Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thou the second coming of Christ?" he is asked, and his admirers call him their messiah. To the whites, he is either the biggest demagogue to come down the pike, or a deluded mystic, and in either case dangerous. Never has Dr. Banda appeared in better-or worse-form than last week, on his return from Nkrumah's All-African Peoples Conference in Accra. The experience had been heady...
...Died. "Messiah" Krishna Venta (real name: Francis Heindswatzer Pencovic), 47, cultist, leader of the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith, Love) Fountain of the World; in a dynamite blast set off by two ex-members of the Fountain, who died taking eight others with them; near Chatsworth, Calif. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...order lying in the future assumes the Marxist or Nazi forms, for example, the power of the true new age is confused with elements of the old, and we witness the demonic power of all idolatrous thought. The New Testament conception of the Antichrist--a false messiah of this world pretending to power of the world to come--is here relevant. In the lectures we are attempting to understand our age in terms of New Testament faith. The idea of purposive change, basic to science, derives its moving force from the Christian doctrine of the Kingdom...
...purposeful change is "demonic," even though it is a "secularized form of the Kingdom of God," the Rev. Newbigin asserted. Before the second coming of Christ, there must be a return to the old cyclical conception: evaluation of time by the number of epochs between the appearances of the Messiah. The present technological culture of Christian society cannot remain religiously neutral; society "must revolve around Christ or the anti-Christ, around the true Absolute or its negation...
...turns a farmer, lawyer, newspaper publisher and banker, Strijdom was unswervingly a politician. In 1929 he was elected to represent the rural constituency of Waterberg. Soon his fiercely Calvinist insistence on quoting Biblical chapter and verse that he thought supported racial segregation won him the derisive title of "the Messiah of Waterberg." His opponents of the largely English-speaking United Party were all much wittier and smoother than Strijdom, but they could find no defense against his blunt, brutal singleness of purpose. "With Hans," said Afrikaners happily, "you know where...