Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about to launch the most audacious, best-financed attack his party had ever endured. So two Fridays ago, he brought together a dozen of his party's most powerful leaders. The meeting, in a glass-lined conference room in Republican headquarters on Capitol Hill, included top people from the Christian right, the pro-life movement, Big Business and small business. Barbour told the group that he thought the AFL-CIO's campaign on behalf of the Democrats would be worth far more than the $35 million the union was promising--and perhaps as much as $200 million. The G.O.P. would...
...Jesus on which everyone agrees is that he was probably born around 4 B.C.) But Smith's concern is understandable. If the Seminar's claims are valid--that little can be known of the most basic elements of his life, let alone of the miracles--then on what is Christian belief based? And if believers insist on believing anyway, then whose example should they follow? Every new book, every new theory seems to wear away some long-cherished relic in this battle between faith and knowledge. Those who would come to Jesus' rescue must ask, Is it too late...
...hundreds of years, most Christians would have found the idea of distinguishing between the Jesus one prays to and the Jesus of history a ludicrous one. Well into our half of the millennium, it was assumed (as it still is in America's expanding Fundamentalist and Evangelical congregations) that the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and Paul's Epistles were the best history of all: a Christian would no more consider asking whether Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead than question his status as the risen Messiah. But Martin Luther, in pioneering Protestantism, stressed that every Christian could...
...University of Marburg, the foremost Protestant scholar in the field, threw up his hands: he called for a halt to inquiries regarding the Jesus of history. So unreliable were the Gospel accounts that "we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus." He advised good Christian scholars to concentrate on the Jesus of faith. But, as it turns out, they didn...
...gambling alongside restaurant associations, bowling alleys, video arcades, theme parks and racetracks that fear losing business to casinos. Nonetheless, NCALG's main foot soldiers are so-called traditional-values and pro-family activists. In Louisiana this week Southern Baptists are escorting Grey to rallies around the state. In Michigan Christian Coalition members helped collect 100,000 signatures on petitions to block casinos in Detroit. So far, Roman Catholic churches, with their bingo and Las Vegas nights, have been little help, while main-line Protestant churches just "like to pass resolutions," Grey scoffs. "I don't have time to organize...