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...nonBiblical. Even a single word with a few letters of the words preceding and following it may be identified in this way by consulting a concordance which lists every word in the Bible in its immediate context. Noncanonical works from the Apocrypha and unknown writings of the Qumran sect are identified more slowly by their use of key words and characteristic phrases...
...Ready for Glory. Cornelia eventually won her appeal to the Privy Council, but not before Connelly v. Connelly became the focus of a violent newspaper battle between British Protestants and Catholics, with U.S. papers echoing both sides. Pierce again became an Episcopal rector (after a brief dalliance with a sect prophesying the imminent Second Coming), and led the fight against Rome, firing off pamphlets informing readers that a "Roman Catholic may any day have the duty of shooting his sovereign imposed on him" and that celibacy was a "myth without basis in Catholic dogma or fact...
Damon sees his mother die a Christian martyr and feels his mission to be learning the truths of this strange new sect to determine its place in his own life. His initial reaction is, "If that's your religion, I say to hell with it." He thinks Christianity has a "fascinated obsession with wickedness" and, with a truly moral concern, thinks Christianity an excuse for letting people sin all their lives but still enter Heaven by last-minute repentance...
...three-story building at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn is the hub and powerhouse of one of the most intense religious brotherhoods in the modern world: the Lubavitcher movement. In Communist Russia and North Africa, Australia and all over the U.S.. an estimated 10,000 followers of this Hasidic sect look to Brooklyn for light and guidance, for it is the home of their Rebbe,* Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He is the seventh leader of the Lubavitchers, a man whose wisdom is believed by his followers to be something more than human...
...outsiders have made the effort to try to understand this paradoxical sect of highly organized, missionary-minded mystics, strongest remnant of the great age of Hasidism, that inspired Eastern European Jewry during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the March and April issues of Commentary, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner of Temple Israel in South Orange, N.J. presents the results of a year-long study of the Brooklyn Lubavitchers...