Word: testaments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...series progresses, hairy, obscene women with their skirts pulled down around their knees join in the orgy. Money flutters around them; gigantic vultures hover about them. Huge, grotesque babies' heads, their mouths distorted with pain, are superimposed on pages torn from the Bible containing wrathful Old Testament passages and stenciled with prison numbers. Naked cadavers dangle; a pregnant woman is crucified head downward...
Revolt Against Rome. Excommunicated, Luther was saved from arrest and death by Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony, whose domains included Wittenberg, and given sanctuary at the lonely Wartburg Castle. Luther stayed for nearly a year, during which he translated the New Testament into German. Meanwhile, the revolt against Rome spread; in town after town, priests and town councils removed statues from the churches and abandoned the Mass. New reformers, many of them far more radical than Luther, appeared on the scene-Ulrich Zwingli in Zurich, the ex-Dominican Martin Bucer in Strasbourg, Thomas Munzer in Zwickau. More important, princes...
...Henry R. Luce, of New York, New York, declare this to be my last will and testament." As with the will of any successful man, the 22-page document filed in New York County Surrogate's Court last week was complex and lengthened by terms of trusts and the powers of the trustees named to administer them. But the effect of it was to make the Henry Luce Foundation, which was set up in 1936 in honor of Luce's father, Henry Winters Luce, the principal beneficiary of the $110 million estate. In the past, the foundation...
...life for my church, not for any direction within the church, not for any theological school, not for any special task of the church, but for the church as a whole." Thus, in 1960, did Protestant Bishop Otto Dibelius sum up his career in what he called his ecclesiastical testament. For the longtime head of Germany's Evangelical (Lutheran) Church, who died after a stroke and erysipelas last week at 86, it was a fitting self-appraisal...
...century, no man spoke up more strongly for the freedom of the church than Otto Dibelius. A stern, proud, blunt Prussian, Dibelius was one of the first German churchmen to protest Nazism, whose distorted views on Christianity he later termed "a frightful mixture of race, blood, soil and New Testament." Suspended as superintendent-general of the Kurmark church district in 1933, he continued his resistance by writing clandestine leaflets-for which he was arrested several times...