Word: protestante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches took place in 1961; in mood and spirit, it might have been 50 years away from the Fourth Assembly. At New Delhi, World Council delegates were still primarily concerned with the ecclesiastical and theological problems of church union. The marching orders...
Couve is a member of what the French call the H.S.P., for haute société protestante (Protestant high society), a powerful minority descended from the Huguenots within a predominantly Catholic country. The son of a Reims judge, he has excelled at whatever he undertook. He graduated first in a class of 300 at Paris' famed Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, passed with highest marks the examinations to become an inspecteur des finances in the French civil service. By 1940, at 33, he had become the Finance Ministry's director of foreign exchange, but he disliked serving...
The scene at Uppsala smacked more of a New Left "demo" than of a religious body in pious conference. Two student pickets who attempted a sidewalk teach-in were dragged off by Swedish cops. Some conferees slipped away to watch an underground flick replete with scenes of pot-smoking derelicts...
Mosaic Refuge. The concept of sanctuary dates back to Mosaic law, which held that fugitives from the laws of man could take refuge at the altar of God, who, as the ultimate source of justice, would protect them if they were innocent. Christianity broadened the idea to include protection of...
The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, D.D., presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.