Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time I became concerned about our involvement in Iran was last August 9th, upon reading an article in The Christian Science Monitor entitled: U.S., IRAN DRAW UP GIANT DEAL. Nuclear Technology, Oil, Weapons Linked in Talks." This report detailed the lengthy communication between the Shah of Iran and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 in the three controversial areas of U.S. relations in Iran--arms sales, transfer of nuclear technology, and the price of oil. The article reads in part as follows...
Then, The Christian Science Monitor "Inside The News--Briefly" of November 29th, highlights "Iran tied to torture, political jailings. Indeed, this makes me wonder even more why we are becoming so deeply committed in quicksand in this part of planet earth...
Fatal Risks. The next problem: If God, then which God? Küng takes a far more positive view of non-Christian religions than does traditional Catholicism, but he still finds Christianity to be superior. Küng insists that it is possible to doubt the authenticity of many New Testament stories, as many Bible experts do, and still learn enough about Jesus to believe in him. Küng himself doubts many of Christ's miracles and considers the story of his birth largely legendary. For him, the center of faith is not Christmas but Easter. He vividly...
...birth, and he believes the early church's definitions of the deity of Christ to be Hellenistic. To him the point is simply that God was present in Jesus, revealing himself and making known his claims on man and his offer of forgiveness. The test of being a Christian "is not assent to this or that dogma . . . but the acceptance of faith in Christ and imitation of Christ...
Catholic Church and became Pope Germanian I. As a result, the world is essentially Catholic, with the massed forces of the "devilish Turk" held at bay in Constantinople and points south. A lone bastion of Christian heresy remains-the Republic of New England, a broad land stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and peopled chiefly by felons and savages...