Word: historicizing
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Q. You have said that Christians should not proselytize adherents of other religions. How do you reconcile that with your statement that Christians "are under a historic mandate to proclaim their faith to all people"?
The climax of the festivities took place this month in the Rutli meadow overlooking Lake Lucerne. The field can be reached only on foot, so the celebrators clambered up the bank of the lake to gather at the historic site where, according to legend, rebellious farmers from the founding cantons...
But Bush's comments on Soviet internal politics were overshadowed by the hope that the new spirit of U.S.-Soviet cooperation might spread to the Middle East. Secretary of State James Baker, with some important help from Moscow, persuaded Israel to sit down with its Arab neighbors in face-to...
If last week's summit between George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev symbolized the end of the cold war, it may also have marked the end of a rather less historic phenomenon: the Great International Media Circus, with its Tibet-size press rooms wired for every conceivable form of human communication...
Which is not to say the gulf war wasn't worth it. A crucial principle was defended: aggression will be checked -- at least when the victim sits atop the commodity clemenceau said was "as necessary as blood." But on most other fronts the euphoria of the allied victory has given...