Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five-year history. The 750 churchmen participating will represent an estimated 168,000,000 Protestant and Orthodox Christians. As assembly time gets closer, most of the world's Protestant theologians are getting deeper and deeper in the preliminary debate over the council's agreed theme: Christ-the Hope of the World...
...fact a knotty problem on which Protestant theologians are hotly divided. The key word in the preliminary discussions, held since 1951, has been "eschatology," a $15 Greek term meaning, literally, the last things, and, theologically, the manner of the Judgment, the resurrection of the body, the Second Coming of Christ...
...European theologians, the other by those American theologians most actively associated with the World Council. The Europeans tend to be Biblically strict constructionist and socially pessimistic. They hold that things on this dreary earth will never really get better-despite all that Christians might like to do meanwhile-until Christ comes again to judge and sanctify...
...troubles and tragedies of this confused world is found in the Christian faith. No peace can be had, no concord established until men come to accept the truth of the Gospel. The call to the church is clear to tell the story of the redemptive life of Christ Jesus...
...Andrés de Valdarrábanos tells what happened: "Captain [Balboa], going ahead of all those he was conducting up a bare high hill, saw from its summit the South Sea . . . And immediately he turned toward the troops, very happy, lifting eyes and hands to Heaven, praising Jesus Christ and His glorious Mother." Balboa knelt, commanding his men to do likewise, "and gave thanks to God for the grace He had shown him in allowing him to discover that sea." Later, Balboa and his men scrambled down to the sea's edge, stood knee-deep in the salt...