Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second highest papal decoration. Onetime Argentine President Justo received the top decoration, the Supreme Order of Christ...
...highlights of the show were not the souvenirs nor the Queen's tureens. Poking about an auctioneer's office in Chelsea, Art Dealer Sidney Sabin had found a dusty, amazingly expert canvas of Christ crowned with thorns. He cleaned it up, found it to be a genuine Van Dyck, and happily toted it to the Fair...
...went to the public auction of a struggling little Disciples of Christ publication (circ. about 600). No other prospective customers showed up, so Dr. Morrison got the Christian Century for $1,500 cash...
...slender, decorous man with old-world manners, Dr. Morrison wears gold-rimmed glasses that do not quite hide the fire in his eyes. Even in his youth, he never lacked for words. Like his father, he became a minister of the Disciples of Christ, a denomination originally formed by Presbyterians who wanted less sectarianism and more church unity. Once in his preaching career Dr. Morrison, in the pulpit of a church he was visiting, discovered a clock with a warning sign: "Preach not over 30 minutes." Dr. Morrison preached right on past the deadline...
...strictly theological issues, such standards led the Century to oppose fundamentalism (when fundamentalism v. liberalism was a burning issue), to crusade for unity among Protestants (in 1917 it abandoned its affiliation with the Disciples of Christ and became frankly non-denominational), to take a position that was pro-ecumenical but anti-Roman Catholic...