Word: rebirth
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Skeptical on Fascist Rebirth...
...Germany, said Barth, had been the stiff-necked resistance of the Confessional Church leaders who stubbornly continued throughout the war to pray for peace instead of victory, aided the Jews, consequently kept themselves in constant hot water with the Nazis. In this tough nucleus Barth saw hope for the rebirth of German Christianity. The new, united Evangelical Church, formed last August at the Treysa conference, was a good beginning. But Calvinist Barth looked with less favor on those conservative churchmen who were more interested in getting back to the good old pre-Hitler days by safeguarding hierarchical arrangements and hoary...
...priest was proved right is the climax to Brideshead Revisited, in which the ageless theme of rebirth through death is used melodramatically by Author Waugh to resurrect the remnants of the tottering family and leave Artist Ryder sadder, wiser, still unmarried to Lady Julia-and a religious man. Soon after, Ryder, now a soldier, watched troops being billeted at Brideshead...
Iran's self-proclaimed autonomous province, Azerbaijan, was quiet again after its political rebirth. But its mother state was still suffering from acute postnatal pains...
...purposeful men, shrewd men, perhaps ruthless men, and always confused men. There would be Babels of planning and organization, pyramids of policy. But these would come to no more than all those that had gone before unless, as on this day of Nativity, 1945, man felt within himself a rebirth of what some have called "the Inner Light," others "the Christ within." They would fail like all the rest unless man achieved the ultimate humility and the power implied in one of the Bible's most peremptory commandments...