Word: christly
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...worries Archbishop Runcie. Since 1970, Anglicans and Roman Catholics have been discussing reunification, while for decades Anglicans and Orthodox churches have also discussed closer ties. But in 1975, the Vatican, forewarning the Anglicans in effect, declared that the all-male priesthood was "an unbroken tradition" that is "based on Christ's example" and "considered to conform to God's plan for his church." If those words allow any leeway, the Eastern Orthodox Church allows none, holding that priesthood for women is impossible. The result: while one long-sought liberal reform has moved forward, another liberal dream has almost...
...oust Roth and he refused to obey, it won a court order early this month requiring that he leave. Instead, Roth, 33, barricaded himself in the church and preached his usual Sunday sermon, telling the congregation of 75, "It is a sin to destroy people's lives. Christ would never have come out on the side of the corporations...
Most Christian churches teach that the end of history will be marked by Christ's return to earth to establish a perfect kingdom. A number of Old and New Testament passages describe the prelude to this event in terms of angelic battle and earthly turmoil. One of these vivid prophecies, the only one that names Armageddon,* is Revelation 16. Most scholars believe that Revelation and other prophecies refer to such epochal events as Jesus' death and resurrection and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in A.D. 70. Others see them as symbolic depictions of the spiritual struggle between...
...held doggedly to literal interpretations of such texts. This view flourishes in the U.S., not only in such sects as Jehovah's Witnesses and Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God but also within evangelical and fundamentalist Protestant churches. Literalists are called premillennialists because they believe Christ's Second Coming will precede an actual millennial kingdom (Revelation...
Trying to put the Armageddon issue into perspective, one moderate evangelical, New Testament Professor A. Berkeley Mickelsen of Minnesota's Bethel Theological Seminary, points out that the accounts of Christ's return are rich in symbolism. Says he: "If you're not careful, pretty soon it's Buck Rogers. To take apocalyptic language and make it scientific language is wrong." He is perturbed at the prophecy hunters' emphasis on global conflict. "Scripture teaches that great nations must treat compassionately the oppressed of the earth," says Mickelsen. "When Christ really does break into this scene, there...