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...reading of church history serves only as preparation for his much more fundamental philosophical attack. He doubts if any infallible statements are possible, whether from Popes, councils or even the Bible. At this point the argument strikes home, not only for Rome but for traditionalists in all branches of Christendom. Only God is infallible, Kűng says; propositions of faith are not God's word but at best the divine message translated by man's words-often inadequate, open to misunderstanding and changeable in different languages or contexts. Because there are half-truths and errors containing elements...
...attempting to articulate fatuities, the cast pulls out all the glottal stops. Caine shuttles between Anglo-Saxon, German and Cockney. Oscarsson, a Swede, is absurdly fanatic, with energy and witches to burn. Sharif, the first Near Eastern Westphalian, has, as ever, the wettest eyes in Christendom. Yet it is Clavell who bears prime responsibility for this drive-in Mother Courage. His battle scenes are stagy and confused; even his anachronistic editorials ("War is all I have") ring false. Clavell misunderstands the nature of historic evil, of political hysteria, and of war itself -Thirty Years' or any time, anywhere...
Uptown, where the ties to colonial New York are not as strong, the problem is different. There, New York's architects began construction in 1891 of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which they intended as one of the great cathedrals of Christendom...
...Church in the U. S., and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church into a 25-million member Church of Christ Uniting. The other would merge the Episcopal Church with the Roman Catholic Church. Thus, the Episcopal Church stands as the pivot for the possible creation of a single church within Christendom of mind-boggling size and implications...
Chattel to Partner. Yet obstacles to full ecclesiastical equality for women still exist throughout a large part of Christendom. Eastern Orthodoxy, retaining its Middle Eastern traditions, is perhaps the slowest to accept women as equals. Women are completely barred, for instance, from even setting foot on the monastic peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece. Women also have a long way to go in Roman Catholicism and Judaism...