Word: christianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearty thanks to TIME for the fine summary [Sept. 8] of the Lambeth conference statement advocating contraception and birth control. It is so much more sensible, dignified-and Christian-than the stand taken by the Roman church, which reduces human beings to the level of animals having physical relations solely for the purpose of producing offspring...
...ancient Persian frieze, he looks like an Arabian king but talks like a professor of philosophy. His conversation, resounding and serious in any of four languages (Arabic, English, German, French), is punctuated methodically by the 1-2-3 and a-b-c of the lecturer. He is a Christian (Greek Orthodox), reads the Lord's Prayer and Creed regularly in Arabic at Sunday worship at his local church in Beirut, cons St. John Chrysostom for relaxation. His wife was formerly a teacher of literature at a Beirut women's college; they have one son, Habib...
...ought to send this picture to the Christian Advocate," snickered one of the church organists...
Risky Claim. Lewis also noticed the psalms' attitude toward God's judgment of men. Christians tremble at the thought (or should); Judgment Day is "that day of wrath, that dreadful day." But the psalmists looked forward to it joyfully. The reason for the difference, says Lewis, is that "the Christian pictures the case to be tried as a criminal case with himself in the dock; the Jew pictures it as a civil case with himself as the plaintiff. The one hopes for acquittal, or rather for pardon; the other hopes for a resounding triumph with heavy damages...
...plain Sicilians, such legends are not old wives' tales but part of everyday life -along with Christian miracles, Saracen tales of derring-do, and glittering fantasies of the U.S. way of life. The background against which these visions take shape is composed of blasted heaths and stark, sun-baked mountains; in the foreground are a rich aristocracy and poor peasantry whose lot is still hard despite the great strides toward prosperity made by Sicily in the past decade. Between the two extremes roam the brigands and the men of the Mafia, who from time immemorial have existed by making...