Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas Christian University's great junior halfback, Jim Swink, took three quarters to get started, then ran all over the massive Mustangs of S.M.U. to lead his team to a 20-13 victory and the Southwest Conference championship. ¶ Trying hard to hold on to their No. 1 national ranking without giving away secrets to Maryland's Orange Bowl scouts, Oklahoma's undefeated Sooners ran a run-of-the-mill offense against Oklahoma A. & M. and plowed the Aggies under 53-0. ¶ Georgia Tech's speedy backfield ran rings around outmanned Georgia as the Rambling...
...Above him was a stained-glass window showing Christ and John the Baptist. Next to him in the pool stood a friendly-looking, greying man-the Rev. Theodore Floyd Adams of Richmond's First Baptist Church. There was organ music, and then both the pastor and the new Christian went to change into dry clothes...
Between these two baptisms-in Rome, A.D. 100, and in the U.S. last week-stretch nearly 20 centuries of Christian history. Through holy wars and heresies, corruptions and reforms, the triumphs of saints and the victories of skeptics, the little company of faithful has spread across the world. Christians have given themselves strange names and have worshiped the Father, Son and Holy Ghost with commissions and omissions that would have shocked Rome's primitive Christians. The big brick church on Richmond's statue-stippled Monument Avenue, where Thomas Davis was baptized last week, would not look to Publius...
...Baptists try hard to carry on the faith and practice of primitive Christianity. To them, adult baptism is not merely a quaint traditional rite; it sharply points to their conviction that the Christian faith can be accepted only by one who can think and speak for himself.* Similarly, insistence on baptism by immersion, as it is presented in the Bible, fulfills the twin symbolism of washing from sin and of death and rebirth, as well as pointing to the Baptists' conviction that Scripture is the complete and sufficient basis of the Christian faith. Orthodox Christian tradition regards the church...
...world," an Episcopal bishop once said: "the Catholics, standing on one side for the authority of the church, the Baptists, standing on the other side for the authority of the Bible. All the other denominations should be united, for the difference between them is that between Tweedledum and Tweedledee." Christian history knows the Baptists as a dissident people-crotchety, intransigent, sometimes rude, if not downright dangerous in the eyes of the orthodox...