Word: saviour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood victorious on the walls of Jerusalem . . . After 70,000 Moslems had been put to the sword, and the harmless Jews had been burnt in their synagogue . .. the bloody victors ... ascended the Hill of Calvary, amidst the loud anthems of the clergy; kissed the stone which had covered the Saviour of the world; and bedewed with tears of joy and penitence the monument of their redemption...
...Life, silver-thatched, 61-year-old Dr. Mackay pictures Protestantism as ringed by three dangerous enemies. The first is religious syncretism, which "denies that Jesus Christ is the truth" but "makes Him one single aspect of a larger truth." The second enemy: Communism, which "substitutes . . . the Proletariat ... as the Saviour of mankind." The third: "Political Catholicism" of the Roman Catholic Church...
...mauve-capped sentries pace slowly. From each of the 19 towers which space the mile-long encircling wall, the blue muzzles of machine guns point out over the huge (pop. 4,000,000), busy city of Moscow. Inside the Kremlin's walls, the tiny wooden church of Our Saviour of the Pine Forest, long since shorn of its bonds to God, nestles beneath the great golden domes and onion-topped towers of the Uspensky and Arkhangelsky Cathedrals, which are now museums...
...short "Seeds of Treason" is not a satisfactory history; it is rather brief for the prosecution. The authors, like many others, believe Hiss a villain, Chambers a saviour. Other reporters, other spectators believe Hiss is the hero and Chambers is the devil. It is highly unlikely that there is a member of either extremist faction emotionally suited to record the Hiss-Chambers mess in the cool, balanced way that history demands
...love for God, which was part of that communion with his Creator enjoyed by Adam before the Fall... is also transferred to the person of Christ... If, then, such a view is not mistaken ... we may perhaps be able more fully to understand why it was that the Saviour of mankind had to be both loved and hated by those to whom He came to reveal the true nature of God. Thus it was that the suffering servant of God was able to pass on to men the knowledge of God, which He Himself possessed, by His suffering...