Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program was so discriminatingly planned that I cannot forebear some discussion of it. There chief strands of late 16th century music were brought together. Clement's famous Adoramus and a Benedictus by Palestrina represented what was called the stile antico, a restrained contrapuntal style used in orthodox church music. Giovanni Gabrieli's dazzling Symphoniae Sacrae combined elements of both the Renaissance splendor of Venice and the Baroque love o the spectacular; finally, a number of chansons by Lassus, Arcadelt, and Regnard exemplified the piquant secular songs of the period...
...conservative guest challenged the soundness of Holyoke's religious principles, but his colleague John Barnard declared him to be as orthodox a Calvinist as any men: yet too much to a gentleman . . . to cram his principles down another man's throat.' 'Then he must be the man,' said the governor, and Holyoke was elected...
Although the Anglican Church is a tolerant communion, such proposals, coming from a consecrated bishop, were a little hard for orthodox churchmen to take. In 1947, after Bishop Barnes had published The Rise of Christianity, a book expounding his unorthodox views, the archbishop of Canterbury declared: "If his views were mine, I should not feel that I could still hold episcopal office in the church...
Bishop Barnes, who liked to call himself "the bold, bad bishop," ignored this thinly veiled summons to resign. The archbishop, who has only limited power over British bishops, did not attempt to remove him. But orthodox churchmen kept tossing brickbats in Bishop Barnes's direction, and at church convocations he took to vesting himself outside the regular bishops' robing room, so warm was the disapproval of his colleagues...
...reasons, can do this sort of job more efficiently than any government. And, if its workers are dedicated Christians as well as good technicians, they will be able to transmit to Indians, Africans and Burmese their faith in a Christian and democratic way of life more effectively than most orthodox missionaries...