Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reality of committed churches, from a modest club of European and American Protestants to a worldwide brotherhood of 217 Christian churches representing every Christian view but that of Rome. And thanks to the continuing dialogue with the Vatican that Visser 't Hooft has carefully fostered, even Roman Catholic participation in the council is no longer beyond hope...
...root source of a modern Christian morality, says Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Simons of Indore, India, is not so much the Bible or natural law as the consensus of what constitutes "the good or welfare of man, in society and individually." In the current issue of the U.S. theological quarterly Cross Currents, Dutch-born Bishop Simons uses his consensus theory to propose a radical revision of ethics that would make certain violations of generally accepted moral principles reasonable exceptions to the rule rather than sinful inconsistencies...
Hatred of Jews and Judaism was something that medieval man learned not merely from sermons and books condemning deicide but from art as well. In a new book called The Medieval Jew in the Mirror of Christian Art, published in France by the Roman Catholic Augustinian friars, Bernhard Blumenkranz presents the first scholarly study of the way that Jews were portrayed and caricatured in the paintings, sculpture, frescoes and illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages...
...argues Blumenkranz, an Austrian Jew, Judaism was an object of hatred and scorn in Christian art. Mocking the Jews' refusal to eat pork, a sculptured capital from a church in Uppsala, Sweden, depicts Jews drinking at the udders of a sow. Although the Gospels explicitly accuse Roman soldiers of bringing about Jesus' death, some artists went out of their way to show Jews scourging...
...ROMAN AFRICA IN COLOR by Roger Wood and Sir Mortimer Wheeler. 160 pages. McGraw-Hill. $25. A tour of dead cities washed by the Mediterranean, with their groves of white columns, deserted temples, amphitheaters, markets and wheel-rutted streets. The Roman Empire in Africa stretched from Alexandria on the border of Egypt across to Tangier on the Strait of Gibraltar; its remarkably preserved ruins give the best picture of the Ancient World available today...