Word: rome
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...into a seminary library, and it's hard to find scholarly books on apocalyptic theology; academics tend to treat this tradition as sociology. They see End Times interest rising and falling on waves of cataclysm and calm. Masses of people became convinced the end was nigh when Rome was sacked in 410, when the Black Death wiped out one-third of the population of 14th century Europe, when the tectonic shudders of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 caused church bells to ring as far away as England, and certainly after 1945, when for the first time human beings harnessed...
...shortly after LaHaye became a co-chairman of Republican Jack Kemp's short-lived presidential campaign, a Baltimore Sun reporter examined one of LaHaye's theological books, 1974's Revelation: Illustrated and Made Plain. The reporter discovered that LaHaye had called Catholicism a "false religion" and said Rome "too often gives man a false security that keeps him from seeking salvation." The Sun reprinted the comments on a Friday; Catholics and reporters cried foul, and LaHaye resigned from the campaign the following Monday...
Among the courses offered are College favorites “Constructing the Samurai,” taught by Professor of Japanese History Harold Bolitho, and Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature R.J. Tarrant’s “The Rome of Augustus...
...more somber note, she added, “As Aeneas to Rome, as Moses to the Promised Land, as John Harvard to the blessed banks of the Charles, so you are called to the path of truth...
...allusions suggested that the search for truth is difficult—Moses died before entering the Promised Land, Aeneas was not able to found Rome and Harvard died of tuberculosis less than a year after landing in Charlestown...