Word: covenanter
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The congress, however, heard Third World arguments for curbing the influence of American and European missionaries in developing countries. The covenant noted that "a reduction of for eign missionaries and money in an evan gelized country may sometimes be necessary to facilitate the national church's growth in self...
The contributions such talented Egyptians might make to their country will remain limited, however, unless Sadat is able to overcome Egypt's shortage of capital. For that reason he has conceived a plan called "al infitah " (the opening) to lure money from oil-rich Arab states and the industrial...
Still, the Islamic view of the world in a sense pitches it into an endless struggle against the rest of mankind. Islam sees itself as a universal religion, with a formula for order and justice that Allah intends the entire world eventually to accept. That obviously clashes with the ancient...
Lady Antonia scants no detail of politics or social trends. The result is a dense scrim of facts that partly obscures the giant size and shape of Cromwell's tortured personality. Every once in a while, his voice rings out memorably-in an outburst at Parliament ("Begone, you rogues...
Tyrant. Kott's approach to tragedy is almost too empathetic. He begins and ends with the supreme sufferer, Prometheus. The classic hero, he suggests, enters a world that is either mismanaged or overmanaged. The tyrant may be a king or he may, as happened in the case of Prometheus...