Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholics "divinize" Mary. This, says Father Dougherty, is a "product of gross misunderstanding." The church, he points out, distinguishes between latria (the adoration due only to God) and dulia (the reverence appropriate to some creatures). Second commonest reason for Protestant dissent was the belief that Mary was mother of Christ the man, not Christ...
Under the general name "United Church of Christ," each member church would have complete local autonomy to conduct its own affairs, decide on its form of worship and method of administering the sacraments. If a local church owns property, it may retain it. If held in trust, the property could be transferred to the United Church of Christ...
...What about Christ? I don't think that it would be desirable for children to grow up in ignorance of the New Testament. We don't want a generation who don't know what Christmas and Easter mean, who have never heard of the star of Bethlehem or the angel at the door of the tomb ... All I urge is that [the child] should hear them treated frankly as legends . . . There was a real Trojan War and Hector and Achilles may well have been real people, but we don't now believe Achilles...
...explains that his painting is based on "the harmonious division of a specific golden rectangle" and on the studies of the cube by the 16th century Spanish Architect Juan de Herrera. Actually, the painting has all the impact of a good window display. A luminous figure of a beardless Christ, face averted, floats before a dull gold cross, dramatically spotlighted against a dark sky. Floating with fine structural irrelevancy before the figure are four of Dali's small, mystic cubes, "the most perfect of geometric bodies." Dali has painted his wife and favorite model, Gala, luxuriously robed adoring...
...religious parade, he is beaten and shackled to a steel fence in symbolic martyrdom. He stabs his mistress after she accuses him of incestuous love for Annina. In a bleak subway station, he curses Annina when she insists on taking the veil. And finally Annina becomes the bride of Christ in a chilling ritual...