Word: paganisme
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Last week 224 British peers and members of Parliament asked their Government to: 1) provide schools with religion instructors, 2) make religion an optional subject in teachers' colleges, 3) begin daily services in schools, 4) arrange for textbooks on religion, 5) appoint Government inspectors of religion. -Said these signatories...
A devout Lutheran, he nevertheless felt in the presence of "the mystery of the fertility of the arable land," the stirrings of an ancient paganism. An authority on sacred music, he wrote voluminously about it. He also wrote, never published, a monumental history of the end of the Prussian order...
Paganism, streamlined and arrogant, has reconquered more of Europe than it has held for a thousand years. Yet even among Christians, few people think of World War II as a religious war-Europe's greatest since the Franks beat back the Saracens at Tours. This oversight and the pagan...
> Still more explicit was another Irish-American-Bishop Joseph Patrick Hurley of St. Augustine-who served at the Vatican from 1934 through the first year of World War II. Last week Bishop Hurley became the first prelate to declare openly that Naziism ("that rampant paganism which has plunged a continent...
This neo-paganism the Confessionals have fought fervently, the Lutheran Council less uncompromisingly. A reef-dodging diplomat, Bishop Marahrens is one of the three pre-Hitler Protestant bishops who has held on to his post, typifies an attitude of something-less-than-martyrdom. Under him, middle-of-the-road Protestantism...