Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those of the 400,000,000 Chinese people who heard about it hailed with wild delight this magnificent success, their first major victory in ten months of war. Cracked China's famed "Christian General," General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The Japanese are soft-shelled turtles in a closed...
Megalopolis is Author Mumford's word for the 20th Century city. In its analysis he uses the Mendelian classification of biological traits into dominants and recessives, adds two other categories: survivals and mutations. In Rome the Christian Church was a mutation, in the medieval city a dominant, in the 17th Century capital a recessive, in the metropolis a survival. The pure industrial order was a dominant until about 1890, after which it became a recessive in the dominant metropolitan order, built on monopoly capitalism, credit finance, pecuniary prestige and the national culture of national advertising. "No human eye," says...
...addressing by his Christian name...
...Episcopal congregation owns its church edifice, could turn Buddhist if it pleased and still own it. So could a Jewish congregation. A Congregational group has the same freedom, but the Congregational-Christian Church-like U. S. Baptist bodies-may hold mortgages on its constituent churches so that they may not pass out of its control. Methodist churches are held by national bodies; Presbyterian churches by local trustees, reverting to local presbyteries if they are dissolved. Church laws apart, State laws of incorporation may limit a church to the activities for which it was specifically incorporated...
...last week made a pronouncement. He gave his august backing to an eminent European prelate who had written: "The hierarchic authority is perfectly entitled to pronounce on any political party or political movement in so far as that party or movement opposes religious well-being or the precepts of Christian morals...