Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About ten centuries before Christ, Egypt's Rameses III conquered in sea battle a coalition of Trojans, Achaeans and Philistines. The better to exploit her new-won sea power, Egypt moved her capital from Thebes, 400 miles up river, to Tanis, 60 miles from modern Alexandria, close to the sea but not too close to suffer from pirates. The religious capital remained at Thebes, ruled by Amon's high priests. Smendes, sprig of a rich merchant family, founded the 21st (Tanis) Dynasty. His successor, Psousennes I, reigned 46 years...
...interdict should stand indefinitely. But "innocent people of the parish, and those who repent of their crime," could go to neighboring churches, if they made certain acts of submission. Said the Archbishop: "The purpose of this decree is not revenge, since revenge is unknown to the Church of Christ; its purpose is to lead erring children . . . lovingly back to their Father's House...
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of religious paintings. The first kind, in order to be appreciated, requires a certain amount of previous religious feeling. Its subject, whether it be the Madonna or Christ, is what moves and stirs the spectator. The technique and sincerity of the artist is of incidental importance. The second kind of religious painting is executed without any dependence upon the subject or on the spectator's already present attitude toward it. The artist relies mainly upon his ability to inspire a new and fresh feeling: he does not base his painting upon the presupposition that...
...Picta," by Van der Weyden, is an example of the second, more genuinely artistic type of painting. The artist's interpretation of the dying Christ, far from being an attempt to reenforce the religious aspect of the situation, successfully conveys the more human and personal side of His sacrifice. (Here we find the influence of the Italian Renaissance.) Van der Weyden directs his appeal to the individual as a whole rather than to the religious element within the individual. Christ has become less of a far-distant object of veneration and more of an immediate source of sympathy and feeling...
...haired Harry Ward, 66, famed for his persistent defense of Russia and" Communism. Said Fellow Traveler Ward at the conference dinner: "The holy war abroad to save civilization and God from the atheist barbarians is also the holy war at home to save democracy from the Reds, to rescue Christ from the anti-Christ of materialistic Marxism. These are more powerful slogans than those which deceived and betrayed us into the slaughter of 1917. The leading voices of European imperialism, our own profiteering patriots and pothouse politicians, have suddenly all become pious...