Word: gerrish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service agencies, relief programs and other church-instigated "good works." American Christianity, charges Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty, has fallen back on precisely the kind of spiritual error that the Reformation was designed to combat. The typical parishioner, adds Marty's colleague at the University of Chicago, Theologian Brian Gerrish, feels that he has "done something that puts God in his debt if he puts down a nice thick carpet in the chancel hall-a sort of afterlife insurance policy." Some laymen feel that all too many clerics are trying to earn what Marty calls "Brownie Points" by engaging...