Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your women keep silence in the churches," said St. Paul (I Corinthians 14:34). But Christ put women very near the center of things, and they have played a mighty role in church history as saints and martyrs, organizers and spiritual guides.* Orthodox and Roman Catholic canon laws forbid females to administer the sacraments, but Protestantism opened the door with its conception of the priesthood of all believers, and in recent years, women ministers have become almost a sectarian commonplace. The U.S. census for 1950 reported an alltime high of 6,777 -4.1% of the total number of clergymen...
...fund already raised. Unanimously the A.B.C. accepted the proposal of Southern Baptist Convention President Warren to participate with his group, together with the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. (Negro) and the National Baptist Convention of America (Negro), in a five-year evangelistic crusade, starting in 1959, to "win America for Christ...
...founders as essentially one. They concentrate their own efforts not on individual salvation but on the achievement of universal peace. "We are one up on Christianity," says white-haired Leroy loas (pronounced Iowaas), a retired Chicago railroad manager, who serves as secretary general of the international council at Haifa. "Christ never mentioned universal peace in his teachings." Peace-striving Bahais plug for internationalism (the U.N.) and against treaty arrangements "based on force" (NATO). The sect's current head, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, is in his fifties, lives in Haifa with his Canadian-born wife, and presides over a spiritual constituency...
...picture in Burra's Boston exhibition gave promise of still better to come. He had not bothered to give it a title, but the subject was clearly Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (see cut). Scores of old masters have given the scene more spiritual impact, yet few have conceived it any more compactly and dramatically than Burra has. As always with Burra, evil ruled the conception. But this time the evil was not the housebroken monster of a man fascinated by undigested fears. Burra's Gethsemane faced the onrushing moment of one of history's greatest...
...Arguments. The Catholic answer is based on the fact that the word brother in general Semitic usage applies equally to stepbrothers, and is often extended to include other relatives. So, said the early Greek fathers. Christ's "brethren" were really Joseph's children by a former marriage; Latin fathers maintained that they were the Lord's cousins. The arguments: 1) Mary appears throughout the New Testament only as the mother of Jesus and no one else; 2) Mary's annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Luke 2:41) would have been an unlikely custom for a woman involved...