Word: christs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found his deepest interests in the church and the law. He attended the Paris peace talks of 1919, then settled back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year-old ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Dulles finally agreed. Said Dulles: "My own conscience wouldn't have it otherwise...
...carry Christ home with me from the altar, I am afraid He will have to come to the kitchen, because much of my time is spent there . . . If I am to create, and I believe God made me to do just that, why can't I create feast-day specials from eggs and milk and butter? . . . I once tried to paint a picture, but the colors ran and the perspective was poor. I tried to write music, but even the dog howled to hear it. I tried to weave a piece of cloth, but the warp broke...
Spokesman for the Protestants, Dean Walter Russell Bowie of Union Theological Seminary, began by reminding readers that "Protestantism and Roman Catholicism are both in their own conception interpreters of one and the same gospel- the gospel of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Furthermore, Protestants can sincerely admire much that Roman Catholicism specifically represents . . . What then . . . are Protestants concerned about...
...spiritual independence, truth can be trusted to emerge. On the other hand, Roman Catholicism is not only a religion but a type of organized religion which, because of certain implacable assumptions, claims not merely equality of life and opportunity, but dominance . . . [It] claims ... to be the only church of Christ . . . Bluntly, this means that Rome regards Protestantism as a perversion of Christianity. In every country where it is strong enough, the Roman Church will control, so far as it can, education, the laws concerning marriage and divorce, and regulations about morality generally, not only for its own communicants...
...misleading because of the widely varying methods of compiling membership: some include all persons in the cultural, racial or nationality group served, some include baptized babies, others rate only adults as members. But the biggest percentage gain over 1947 was reported by the 1,872,049-member Disciples of Christ, with 9%. Next came the Northern Presbyterians, with 4.2%, and the Southern Presbyterians, with 3.9%. The Roman Catholics ranked seventh in percentage of increase, with 3.1%, while the Protestant Episcopal Church gained...