Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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To the nonbeliever, all such speculation is bootless. If God does not exist, there is no First Coming, much less a Second, and the end of the world is a - concept without meaning. Many mainstream Protestant and Roman Catholic theologians argue that millenarians like Walvoord and Dyer misuse scriptural prophecies...
George Bush prefers action to abstraction, but last week he delivered a fervent argument to bolster support for the war with Iraq. In a speech before a Washington audience of radio and TV Protestant evangelists, he invoked a long-standing Christian doctrine in the battle against Saddam Hussein, that of...
Bush's words were a direct response to the unusually widespread criticism of the war in American religious circles. The Roman Catholic hierarchy has questioned whether the U.S.-led military action meets the traditional just-war criteria. The war has been branded "morally indefensible" by officials of Eastern Orthodox and...
The negative connotation that "sleeping in" carries in a society dominated by the Protestant work ethic is a tool of the very forces draining our creative energies by forcing us to stay awake. In reclaiming the term for positive protest activities, SIESTA attacks the subliminal linguistic conventions of the anti...
REMEMBRANCE. Amid the turmoil of Belfast, two elderly people meet at a cemetery and form a Protestant-Catholic romance -- tender and proper and doomed by "the troubles." Quiet and exquisitely acted, this touching off- Broadway drama features the lovable Malachy McCourt and the unforgettable Aideen O'Kelly, perhaps the finest...