Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among them: Calvin's doctrine of the essential evil in human nature, and Luther's doctrine that man can justify himself only by faith in Christ, not through good deeds...
Early in the xyth century, a Roman nobleman commissioned three famed artists of the day to paint their versions of Ecce Homo (Pilate presenting Christ to the mob). He bought the one that pleased him best, by Lodovico Cigoli, and eventually it passed to the Pitti Palace at Florence. Another version, by Domenico Passignano, is lost. The third, by the great Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, also disappeared...
...theological system, Tillich has attempted to bring together liberal and orthodox Christianity. He advocates that the Christian, without losing his image of Christ as the Savior, must adjust the externals of his faith, his philosophy, and his culture to the circumstances of his time...
...couplets that Biographer Fowler uses as chapter headings. Samples: "I made a bed of sun and sand / Beside some vanished stream"; "In this torn sea of arabesques / Looms there no isle of peace?" Nonetheless, this kind of thing, plus two art books and a blasphemous play about Christ that was banned in Boston, was enough to make Sadakichi the king of Greenwich Village at the turn of the century...
...Diaries make clear is that immature girls were, to Dodgson, the nearest thing on earth to angelic "spirits of peace." It is easy to imagine his indignation when, on taking a great fancy to little Alice Liddell and her sisters (daughters of the dean of his own college, Christ Church), he was accused by gossips of chasing "the governess. Miss Prickett...