Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contributions to 48 Protestant and two Eastern Orthodox Communions in the U.S. reached a record high of $1,842,592,260 during 1955, announced the National Council of Churches. Per capita contribution to the collection plate...
...years ago Stravinsky, who has written a Pater Noster, a Credo, an Ave Maria and a Mass, enthusiastically accepted a commission to compose Passion music for Venice's patron saint-at a rumored fee of $12,000. (A member of the Russian Orthodox faith, Stravinsky is very religious, but rarely goes to church in Los Angeles, where he lives, because "the singing is something terrible.") After struggling with the assignment, he turned up not with a Passion but with his Canticum-and it took a mere 17 minutes to perform. When officials protested, he replied that he could have...
...revolutionary; lucidly and briefly he takes them through the Old Testament background, 1st century Judaism, the Greek influences on the early church. But in the last section of the book, dealing directly with primitive Christianity, demythologization is seen at work. Again and again Bultmann attributes to Gnostic influences what orthodox interpreters assign to essential Christian teaching. The problem of the future and the end of the world, which has come in for so much theological attention of late, seems to Bultmann to be swallowed up in the Christian present...
...over the previous year-according to the Yearbook of American Churches. Thus 60.9% of U.S. citizens are now affiliated with religious bodies as compared with 57% in 1950, 36% in 1900. Denominational breakdown: 58,448,567 Protestants, 33,396,647 Roman Catholics, 5,500,000 Jews, 2.386,945 Eastern Orthodox, 367,370 Old Catholics and Polish National Catholics, and 63,000 Buddhists...
Dangerous Import. When the rabbis refused to give way, Premier Ben-Gurion stepped in, told Jerusalem's Mayor Gershon Agron to see that Glueck's plans were approved immediately. Last week the Orthodox bowed to the inevitable, granted Glueck his building permit...