Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never hesitated to criticize Protestants (particularly for shallowness. overoptimism or bureaucracy), but it also bears down hard on some aspects of Catholicism. Sample: "The Roman Catholic Church, if it persists in wandering off after the fantasies of Mariolatry, will thereby make the task of communicating and commending the Christian Gospel to this age very largely a Protestant responsibility...
...preaching the gospel of God!" he stormed to the court. "Great God! Great God! Great God!" As the frontiersmen pushed west into the new land, Baptist preachers were never far behind them, scriptures in their saddlebags. After the Civil War, which caused a split in the denomination that has never fully healed, the Northerners settled themselves in the big cities to tend their machines, and the number of Baptists among them began to stabilize...
...Crow never became one of them. It is on this subject that Adams' views differ most deeply from the majority of his fellow Southern Baptists. The Wor'd Alliance is on record as saying: "Discrimination and segregation ... are ethically and morally indefensible and contrary to the Gospel of Christ." But Ted Adams knows that such ringing phrases from the leadership are largely ignored by the rank and file. Like many another Southern church leader, he is careful not to push the burdened Baptist conscience too hard. "I am perfectly aware that there are complex and emotion-packed problems...
Protestants have good reason to get upset. They are faced with a steady and alarming rise in Roman Catholic membership and power in the U.S. Attacking Catholicism is hardly a solution. Instead, Protestant churchmen might try preaching the Holy Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If this were done, Protestantism would again have appeal as true Christianity, and Roman error would naturally be unable to cope with the light of Truth...
...sponsor was CICCU-the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union-called "Kick You" by both its friends and enemies. The 400 undergraduate members stimulate many of their fellow students and dons to snorts of irritation at their frankly anti-intellectual attitude and their assurance that they alone have the Gospel of Christ. "Why, didn't you know?" said one classics student last week. "In Cambridge, Christ is the property of CICCU." "But you can't enter into CICCU's Christ," said another, "because they have only one part of Him-the crucified part...