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...brothers united by baptism and faith but no outward ties. Today, he says, "all churches are aware that a unity that cannot be grasped is just as unbiblical as a faith that is kept hidden. It has now also become impossible to believe that the Western-European type of Christendom is the definite and normative form of Christian life and faith. We have learned that no member can pretend to be the entire body...
Blumenkranz attributes the rise of artistic anti-Semitism to the Crusades, holy wars in which Jews, as unbelievers, were forbidden to serve. They were clearly set aside from the rest of Christendom, forced to live in ghettos, made to wear special clothing, confined to such shunned occupations as money-lending. What brought the era of anti-Semitic art to an end in the 16th century, Blumenkranz says, was the artistic sophistication of the Renaissance, with its emphasis on realism, and the Reformation. Once Catholics and Protestants began to fight one another, they had less interest in baiting Judaism...
Trinitarian Mystery. Midway between total faith and total rejection lies the intellectual agony of Christendom: the task of interpreting God's message to man in doctrine. Perhaps the only constant in dogmatic history is development, change and discovery. The original kerygma (proclamation) of Christ's apostles, as transmitted to his followers in an oral tradition of Jesus' teachings, had a pristine simplicity. As Paul put it in II Corinthians, "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself." But Paul himself, as much Greek as Jew, used a different and more powerful language to proclaim Christ than...
Poland's Roman Catholic Church has been planning for a decade to solemnly celebrate the nation's conversion to Christendom 1,000 years ago this year. Religious ceremonies are scheduled for many parts of the country, but the highlight will come May 3, the Polish national holiday, when thousands of Poles will journey to the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa, home of the nationally cherished "Black Madonna." The Communist regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka, which has conducted a running feud with the church, is desperately anxious to avoid or at least diminish any public demonstration of Roman Catholic power...
...Divinity School anniversary celebration continues today. Johannes C. Hoekendijk, professor of Missions at Union Theological Seminary, will speak on "Christendom in an Expanding and Shrinking World," at 4:30 p.m. this afternoon in Memorial Church...