columba set forth to Christianize the wild and pagan Scots. There MacLeod sought to build a cooperative community of dedicated Christians who would unite work, study and prayer-a modern Protestant counterpart of the ancient monastic ideal...