高英第七册Unit--Thirteen.doc

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Unit 13
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The Trial that Rocked the World
Pre-reading Brainstorming:
What do you know about Charles t allowed to get married all their lives. People who belong to Roman Catholic Church have a tradition of going to church services every week.
For Protestants, things are not so rigorous. They can worship God at home. Pastors, ministers and clergymen can get married. They don't have a supreme governing body as the Roman Catholics do. For Roman Catholics, you can only talk to God by way of a church, confessing your sins in the confessional to a priest who grants you absolution in the name of God, but the Protestant believe they can talk directly to God. Denominations of Protestants are Anglican, Baptist, Presbyterian, etc.
Fundamentalism: ①religious beliefs based on a literal interpretation of everything in the Bible and regarded as fundamental to Christian faith and morals
② conservative religious movement that arose among members of various Protestant denominations early in the 20th cent. Its aim is to maintain traditional interpretations of the Bible and what believed to be the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith. Nowadays this word can apply to other religions. 
Orthodox Eastern Church has another divine creature to worship, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Roman Catholic and Orthodox Eastern members draw cross on their chests, while Protestants do not.
There are other people who claim themselves followers of God, too. Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism (Latter Day Saints) etc.
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Abraham: the first great Patriarch of Israel. Wife Sarah. At 75, Sarah presented Abraham (then 85) her Egyptian maidservant, Hegar. Hagar bore a son named Ishmael. God sent an angel to Hagar and promised her that Ishmael would have uncounted descendants. Ishmael was the father of a namadic nation which lived in northern Arabia. Modern-day Arabs claim descent from Ishmael. At the age of 90, Sarah gave birth to Isaac (Abraham was now 100