Word: godly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbolize everything the West found incomprehensible and baffling about the East: his intense, ascetic spirituality and air of otherworldly detachment; his medieval, theocratic mind-set, which drew its parallels and precedents from the Islamic world of the 7th century; the mystical certitude that he spoke in the name of God, his country and Muslims everywhere...
...modern, secular world too far and too fast, using torture and execution to suppress dissent. In addition, Khomeini's place in the world of Shi'ite theology gave him a platform. Unlike Sunni Muslims, members of Islam's other, much larger branch, Shi'ites believe in an intermediary between God and man. In Shi'ism's first centuries, this role of mediator was played by the Twelve Imams, who were thought to be the rightful successors to the Prophet Muhammad and who combined religious and secular authority. Most Shi'ites continue to believe that the Twelfth Imam, who disappeared...
...most cases, the classic masculine metaphors for God and Jesus have survived (for example, The King of Love My Shepherd Is). But a few modern hymns were added to ascribe feminine attributes to the divine. Syntax permitting, male pronouns referring to the Deity were shunned. In O Worship the King, for example, "his power and his love" becomes "God's power and God's love...
...Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, "pleased as man with men to dwell" becomes "pleased with us in flesh to dwell." In Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, "sons of men and angels say Alleluia" is recycled as "earth and heaven in chorus say Alleluia." As for other hymns: God of Our Fathers is now God of the Ages; Good Christian Men, Rejoice metamorphoses into Good Christian Friends, Rejoice; and O Little Town of Bethlehem's angels promise peace to "all on earth," not "men on earth...
...God may still be King, but "sons of men" no longer hail Easter, nor do Christmas angels promise peace to "men on earth." And you can forget God of our Fathers...