Word: christendom
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Brown warned against "Protestant pride which says 'at last the Catholics have found out the real truth about the Reformation.'" He said that the Protestants must also admit their responsibility, "remembering that the high, cost of the Reformation was the disruption of Western Christendom...
...hajj for all Moslems, from fellah to philosopher, makes it clear that the spirit of Mohammed's faith is not so easily stilled. Far more likely than slow extinction is that Islam will gradually undergo the same kind of transition that Christianity went through, as the concept of Christendom fell before secularization. In time, Islam may lose its overtones of an ideology governing all of life-as Christianity did in the Middle Ages-to become, stripped down and freshened, simply one of man's many ways of encountering the mystery...
Lent isn't what it used to be. Throughout Christendom, churches are relaxing the rigors of the traditional time of penance before Easter...
...transforming the organisms of the secular city. In sum, the new church will be a return to the Biblical notion of the "salt of the earth." Germany's great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner argues that Christianity is already "in diaspora," as the triumphal mass church of Christendom's past evolves into...
...sense, God-the personal, omnicompetent deity of Christendom-has been dying for centuries. His lordship over the world has been threatened by every scientist who discovered a new natural law of organic growth, by every invention of man that safeguarded him against "act of God" disaster, by every new medicine that tamed a disease and solved another mystery of life. But it is the 20th century, the age of technological miracle, that has seen the triumph of the Enlightenment and the apparent banishment of God from the universe-even, thanks to Freud, from the human soul. Writing from his German...