Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OFTEN been said that ours is an antiheroic age. Nonetheless, Christians have had their share of martyrs in the 20th century. Men like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Alexander Solzenhitsyn and thousands of other nameless Christians have defied totalitarian persecution; many have died for doing so. Few men have borne more eloquent and courageous witness to the Christian faith in the face of tyranny than Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty...
...quarter of a century, Cardinal Mindszenty symbolized the fundamental incompatibility of Christianity and totalitarianism, whether Nazi or Communist. His death of heart failure last Tuesday not only ended a stirring drama of Christian martyrdom, but in a sense, marked the final stage of an uncompromising view of Communism that has almost disappeared in the West. The source of his greatness, however, lay not in popular acceptance but, as in Thomas More's case, in "his willful indifference to realities which were obvious to quite ordinary contemporaries." The cross he bore--his love of God and freedom--has been lifted...
...story is a significant Christian indictment of antiSemitism, which Graham thinks is currently on the rise and is one reason he wanted to make The Hiding Place. "This film shows that some Christians stood up for persons in a minority group, even at the cost of their lives," Graham says. In addition, he forecasts the "possibility of great suffering coming to Christians within a generation. The film shows how God's grace and love can sustain believers in the worst of times...
Ovens' Stench. The Hiding Place plunges Into perplexing religious issues, such as whether Christians should disobey the state and whether they should lie or steal to further a good cause. Most important is the age-old quandary of the existence of evil. One Ravensbrück inmate taunts Corrie by saying that a God who did nothing after smelling the stench from the extermination ovens must be either powerless or cruel. Corrie's reply is that "the same God that you are accusing came and lived in the midst of our world. He was beaten, he was mocked...
...Ford goes through a dozen papers a day, ranging from the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal to the Christian Science Monitor and the Grand Rapids Press. He also scans the newsmagazines and watches some television news...