Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christmas comes three times a year at the Young Men's Christian Association in the Israeli sector of Jerusalem. With hundreds of Jews attending, the Y put on a carol sing to mark the Christmas of Protestants and Roman Catholics. On Jan. 6 it will hold another celebration of the birth of Christ for Orthodox Christians, and on Jan. 18 still a third for Israel's Armenian Christians, who follow the old Julian calendar...
...modern Y.M.C.A. any longer limits its membership to people who are young, male and Christian, but Jerusalem's Y is the only one in which 95% of the 3,300 members are Jewish, one-third of them women. The organization is so popular that some prominent Israeli families have unsuccessfully tried to use pull to move their children ahead on the long waiting list at its gym. But it started out to be something much more traditional...
Messiah & Magistrate. The author of the Letter to the Hebrews declared that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever." True enough, but every generation has shaped its own unique understanding of the Saviour. To the first Jewish Christians of Jerusalem, he was primarily the Messiah spoken of by Isaiah and the prophets. The Christos Pantocrator of Orthodoxy was as royal a governor as any Byzantine emperor. Calvinism emphasized the stern lord of the Last Judgment, a magistrate who could govern the theocracy that was Geneva. The most painted figure in the history of art, Jesus...
Influence & Pressure. The major top ic of the conference was the touchiest issue that now faces Orthodoxy: how to initiate and carry on the theological dialogue with Rome that Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI agreed to when they met in Jerusalem last January. Merely putting the subject on the agenda led the Orthodox Church of Greece to boy cott last year's Rhodes meeting, partly because the Greek bishops are fearful of Rome's power and partly because Athens' Metropolitan Chrysostomos is jealous of Athenagoras' growing influence in Orthodoxy. Strong pressure from some progressive metropolitans...
Athenagoras and the patriarchs of Anti och, Alexandria and Jerusalem want the conference to set a definite time and place, as soon as possible. The Russians, on the other hand, want to wait until the Vatican Council is over. All the churches agree that one condition for the dialogue is acceptance by Rome of the Orthodox as equal partners, not as schismatics petitioning for a return to the fold. The delegates also agreed unanimously to form a committee of prelates who would inform the Pope of the conference's proposed ground rules for the discussion...