Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relationship between faith and science can be vexing, but one way the Roman Catholic Church and mainstream Protestant denominations reconcile the two is to say they each deal with different spheres of knowledge and so are not in conflict. This is a sort of metaphysical version of Christ's admonition to render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's, and it is a position that Pope John Paul II reaffirmed last week when he made a statement on evolution. "Consideration of the method used in diverse orders of knowledge allows for the concordance...
Director Todd Olson obviously knows his Shakespeare. Even though the play is taken out of its original Roman context, the Bard speaks for himself--even without togas and Roman columns, the play's fundamental themes remain intact and powerful...
...Elizabethan tragedy accessible to modern audiences. Most of the play rested on the performance of Brett Egan '99, who, decked in a leather jacket and silver pants, made an intense Coriolanus. Egan's job was not an easy one, given the complexity of his role: Coriolanus is a Roman general who returns from war to find himself adored by the people, but his popularity causes petty political jealousy among the consuls (Taya Weiss '99 and Ryan McCarthy '97), which leads to his banishment...
...every Christian--or even most Christians--could agree on a depiction of the religion or even it's main themes, there would not be so many radically different denominations. The Church of Latter-Day Saints (also called the Mormon church), is classified as Christian. So are the Roman Catholics, the Coptic Christians and the Christian Scientists, not to mention the Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Baptists, Nazarenes, Lutherans...the list could take the rest of this column. Even within denominations, there are ongoing struggles about some of the basic tenets of belief...
...coveted award to two men who have never ceased perpetuating their homeland's hope for self-rule. One is Jose Ramos-Horta, 46, an exiled public relations ambassador for East Timor's guerrillas, who is now based in Australia; the other is Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, 48, the Roman Catholic bishop who resides in East Timor. While the award spotlights a neglected conflict, the world is divided about what to do about East Timor. Belo and Ramos-Horta certainly...