Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joyce Bennett led a communion service attended by the Bishop of Kingston and 40 other clergymen in Church House, London...
...watching as Botha and his apartheid regime rape the country. Congress must leave Botha to his peep-show and begin taking the real steps in freeing South Africa's Blacks--military aid. "Apartheid will be dismantled and its victims will remember who helped to destroy this evil system," said Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, "and President Reagan will be judged harshly by history...
...surprisingly, the women in Norway's government are besieging traditional enclaves of male privilege. Minister of Church and Education Kirsti Kolle Grondahl recently said that she "would love to" appoint the first woman bishop in the state's Lutheran Church, whose male clerics, she says, still "persecute" their female colleagues. Inger Pedersen, chairwoman of parliament's Justice Committee, is drafting an amendment to the constitution, which now limits inheritance of the Norwegian throne to men, to include female royal heirs. The change would mean that Crown Prince Harald's daughter, Princess Martha Louise, who turned 15 last week, could eventually...
Just before Augustine's time, the Roman Empire had officially embraced Christianity. As a new bishop, Augustine was still hoping to use reason to win over the maverick sects that were disrupting Christendom. But by A.D. 400 he was turning to the state to enforce doctrinal conformity. St. Jerome, the translator of the Latin Bible, wrote approvingly, "Catholics revere you and accept you as the second founder of the ancient faith, and -- which is a mark of greater fame -- all the heretics hate you." Indeed, one band of them almost managed to assassinate the troublesome bishop. Augustine's reliance...
Augustine began work on The City of God, said to be the first philosophy of history ever written, in response to the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths in A.D. 410. By the time other barbarians, the Vandals, had vanquished Hippo in A.D. 430, its august bishop was already dead at age 75. The hordes destroyed the city but preserved Augustine's library of writings. It was as if they sensed that the West might need to rely on his words for sustenance as the ancient world died away...