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...Will Be Done." Two conflicting traditions of religious painting, almost as old as Christendom, are revealed in Fra Angelico's early work. The Virgin of the Star, where the Christ child tenderly reassures his mother, is one of the few paintings in which Fra Angelico yielded to the popular taste for the sentimental. The future glory of Fra Angelico's work is first declared in the Annunciation scene done for the church of San Domenico in Cortona (see p. 54). Here the Virgin sits serenely with hands folded across her breast in a gesture that sums...
Thus the Baptists mark probably the sharpest dividing line in Christendom...
...Over the centuries, many groups upheld this view (as against infant baptism, which became generally accepted in Christendom), among them the 3rd century Donatists, some of the 12th century Petrobrusians and Waldensians, the 15th century Bohemian Brethren. It was not until the Reformation that the issue really became heated, with the rise in the 16th century of the Anabaptists (literally, Re-Baptizers), a collection of sects that all opposed the baptism of infants, but that also opposed, variously, oaths, military service and the holding of public office. The sects were ruthlessly put down, but some (the Mennonites and Hutterites) regained...
...Louis, a Senate investigation of religious freedom, a hassle in Princeton, N.J. over Planned Parenthood and the Community Chest-all such civil affairs may become bitter emotional issues between Protestant and Catholic Christians. "Catholic claustrophobia and Protestant paranoia-these are the matched complexes that tear up American Christendom. What bothers most at this Reformation anniversary, though, is the amount of Protestantism that thinks itself best and most vigorously expressed in terms of that suspicion and resentment...
...Moslem followers of Mohammed the Conqueror who triumphantly stormed Constantinople in 1453 were so successful in covering up all traces of Christianity that for almost five centuries Byzantine art-once the glory of Eastern Christendom-could be judged only through the examples that survived outside the Moslem world. Then, in 1935, Turkey's Kemal Ataturk declared Istanbul's Church of St. Sophia a historical monument, and cleared the way for Western experts to remove the plaster and paint that pious, iconoclastic Moslems had daubed over the great Christian mosaics. Since then each fragmentary restoration has added new proof...