Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sugar-Coating. How much all this would benefit the majority of Ethiopians was open to question. The nation's most pressing need is land reform. But the Ethiopian Orthodox Church owns 40% of all land, and feudal landlords the rest, and the Emperor is helpless to take on either group...
Extinction in a Station Wagon. As an Orthodox Jew, Author Wouk (who now lives in the Virgin Islands during the winter) is not overly sympathetic to the "improvisations" of Reform or Conservative Judaism, and he finds Orthodoxy hale and hearty despite the stringencies of its demands in the world of the barbecue pit and the P.T.A. There has been, he admits, "a well-known cascading-from orthodox to Conservative, and from Conservative to Reform groups. But Reform does not swell as it might, because of attrition into disinterest and loss of identity. Nor, curiously, does orthodoxy seem to diminish...
...remaining 60 per cent who answered the poll, including the convert, seem to be orthodox in their faith. To begin with they practice their religion. They also agree with the Church on issues of Catholic doctrine (for instance, they unanimously affirm that "God is just"), yet they vary among themselves on all matters of opinion...
...families of the students reveals some parallels to present positions. Those students who have become agnostic in opinion characterize the influence of this tradition as "slight" or "moderate"; the fourteen strong Catholics predominantly characterized their background as including a "marked" religious tradition, although a sizable segment of the orthodox evaluated their tradition as only of "slight" or "moderate" influence...
Vatican Radio last week confirmed what Protestants have suspected ever since Catholic observers held "informal" discussions with Eastern Orthodox delegates at the World Council of Churches meeting in Rhodes last month (TIME, Aug. 31 et seq.). There will be an unofficial conference in Venice next year between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox theologians to discuss points of agreement and disagreement between the two churches. The main-and massive-stumbling block to possible union: recognition of the Pope as head of the church...