Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scuffle was still going on: it had shifted from politics to religion. In a telegram to Tennessee's Senator McKellar (a Presbyterian), the Rev. Joseph Broady (a Presbyterian) of Findlay, Ohio charged that Williams was "utterly unworthy for any Government position" because he had "renounced the Divinity of Christ." (This apparently referred to the fact that after being helped through college by the Presbyterian Church, Williams was not ordained a minister, instead almost became a Unitarian clergyman. Unitarians do not believe Christ uniquely divine...
...David S. Burgess, Manhattan Congregational minister, cried that the attack was "unChristian and un-American." Requiring every Government official to accept the divinity of Christ, said he, "would bar all Jews, nonbelievers, and a good percentage of Protestants from state and federal appointments. If it had been applied in the past, it would have eliminated many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution from participating in national affairs." He might have added Presidents Taft and the two Adamses, Justice Brandeis...
...When Christ came into the world, He found the church loaded down with ritual and formalism. . . . The spirit of religion [had] been displaced by empty form. ... To build up an internal rather than an external religion . . . was Christ's mission on earth. Few and simple were the forms He set up or sanctioned. . . . Far be it from any true follower of Christ to minimize the spiritual value of these symbols, [but] can we imagine that . . . Christ . . . would regard [their] observance or nonobservance . . . as of sufficient importance to justify controversy among His followers, and their separation into rival factions? . . . What...
...biggest body of opinion in the U.S. last week gave the No. 1 plank in President Roosevelt's foreign policy all the support that he could ask or want. In Cleveland, at a conference sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, leaders of some 25,000,000 U.S. Protestants voted unanimous, unconditional approval of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for world security...
...newald masterpiece is a polyptych of six hinged wood panels, each depicting scenes from the story of Christ's life. Painted about 1516 for a convent at Isenheim, Alsace, the intense, now-gruesome, now-radiant Altar Screen is easily the most important set of medieval paintings any German produced. Most experts agree that the work ranks above the best of Holbein the Younger, Dürer and Cranach...