Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following day, the 1,050,00-member American Council of Christian Churches circulated a petition among clergymen asking for an investigation of the Churches to combat the infiltration of Communists. "The preservation of both civil and religious liberty," said the Council, "calls for such an investigation." The group, organized in 1941, sought to "offset the modernist, Socialist influence of the National Council of Churches...
...Century, Editor Hutchinson himself answered. Wrote he: "We feel a sense of humiliation that anybody could ask us to sign such a pledge . . . Anybody can examine our record . . . in a series of annual volumes reaching back for many years . . . Our understanding of what it means to be a Christian makes it impossible for us to be a Communist...
...Considered, and overwhelmingly voted down, a recommendation by the Duluth Presbytery that the phrase "holy Catholic Church" in the Apostles' Creed be changed to "holy Christian Church." Duluth had objected that the phrase is sometimes "wrongly identified with the Roman Catholic Church...
Five hundred years ago last week, the Turkish Sultan Mohammed II rolled up his artillery and scaling ladders for one of the most decisive battles ever fought-the final assault on Christian Constantinople. Inside the battered city, Emperor Constantine XI, last of the 1,000-year-old Byzantine line, delivered a speech to his followers which Historian Edward Gibbon was to call "the funeral oration of the Roman Empire...
...historical novelists (The Egyptian, The Wanderer), has taken this most crucial of all sieges as the subject of hs new book. It is both a lush and a tricky subject, combining the excitement of a historic military occasion with the far-reaching complications of the death of a great Christian state. It is a tribute to Waltari that he succeeds not only in blending the glamour and the disaster of the event but also works in the sort of love story on which, as every historical novelist knows, the fate both of book sales and besieged cities depends...