Word: christian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previously been skeptical about the political wisdom of holding the election in Berlin, felt obliged to back up the West Germans. So last week Bonn finally sent out 1,036 invitations to federal and state legislators, convoking them in Berlin on March 5 to choose between the Christian Democrats' Gerhard Schroder and the Socialists' Gustav Heinemann for the office of President of the Federal Republic...
...Harvard Divinity School has received a bequest of books from the late Augustine Cardinal Bea, president of the Vatican's Secretariat for Christian Unity...
...petulant, adventurous, imprudent, fanatical and hypnotizing?" After receiving the questions, Illich wrote an eight-page letter to Franjo Cardinal Seper, the Congregation's prefect, explaining that he could not answer them. The form of the questions, he wrote, "seems designed to wreck any hope of a human and Christian dialogue between the one judging and the one being judged...
When the boy was young, he had tried holding on to philosophies. For a week he would say to himself, "I am a stoic." The next week, "I am a Christian." The next, "I am an existentialist." And he would map out systems of thought, meanings for life, and ardently believe in each, until it gave way to the next...
...visiting churchmen had more important issues to face than Hargis-style hostility. In its two decades of existence, the World Council has grown into an organization of 232 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches with a total constituency of more than 300 million people. Yet its ecumenical mission of Christian unity is increasingly taking second place to more pressing problems: the demands for social and economic justice by underdeveloped countries; the rising ,clamor of young churchmen for a greater voice in ecclesiastical policymaking; the drift of many dissident believers into "underground" worship, imperiling the very foundations of the institutional church...