Word: covenanter
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FRIDAY evening the Church of the Covenant in Boston was the scene of an extraordinary spectacle. Hundreds of people stood in lines, jammed the pews, and knelt in the aisles of that grand and holy edifice, seeking an odd mixture of sacrament and blasphemy, tradition and revolution, ritual and riot...
Evenings are likewise filled. Concerts, concerts--Jaki Byard, George Russell, various local artists--even a screening of rare films that chronicle the history of jazz dance. The climax of the week-long event is a performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago at the Church of the Covenant (67 Newbury...
At the somber granite monument to South Africa's Boer pioneers near Pretoria, at Krugersdorp where the Boers defied the British and re-established their republic, and at other sites across the nation, white Afrikaners gathered to mark the Day of the Covenant, their Thanksgiving. It was on Dec...
The Afrikaners have long believed that their nation struck a special covenant with God ordaining them to preserve a Christian civilization. South Africa is, in a sense, the last Protestant theocracy on earth. In a country where American-style separation of church and state is as foreign as interracial marriage...
These are the legacy of the Puritan's Covenant psychology, and they are a great source of the old American demon, absolutism. The movements epitomize one half of the national psyche, the Puritan conscience, and contend with the other half, democratic license. They take up, once again, the Puritan's...