Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gasperi's Cabinet, but left because he could not promote enough backing for his full-employment ideas (he wanted jobs-made work if necessary-for all of Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed). He believes everyone is entitled to "a job, a house, and music." As Demo-Christian candidate for Florence's mayoralty two years ago, he blasted the Communists loose from a five-year grip on the city's administration. To poverty-ridden Florence he has brought low-cost housing, sanitary improvements, tree planting, free concerts. Florentines sometimes call him Il Santo (The Saint...
Slump & Shutdown. Last week all Florence was caught up in La Pira's latest Christian endeavor: persuading the government to take over the shut-down Pi-gnone factory on Florence's outskirts, the oldest industrial plant in the city. Pignone, a dreary and sprawling factory which used to make torpedoes for Mussolini, was taken over after the war by Snia Viscosa, Italy's biggest textile combine, which used it to make cotton-spinning machines for export. But a slump in textile demand and high costs (partly caused by Communist-inspired strikes) brought on a layoff last January...
...Peter credit for being the decisive "mediator" between the "Judaizers" and the "Hellenists" of the early church. Where Paul, the "Apostle of the Gentiles," wanted to leave his Greek converts as free as possible of the old Jewish Law, he says, other leaders at Jerusalem insisted that all new Christian converts be circumcised, or at least adopt Jewish rituals. It was Peter, says Theologian Cullmann, who eased these requirements and bridged the threatening gap between Jewish and Gentile Christians...
Important Hints. Cullmann agrees with the Catholics on the evidence of Peter's transfer to Rome, though he concedes that the evidence is indirect. Going further. Cullmann endorses the traditional version of Peter's death. The early evidence for this, also, is no more than "hints," for Christian writers did not begin mentioning Peter's Roman martyrdom until the second and third centuries. But the hints are important ones, e.g., in all the church controversies of the early centuries, no one saw fit to deny Peter's Roman martyrdom. As Cullmann observes: "Were we to demand...
...leadership of the church to that city. To begin with, "Peter was the leader of the entire church only at Jerusalem." When Peter left Jerusalem, he turned over leadership of the church to James, the brother of Jesus,* and himself became merely the subordinate head of the "Jewish Christian mission." It was his job to preach the Gospel to Jews outside the Holy City, just as it was Paul's parallel mission to preach to the Gentiles...