Word: christendom
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...Wittenberg University. Disgusted not only with the traffic in indulgences but with its doctrinal underpinnings, he forcefully protested to Albrecht-never expecting that his action would provoke a sweeping uprising against a corrupt church. Luther's challenge culminated in the Protestant Reformation and the rending of Western Christendom, and made him a towering figure in European history. In this 500th anniversary year of his birth (Nov. 10, 1483), the rebel of Wittenberg remains the subject of persistent study. It is said that more books have been written about him than anyone else in history, save his own master, Jesus...
...Second Vatican Council in October 1962. When Pope Paul VI formally closed it last week, he heralded it as "among the greatest events of the church." Whatever the future's judgment, there can be little doubt that the council indeed represents a momentous step forward in carrying Christendom's oldest, largest body into modern times and bringing it into closer contact with all men-religious...
...Charlemagne," Ted Turner replies, at least half-seriously, "saving Christendom from the infidels." -By William A. Henry III. Reported by B.J. Phillips/Atlanta
Saturday's service at the cradle of English Christendom, Canterbury Cathedral, was to be the emotional apex of the visit-and the most splendid ecumenical event of John Paul's reign. Greeted by Prince Charles and other dignitaries, the Pontiff took his place in a processional through the great West Door. Joining the symbolic march to the altar were Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Anglican primates, flown in from four other continents to participate. It was the first time any Pontiff was to worship in an Anglican cathedral...
...British raj, ridding the country of the Muggeridge type forever. Assigned to intelligence during World War II, he regards the conflict as alternately bemusing and boring. In America, he surveys a country "not of humans but of mechanical brains." At home he concludes that "the true destroyer of Christendom isn't Stalin or Hitler or even the Dean of Canterbury and his like, but Liberalism...