Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MANY YEARS. AM SHOCKED AS I'M SURE ARE MANY OF YOUR READERS AT THE STRONG PRO-CATHOLIC BIAS OF YOUR ARTICLE ON THE OUTRAGEOUS TREATMENT ACCORDED THE CHURCH OF CHRIST MISSIONARIES IN ITALY. THE FACTS ARE TWISTED AND DISTORTED. FOR EXAMPLE YOU STATE THEY HAVE MADE ONLY 45O CONVERTS. THE WORD "ONLY" BETRAYS THE STRONG
...impossible to project the Word of God into the context of modern culture. Neither nature nor civilization is wholly evil, Tillich protested. On the contrary, he wrote, "God reveals himself not only in history but also through history as a whole." His conclusion: without losing his image of Christ as Savior, the Christian must adjust the externals of his faith, his philosophy and culture to the circumstances of the time. The Protestant religions, for example, resulted from the changing circumstances of the 15th and 16th centuries, which made necessary a new formal expression of Christianity...
...sculptures Michelangelo carved for his Renaissance patrons found their way into public galleries, until only a single work remained in private hands: the Pietà Rondanini, an unfinished sculpture of the dead Christ and Virgin Mary on which the master was working when he died in 1564. It was owned by Italy's wealthy Sanseverino family and kept in their villa near Rome. Then, three years ago, the word flashed through art circles that the Sanseverinos were inviting offers (TIME, March...
After a few hymns, the speakers began. Shouted Dr. Fakhri Maluf, onetime Boston College philosophy teacher: "It is heresy to believe that there can be salvation for the Christ-hating and Mary-hating people . . . Archbishop Gushing stuck his head out in heresy against us . . . Our Lady, Scourge of Heretics, punish him!" Some orthodox Catholic spectators let out a shocked "ooh," but the slaves clapped and applauded...
...sugary invocation of his victims. "The American army," he coos, "[is] the loveliest, the kindest . . . army in the world. . . I like Americans. . . and I proved it a hundred times during the war. . . Their souls are pure, much purer than ours. I like the Americans. . . because they believe that Christ is always on the side of those who are in the right, because they believe that it is a sin to be in the wrong...