Word: restorationism
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As disorder erupts with increasing frequency around the world, it is easy to feel relief at the current stability in Greece. The State Department, through leaks and newspaper feelers during the past several weeks, has apparently decided that the military junta is moving toward the restoration of constitutional government. Therefore...
The aid limitations which were imposed shortly after the coup last April 21 were never more than a token sign of displeasure but the current trend toward complete restoration of favor is an even more disheartening sign. Greece and its military rulers depend heavily upon military assistance from the U.S...
If the murder rate holds steady until 1970, when Parliament is scheduled to review the effects of the suspension, the government is extremely unlikely to call for the restoration of capital punishment. Besides, every execution device in Britain has been dismantled, with the sole exception of the gallows at Wands...
Since the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, in A.D. 70, Conservative and Orthodox Jews have beseeched God four times a week to "renew our days as they once were" - a plea for the restoration of the Temple. Although Zionism was largely a secular movement, one of its sources was...
Learned Jewish opinion has long debated when and how the Temple can be rebuilt. The great medieval philosopher Maimonides, in his Code of Jewish Law, argued that every generation of Jews was obliged to rebuild the Temple if its site was ever retaken, if a leader descended from David could...