Word: roman
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Mary Karen Powers, the Roman Catholic member of the United Ministries, recalled one incident a few years...
...days, art history was very Western-focused and was based on the idea of progressive evolution--that Egyptian art led to Roman art which eventually led to twentieth-century art forms," Winter says...
...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
While Jesus may have had some ability to use trancelike therapies to "exorcise" demons, Crossan says, he used the incidents themselves chiefly to characterize "Roman imperialism as demonic possession." Both Crossan and Mack say Jesus' ideas are similar to those of the Cynics of the age. These were men who believed not in nothing, as the word now implies, but in the rejection of the standard beliefs and values of society. And so, contrary to the times, Jesus taught radical egalitarianism. He also demanded itinerancy of his disciples. Believing that such wanderlust subtly spread subversion, the Romans had him crucified...
Creating hope for greater tolerance and cooperation between Jews and Roman Catholics, Israel and the Vatican agreed to establish diplomatic relations. The Holy See will have its embassy in Tel Aviv rather than in the disputed city of Jerusalem, but Catholic officials clearly hope to participate in any negotiations on the future status of Jerusalem...