Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations try to meet the penetration of foreign civilizations. There are, he says, two constantly recurring patterns of response by "the party at bay against an inhuman enemy within its battered gates." These two responses he calls Zealotism and Herodianism, after the two Jewish parties at the time of Christ, who tried to cope with the inroads of Hellenic civilization...
...Toynbee, all the "higher religions," i.e., Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, are simply separate ways to the City of God. Toynbee sees the prophets of other religions as precursors of Christ, and their sufferings "Stations of the Cross in anticipation of the Crucifixion." But he does not explicitly accept Christ's divinity. Toynbee also sees Christianity as the "climax of a continuous upward movement of spiritual progress" and thinks that "a 20th century historian might venture to predict that Christianity's transfiguring effect on the World up to date would be outshone by its continuing operation in the future...
...example must be sought in Christ, says Toynbee, "not of shrinking from the suffering inherent in Human Nature, but of accepting it for the sake of saving human beings"; and in the bodhisattva (a future Buddha) whose characteristic virtue was "his fortitude in withstanding a perpetual temptation to desert his self-assigned post in a world of painful action in order to take the short cut to oblivion that lay perpetually open to him . . . Western Man's task [is] to school himself to 'living dangerously...
...Thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints converged on Salt Lake City for the Mormon Church's 12 5th semiannual conference. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a member of the Mormons' top policymaking body, the Council of the Twelve Apostles, voiced a plea "that regardless of the party you are affiliated with, you remember the standard the God of Heaven has given and use your influence to help safeguard the country and see that honest, good and wise men are elected to public office...
...largest food relief program ever undertaken by U.S. churches was set in motion by the Church World Service, a branch of the National Council of Churches of Christ. Over the next three years, 500 million Ibs. of Government surpluses of wheat, cotton, cottonseed oil, corn, corn products, butter, cheese and powdered milk, with a wholesale value of $150 million, will be distributed free. Administrative and distribution costs will be covered through nationwide "Share Our Surplus" drives...