Word: jerusalem
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...joyous in the cosmology of practicing Christians, who can affirm: heaven is destination and reward, succor and relief from earthly trials. It is reunion with those we love, forever, as we loved them. It is our real home, our permanent address, our own true country. It is the New Jerusalem and Paradise Regained, the community of Saints and the eternal Eucharist; everlasting Easter and a million Christmases. It is an end to death's sting; it is the eternal, ongoing, ever growing experience of God. It is the ecstatic dream of St. John: "Holy, holy, holy...
...describes a field of dry bones, which at God's bidding "came together, bone to bone" and lived again. The motif recurred in the later books of the Hebrew Bible, sometimes in combination with a nationalistically tinged Messianism or the re-establishment of a paradise located in a new Jerusalem. In Greece the privileged dead gradually came to inhabit the Isles of the Blessed, later the Elysian fields, and in the 4th century B.C. Plato championed the concept of judgment after death in his Gorgias, and, in Phaedrus, postulated an immortal soul that strove ever upward after gaining its freedom...
...device. Israel responded to the attack by barring Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from entering Israel. The attack could further strain the tenuous peace between Arabs and Jews already tested by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence on building new Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. The bombing, the first such attack in over a year, was condemned by Yasser Arafat, but Netanyahu blamed the Palestinian leader for the incident, charging that Arafat had done nothing to discourage militants. This critique may be credible in some respects, says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "While Arafat has publicly...
...JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to propose that Israel and the Palestinians immediately launch intensive negotiations, to be capped by a Camp David-style summit, to determine the final status of the Palestinian territories rather than proceed with a step-by-step implementation of Israeli withdrawals from the West Bank under the Oslo accords. In an interview with TIME editors on Wednesday, Netanyahu said he presented this idea to King Hussein of Jordan when he visited Jerusalem on Sunday. He characterized Jordanian and American reaction as being "intrigued." He said that the strategy of negotiating phased withdrawals...
...JERUSALEM: Making a visit into Jerusalem, King Hussein personally offered his condolences to the families of the seven schoolgirls killed by a Jordanian soldier last Thursday. Hussein's diplomacy may prove to be more effective at healing feelings than at changing Israeli policy. After a two-hour private meeting with the Jordanian leader, Benjamin Netanyahu announced his government's determination to proceed with construction of a 6,500-unit housing settlement in east Jerusalem. The initial announcement of the settlement plans sparked an angry response from Hussein last week and prompted Yasser Arafat to cut off all communication with Netanyahu...