Word: christendom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version was being lettered: "Trumped up stories of 'ritual murders' of Christian boys by Jewish communities were common throughout Europe during the Middle Ages and even much later. These fictions cost many innocent Jews their lives. [They] do not redound to the credit of Christendom, and we pray, 'Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers...
...Coptic Church traces its tradition to St. Mark, who is believed to have brought Christianity to Egypt, and recalls the days when Alexandria was a rival to Rome as Christendom's foremost city. But the Copts' Monophysite theology (which holds that Christ has only a single nature in which the human and divine are blended) was eventually condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and with the emergence of Islam, Coptic Christianity virtually went underground for centuries...
...rate," he says, "crucifixions have come into fashion again, and they were always a sign of the ancient days." This suggests that "primitive Christianity may also return," not so much reuniting man with his immediate past as carrying him far back through the centuries, to begin again at Christendom's own beginning. And it is to this point of origin that Amadeus struggles to find his way-to be reborn in the idea of the Nativity itself and to stand, with his two brothers, in the same relation to the hope-bearing Child as did three wise...
Archbishop James, who had been serving as the ecumenical representative to the World Council of Churches, is a close friend of Douglas Horton, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, who commented that "churches in Christendom can be happy with the election. The Archbishop is a very fine person...
...Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated that the Anglican Church would send an observer, if invited, but a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was dour. "We are very keen on the ecumenical movement," he said, "but not under Roman Catholic sponsorship. We want a union of Christendom, but not on their terms...