Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also called the British "barbarians" for searching Greek Orthodox monasteries, where they found one pistol-packing monk...
Reluctantly, Field Marshal Harding ordered a search for hidden weapons in more than a score of Greek Orthodox monasteries and nunneries. An army spokesman refused to "say at this time whether the nuns were frisked," but a monk who was carrying an icon-engraved box containing two revolvers was arrested...
...Place, number three, will rely on touch and on his ability to drop the ball in the corners on a dead run. Fourth man Lee Folger plays a fast game, while Charlie MacVeagh has a powerful, orthodox style...
...himself.* Similarly, insistence on baptism by immersion, as it is presented in the Bible, fulfills the twin symbolism of washing from sin and of death and rebirth, as well as pointing to the Baptists' conviction that Scripture is the complete and sufficient basis of the Christian faith. Orthodox Christian tradition regards the church as the institution established on earth by Christ to receive continuous revelation, but to Baptists the church is merely a fellowship of individual believers, no one of whom has any spiritual authority over another. Each individual is essentially free to interpret Scripture for himself...
...other side for the authority of the Bible. All the other denominations should be united, for the difference between them is that between Tweedledum and Tweedledee." Christian history knows the Baptists as a dissident people-crotchety, intransigent, sometimes rude, if not downright dangerous in the eyes of the orthodox...