Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just before Cyrus Vance arrived in Jerusalem last week, Israel's Premier Menachem Begin caused a stir with a public admission: Israeli artillery regularly fires into south Lebanon to shoo away Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanese Christian enclaves in the border area. In fact, during a recent seven-day period, Israeli batteries-sometimes directed by observers in spotter planes-fired 16 times at Palestinian forces near the seven Christian villages in the border area; during the same week, the Israelis manned two observation posts in Lebanese territory and sent in seven patrols-one of which got into a firefight with...
...meantime, reports TIME Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy, the secret Israeli operation began in May 1976 when three Israeli missile boats sailed from Haifa to Jounieh Bay, near the Christian "capital" north of Beirut. Aboard one boat was Yitzhak Rabin, then the Israeli Premier, and his Defense Minister, Shimon Peres. Soon the Israelis were joined by two boats from the mainland, one carrying Camille Chamoun, then a Lebanese Cabinet minister, the other carrying Lebanese Christian Phalangist Party Leader Pierre Gemayel-both boats guided and guarded by Israeli frogmen. Though the two Lebanese Christians, leaders of competing factions, refused to meet with...
...Middle Ages, Rhodes served as a stopping point for European Crusaders, until it was taken from the Byzantine Empire in 1309 by the Christian Knights of St. John, who needed a new base after their ignominious rout from Jerusalem. The Knights refortified the island, building a huge bastion on the site of the Colossus, and withstood sieges by the Egyptians and Turks, finally surrendering in 1522 to a vastly larger Ottoman Turkish force...
...Christian tradition holds that Christ is the second Person of the Trinity, who became God in human flesh. The seven theologians consider this belief "a mythological or poetic way of expressing [Jesus'] significance for us," not literal truth. The old doctrine was formulated to express faith in Jesus within a Greco-Roman culture, the authors contend, but in modern times it just will...
...Jesus is to be demoted from the Godhead, what faith remains? The authors do not want the sort of vague Christianity without Christ that Unitarianism has become since it dropped belief in the Trinity. Wiles sees two possibilities. The "stronger form" would avoid metaphysical claims about Jesus but insist that "his life and all that has stemmed from it" are essential to human faith. The "weaker form" would simply recognize the "contingent historical fact" that faith "came alive through the figure of Jesus" for those raised in Christian cultures. To another of the authors, Michael Goulder, a tutor in theology...