Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics are normally defined in terms of doctrine-papal in fallibility, Marianism, the nature of the church. But there is a difference that lies deeper than dogma: the basic approach of men to prayer and piety. It is possible, for example, that a Southern Baptist could become intellectually convinced by the claims of Catholicism. Yet, accustomed as he is to a tradition of free prayer, Bible-centered sermons and mighty hymns, he might still feel alien to a church that offers its believers private confession of sins to a priest, solemn Mass with incense...
...liturgy-ideals that were all carried over into the life of Catholic laymen. Along with doctrine, Protestantism strongly rejected this otherworldly spirituality. Puritanism, notes Congregationalist Historian Horton Davies of Princeton, dismissed liturgy "as a lame man might a crutch when he believed himself healed," in favor of free prayer, the Bible and simplicity. Davies quotes from a 1641 Puritan attack on Anglican Prayer Book worship as the work of "mere Surplice and Service-Book men, such as cannot doe so much as a Porter in his frocke; for he doth Service, and the Priest onely sayes service." But Davies adds...
...today, notes Quaker Douglas V. Steere of Haverford, Protestants are highly suspicious of any claims "that would declare, or even imply, that the priest, or the saints, or the Virgin, or the institutional church stand as an indispensable intermediary." Thus Protestantism puts a stronger emphasis upon individual responsibility in prayer and worship than does Catholicism...
Right to Question. In summing up, Benedictine Theologian Kilian McDonnell said that Protestants have a right to question "the noisy efficiency of much of Catholic devotional literature, the ritualism of much Catholic prayer." Equally objectionable is the "raging objectivism" of Catholic theology that emphasizes Christ's real presence in the Eucharist and ignores what is of greater importance to Protestants-"the continual presence of Christ in the believer." On the other hand, Catholics can rightly argue that "there is a profound dislocation of a sacramental nature found within Protestantism." But true Christian spirituality, McDonnell argues, requires both framework...
...19th century trail breakers despised Bouguereau (Cézanne cried, "J'emmerde Bouguereau!"; Matisse fled his studio in anger). Though his brush stroke was immaculate, his subject matter tended toward soaring echelons of well-stuffed nymphs in the buff, ruddy satyrs in postures of half prayer, half lust. When religiosity overcame him, he produced limpid-eyed madonnas and tableaux of martyrs (preferably female) borne by Roman-nosed pallbearers (preferably male). In the heyday of the Second Empire, no one admitted being titillated by his tangles of tushies and concupiscent cupids; the critics professed to see only the pursuit...