Word: saviour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Denominational Identity. The Four-square Church, which ranks among the nation's most fundamentalist Christian bodies, pays considerably more attention to faith healing than theology. Its members adhere strictly to Aimee's fourfold teaching of Christ as saviour, healer, baptizer and coming king, supplement the Bible with a booklet of her teachings. Most of today's members never saw hypnotic Aimee in the flesh, but they teach a hagiographic account of her life, celebrate every Oct. 9, her birthday, as Founder...
...Holbrook forgot several subsequent lines, blew others, and later admitted: "I was really frightened." Among the Prestigious. Then came the annual presidential prayer breakfast, attended by some 1,000 men at the Mayflower Hotel. Evangelist Billy Gra ham preached, Revival Singer George Beverly Shea let out resoundingly with My Saviour God to Thee, and Johnson called for a privately financed, all-faiths "Center of Prayer" in Washington. He then went across the hall to a separate prayer breakfast for women, assured the ladies that prayer in the Johnson family has always been "aloud and proud." Flying to New York, Johnson...
...scholar believes that Jesus was born in December; Smit thinks that the most likely time was the end of August. Not until the 4th century did the early church commemorate the Saviour's birth-and then it shrewdly but arbitrarily picked a date that coincided with a joyous pagan feast...
...event and in the dress of the day the grisly event took on a more direct meaning. Only one other known altarpiece is devoted to the same subject-the one by Dieric Bouts and Hugo van der Goes that hangs in the Museum of the Church of the Holy Saviour in Bruges...
...Greece, most of the 9,000 priests are underpaid and poorly educated, and the bishops seem to be locked in continual battle with Parliament over such jurisdictional problems as the appointment of new metropolitans. But Greek Orthodoxy has also given rise to the impressive Zoe (life) and Sotir (Saviour) brotherhoods-associations of dedicat ed, theologically trained laymen and clergy who each Sunday spread throughout the country preaching evangelical sermons. "We want to create a more fervent Christian life," says Father Giannoulatos, a leader...