Word: christe
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...voyage that led to the discovery of the New World. But in her time, the Spanish Queen was equally renowned as a patroness of the arts. At her bidding, Juan de Flandes and Miguel Sithium painted 47 miniature panels between 1498 and 1504 portraying the lives of Christ and Mary for her private chapel. All but two were probably by Juan de Flandes, a Fleming whose sophisticated fusion of courtliness and naiveté, and languid, doll-like figures were much prized in the Northern European Renaissance. Painter Albrecht Dürer, when he saw the panels in 1521, exclaimed...
...suggest that history and a Higher Authority than the Council of Churches will determine whether a nation that spends $1.1 billion to celebrate Christ's birthday as a drinking occasion is sick rather than a sinner. As a father, a university faculty member and a human being concerned with the happiness and welfare of my fellow man, I prefer to remain "inappropriately abstinent...
...That Hut." Wherever he went, he had a tendency to lecture the troops, even to preach. To Christian and non-Christian alike, he emphasized the divinity of Christ, appealed for stoical acceptance of death on the battlefield and quoted Sherwood Anderson, Joan of Arc, Shakespeare and the Bible. As the troops were eating Christmas dinner at Cu Chi northwest of Saigon, Romney made a little sermonette, suited, if for anything at all, for Good Friday. "We have to lose ourselves for others," he declared, as his audience listened in silence. "Some have to lose our lives young and some when...
...time who preached a primitive form of love power, but Western churches are generally abhorred by the hippies as irrelevant and square. Instead, they display a considerable interest in the occult on the theory that the important levels of spiritual consciousness are those that lie beyond man's reason. "Christ studied the occult," contends one Los Angeles believer, explaining dubiously that "he learned to walk on water...
...full-grown elephant, which can grow up to six feet long and weigh as much as 50 Ibs., was valued on a par with jade and gold by the early Chinese, who carved it into intricate designs and tiny plaques. Cleveland's finely chiseled plaque of Christ with the twelve Apostles, probably intended for a book cover and executed in Germany around A.D. 970, shortly after Otto the Great founded the Holy Roman Empire, is an unusual example that shows how Otto-nian workshops combined early Christian design with Saxon severity. Seven centuries later, Adam Lenckhardt used a single...