Word: prophetizer
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...From his brilliant suggestions for motorized militarism in World War I to his criticisms on the weakness of the Maginot Line in the years preceding World War II, Charles de Gaulle has appeared to be a prophet before his time. Far too few people take this man seriously. I nominate him to fill the third position in the 20th century "trinity of greatness" with Churchill and Roosevelt...
Christian faith proclaims that Jesus was God's divine son. But church historians have long known that certain Jewish followers of Christ, in the early decades after his death, regarded him as merely another prophet of Israel, and denounced Peter and Paul for preaching his message to the Gentiles. Now extraordinary new light has been cast on the beliefs of one such sect of Jewish Christians known as the Nassoreans or Nazarenes, in the form of a medieval Arab manuscript discovered in the archives of Istanbul. Biblical Scholar David Flusser of Jerusalem's Hebrew University...
...renes is widely at variance with previous conceptions about the sect. Although Jerome claimed that the Nazarenes be lieved in Christ's divinity, the book declares that they regarded Joseph as the natural father of Jesus, whose Passion and death were proof that he was simply a great prophet and righteous man. On the grounds that Jesus himself was an observant Jew, the Nazarenes practiced circumcision, abstained from eating forbidden foods, faced toward Jerusalem when praying, and observed the Sabbath on Saturday instead of Sunday. The Nazarenes refused to celebrate Christmas, which they regarded as a pagan feast...
...London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem . . . and held their noses." Of the twelve major newspaper critics, at least four held their breath. Harold Hobson in the Sunday Times said of Osborne: "He is not only our most important dramatist; he is also our chief prophet." According to Ronald Bryden of the Observer, "the effect of A Bond Honoured in performance is marvelously theatrical." Alan Brien of the Sunday Telegraph thought it "a serious, ambitious and valuable play which matures in the memory and fertilizes the imagination," while for Milton Shulman in the Evening Standard...
...GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. Christ is part prophet, part social reformer in a memorable Bible epic, taken word for word from Scripture by Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist...