Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree. All the "identity discs" in heaven are marked R.C.- Real Christian. FRANK G. NEDBALEK Bryan, Texas...
...five years, De Gasperi's Christian-Democratic (Catholic) Party, and the three parties which work in partnership with him, have had a substantial majority (63.7%) in the Chamber. But the strength of Italy's antidemocrats at both ends of the spectrum, the Communists and the monarcho-fascists, is growing. De Gasperi fears what he recently called "the prospect of the two extreme wings joining hands to create . . . a paralysis of the parliamentary system." Though many democrats are disquieted by the reform law, De Gasperi argues that democracy must be made secure enough to survive...
...16th century, when Luther invoked the help of German princes to fight off the dominion of Rome, the union of Throne and Altar had been a cardinal tenet of German Protestantism. The Kaiser in Berlin was the church's "Supreme Bishop," pledged to govern his country as a Christian king...
...20th century, however, it was plain to see that Throne and Altar had its drawbacks. Sheltered by the umbrella of the Supreme Bishop's authority and supported by state funds,, the official Lutheran Church often became a state bureaucracy and bore little active Christian witness in the life outside the church doors...
Otto Dibelius was one of the first to see that here was an entirely new premise for church and state relations, which Martin Luther, friend and loyal subject of Christian princes, had never bargained for. The German state no longer claimed divine sanction. Far from being the God blessed state of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, it might conceivably change itself into another state mentioned in the New Testament-the godless, seven-headed monster of St. John's Revelation...