Word: christian
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Mormon theology recognizes the Christian Bible but adds three holy books of its own. It holds that shortly after his resurrection, Jesus Christ came to America to teach the indigenous people, who were actually a tribe of Israel, but that Christian churches in the Old World fell into apostasy. Then, starting in 1820, God restored his "latter-day" religion by dispatching the angel Moroni to reveal new Scriptures to a simple farm boy named Joseph Smith near Palmyra, N.Y. Although the original tablets, written in what is called Reformed Egyptian, were taken up again to heaven, Smith, who received visits...
...this has led to some withering denominational sniping. In 1995 the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) issued national guidelines stating that the Mormons were not "within the historic apostolic tradition of the Christian Church." A more sharply edged report by the Presbyterians' Utah subunit concluded that the Latter-day Saints "must be regarded as heretical." The Mormons have responded to such challenges by downplaying their differences with the mainstream. In 1982 an additional subtitle appeared on the covers of all editions of the Book of Mormon: "Another Testament of Jesus Christ." In 1995 the words Jesus Christ on the official letterhead...
After hearing a piece played by scores of soloists from myriad eras and traditions, it's rare that a performer can tell you something new. But so it was with Christian Zacharias, whose performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto highlighted an otherwise lackluster afternoon at Tanglewood Sunday. Zacharias gave such a spirited reading of the concerto's finale that the audience rose almost immediately with the last chord...
DIED. GERDA CHRISTIAN, 83, Adolf Hitler's devoted secretary; in Dusseldorf, Germany. Christian was on hand at the Fuhrer's eleventh-hour wedding to Eva Braun and lunched with him before he committed suicide, but chose not to take the poison pills that Hitler reportedly gave her as a parting gift...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: TIME's Richard Ostling reports that the State Department's first comprehensive report on worldwide religious persecution focuses on Christians more than other groups for the simple reason that Christians were the primary catalysts behind the study. "There are a lot of followers of various Christian groups who are especially concerned about the suppression of Christians in other countries. They have been the ones who have been lobbying in a concerted way over the past year to get some State Department action on the issue of religious persecution." Tuesday's report, which covered 78 countries over 83 pages...