Word: baptismal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visser 't Hooft, one major change in ecclesiastical outlook created by the World Council is that Protestants no longer justify their disunity by saying that they all nonetheless belong to the "invisible church"-the concept of a band of Christian brothers united by baptism and faith but no outward ties. Today, he says, "all churches are aware that a unity that cannot be grasped is just as unbiblical as a faith that is kept hidden. It has now also become impossible to believe that the Western-European type of Christendom is the definite and normative form of Christian life...
...like a highly flammable illusion through the record-breaking heat of early July. The Mayor's Office moved in nervously with quantities of community meetings and police re-inforcements at every hint of an outbreak. New Yorkers began to wonder if Lindsay's first summer would end without a baptism of violence in the ghettos. But, looking back, people will associate the summer of '66 with East New York, one of the city's many little-known ghettos, where the traditional Italian population has rapidly fled before an in-migration of Puerto Ricans and Negroes...
Most Memorable. Other documents regarding Vermeer's life are scarce, testifying mainly to his baptism in 1632, his financial straits, and the fact that when he died in 1675, at 43, he left his widow and eleven children a bread bill of 617 guilders, for which two paintings were given in payment. For all that, it seems Vermeer enjoyed some celebrity while he lived: a French nobleman recorded in his diary in 1663 that he had made a special trip from The Hague to Delft just to visit Vermeer's studio. No self-portrait of Vermeer as such...
...Luci Johnson's first serious exposure to the pitfalls of being a President's daughter. Having already been christened in the Episcopal Church, she did not, strictly speaking, need a second baptism at the time of her conversion. Luci nonetheless requested and received the sacrament, prompting public complaint that she had gratuitously slighted the Episcopal Church and ecumenical spirit...
...that matter, most Protestant churches themselves give full sacramental character only to baptism and the Eucharist. Lutherans and Anglicans regard the other sacraments that Catholics hold sacred (ordination, confirmation, marriage, penance and extreme unction) as salutary but subordinate...