Word: christe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue is particularly difficult for the dean because, as Epps told The Crimson in June, similar reasoning was used to keep Harvard Christians in Action, a controversial student organization that included student members of the Boston Church of Christ, off campus two years...
...Theater: Boston's elegant old theaters feature some of Broadway's biggest shows. I've seen "Les Miserables" and "Jesus Christ Superstar," among other performances. And since you're now the proud owner of a Harvard ID card, you're eligible for student rush tickets. Just before the show, most of the theaters sell their left over seats deeply discounted. But call ahead to find out what time student rush goes on sale and show up early, because the lines do get long...
...longer. The first modest assault on the long dominance of the King James version came in 1952, when the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S. released the Revised Standard Version. Thanks to 350 years of discoveries in archaeology and philology, the Revised Standard more accurately, if rather less poetically, reflected the original documents than did the King James. It quickly became the authorized text for most mainline Protestants. And after that trickle, the floodgates were opened...
...market display a keen solicitude for their target readers, protecting them from tricky phrases that might call for a moment's reflection or, in some instances, from politically incorrect sentiments. Thus the 1995 The New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Version renders God as "Father-Mother" and portrays Christ as ascending to sit at "the mighty hand" of the Father-Mother rather than "the right hand," thus keeping left-handed readers from feeling slighted...
EXONERATED. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, influential Lutheran theologian hanged in 1945 for high treason against Germany; by a Berlin court, which ruled that a 1946 law nullifying Nazi-era judgments formally overturned the death sentence an SS tribunal had imposed. Bonhoeffer, whose writings held up the suffering Christ as a model of submission to God's will, had denounced Hitler as the "anti-Christ." He died at 39, one month before Germany surrendered...