Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commit themselves to a program but to widen the party's field "and bring in all who want free progress." "Like the parson who was against sin." he said, "I am against Socialism. . . . The great conflict to come will be fundamentally a conflict between God and the anti-Christ." His audiences applauded the generalities, but were not satisfied. "It's not good enough," said one young lady listener. "We want something more concrete...
...already doubled since V-J day. Their plans were ambitious: a three-year evangelical program, in which 1,000-odd ministers and lay preachers will be expected to gain 3,000,000 converts.*To rebuild the 500 Protestant churches destroyed by American bombs, Japan's interdenominational Church of Christ has budgeted $3,500,000-90% of it to come from U.S. contributions...
About a month ago they found the first traces of the most primitive Viruvians, who lived in caves cut into the hard-baked soil. About the time of Christ they were replaced by (or developed into) the Chavin people. Step by step, as the centuries passed, the tight little valley's life became more complex. With the Mochica culture (500-900 A.D.), it reached a peak of sophistication. The Mochicas fertilized their fields with guano and watered them with intricate irrigation ditches, one of which was 113 kilometers (70 miles) long. They wove marvelous textiles, had a highly centralized...
...pamphlet, What Is This Neo-Orthodoxy? (TIME, May 6), eleven Unitarian disbelievers (in the deity of Christ and the sinfulness of man) had lambasted Protestantism's growing neo-orthodox movement with everything in the book. The Unitarian polemicists concentrated their attack on neo-orthodoxy's belief in the Doctrine of Original Sin, indulging themselves in such five-fingered epithets as "totalitarian religion," " 'Mother fixation' upon an idealized past...
Catholic art often depicts Christ, Mary and the saints with Mongoloid features. Though priests do not teach that Christ was Chinese, the Sinofication of icons has the Church's official blessing. (Not approved: a painting of the Madonna and Child which alarmed many Chinese because Mary looked too much like the late Manchu Dowager Empress...