Religion

Religion

Jesus Christ at 2005: Where is Christianity Today?
by Dan E. Austin

A new Jewish religious sect emerged more than two thousand and four (closer to two thousand and five) years ago and quickly attracted followers for a Jewish born young Rabbi (Rabboni) called Jesus. The organized Jewish state and religious Establishment of that time trailed this Jesus with much suspicion and regarded him as an outcast and a rebellious zealot with mysterious supernatural powers. The leading Political groups among the mainly Aramaic and Hebrew speaking peoples of the Palestinian nation of Israel at that time were the Pharisees, Sadducees and the Herodians. The latter were named after the successive reigns of the monarch Herod. Most noted among these Herodians was Herod the King who ordered the slaughter of all children in Bethlehem and all along the adjacent coast thereof, from two years old and under.
See the December, 2004 issue of Transatlantic Times: European Edition for full story

All Saints Church,Brixworth Northamtonshire
By Ron Jones
A surprisingly little known edifice, the All Saints Church at Brixworth, Northamptonshire is nonetheless one of the most important churches in Northern Europe. It was built starting around 675 AD from materials that included Roman bricks and tiles taken from a ruined Roman villa that stood nearby. That villa had only been vacated just over two centuries previously. The red coloring seen in the accompanying painting shows where the Roman materials were used. The builders also used local stone as can be seen in the painting. Recent research has shown that much of this stone was from the Leicester area, some thirty miles away. The extreme difficulty that would have been encountered in transporting the heavy stone in those times indicates the importance attached to this particular church. The building work possibly was executed by masons from Italy or Gaul (France) as such expertise was not available in Britain...
See the December, 2004 issue of Transatlantic Times: American/European Edition for full story