Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mystery of the church: the Trinitarian doctrine of three persons in one God. The word Trinity is not in Scripture, although the idea is there in Paul's reference to "the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit." Tertullian, in the 3rd century, was apparently the first to formulate the term trinitas, giving theological definition to the idea...
...Council of Nicaea in 325 turned to a word derived from Hellenic philosophy, homoousia, to express its conviction that Jesus was of the same "substance" with the Father. At the Council of Constantinople, 56 years later, church fathers responded to heresy by defining the divinity of the Holy Spirit and proclaiming that the three "persons," or hypostases, were coequal manifestations...
...Father and Son does not yet exhaust the reality, the nature of God. It is not that this establishing and being established of God threatens the unity of God. It is the Father and the Son together who clinch the unity of God a third time in the Holy Spirit...
...mahogany in Mala-cafiang Palace, home of the islands' rulers-Spanish, American, and finally Filipino-for a century, Johnson noted that four principles dominated the talks. They were that "aggression must fail," that the allies must press pacification and development programs in South Viet Nam, that the budding spirit of cooperation among Asians must be nurtured, and that peace must be pursued. The important thing, he said, was not to mislead Hanoi as Hitler was misled before World War II. "I know that some people scoff at my use of Munich to illustrate this point," he said...
...mounted flimsy scaffolds in Moorish mosques, prowled the chill cellars of El Escorial, and nestled in the niches of the Prado. One of the most fascinating chapters of the book depicts the 800-year-long confrontation of Moor and Christian (see color pages), a conflict that forged the Spanish spirit, united a nation and changed Spain's art forever...