Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Copts, who number at least 10% of Egypt's population, are akin to Eastern Orthodox Christians in liturgy and doctrine. As in other Eastern churches, monks play an important role, since only they can become bishops. While the number of monks in Western religious communities has declined by the hundreds during the past decade, the nine ancient Coptic monasteries of Egypt, almost deserted a few years ago, are now filled to overflowing. Though Egypt is identified with Islam, no place could be more appropriate for a monastic renaissance. It was in Egypt that monasticism first flowered, nurtured...
...first, Wilson's posture was relatively orthodox, especially his stubborn three-year struggle to stave off devaluation of that national totem, the pound. After the failure of that costly effort, Wilson more and more found himself locked in a battle with his party's leftists. Turned out of power in 1970, he began tending his frayed ties with the unions and the Labor left as he watched Tory policies lead to a confrontation with the unions that nearly paralyzed the country. In his election campaign of 1974 he promised to restore labor peace with a "social contract" providing...
...Temple Mount, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon and hence Judaism's holiest site. It is also the site of Al Aqsa mosque, revered by Moslems as the third most sacred spot in Islam, after Mecca and Medina. Previously, Israel's Chief Rabbinate had forbidden Orthodox Jews even to set foot on the Temple Mount, lest they accidentally commit sacrilege by stepping into the ancient temple's lost Holy of Holies, where only the high priest could enter. But some militant Orthodox Jews chose to challenge the Moslems' monopoly of the mount by praying...
...State Henry Kissinger held his arm and assured him that his great deeds in foreign affairs would survive the upheaval. Close to the end, he broke down and asked Kissinger to join him on his knees in the little office just off the Oval. "You are not a very orthodox Jew and I am not an orthodox Quaker, but we need to pray," said the despairing President. Kissinger prayed, although he often sneered at Nixon behind his back and sometimes concealed his loathing only with difficulty when they were together. Privately, Kissinger referred to Nixon as "our meatball President...
Martin, a former Jesuit professor and religion editor of The National Review, also takes a dim view of any deviation from orthodox Catholicism. The French theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who tried to rationalize evolution and scientific discovery with Christianity, is attacked for contributing in a roundabout way to the possession of two priests because of his potentially heretical views. All of the hero figures in the book--the exorcists--are not intellectuals; they are middle-aged plodders from rural backgrounds, deeply rooted in god, country and Church...