Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Episcopalians. Except for its close linkage to the English Government, the Church of England's organization is practically that of the Protestant Episcopalian Church in the U. S., and the Episcopalian churches of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and other areas of the British Commonwealth. The hierarchy of those churches is...
Idiosyncracies. This lack of theocratic organization has permitted many idiosyncracies to develop in Protestant Episcopal services. A priest, if his parishioners tolerate his fancies, may add little gestures to his services, may modify the presentation of his ritual. This congregation may sit during certain prayers; that one may stand. This...
Of them religion has been the most reluctant to admit the wisdom of control. The sacred writings of all religions make specific injunctions for generation, impugn sterility. The barren woman must hang her head; the fertile woman is praised, yet not glorified. Her labour is not pitied. However, the Protestant...
Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, attended and argued for a form of confessional in Protestant churches as a means of relief. Said he: "The confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate to the Protestant churches, but motivated by a real determination to help meet the inward problems of individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems...
...with the fundamentalist doctrine, but because of its attitude towards the individual. A large part of its book is taken up with facts supporting this contention. In the course of his discussion he is led naturally to the statement--that we never got the Reformation and we never had Protestantism! He proceeds to indict the churches on the charge of interpreting religion in terms of an out-worn theology--the literal interpretation of the Bible. He is ready to agree that theology is essential to religion, but wants a constant religion and a progressive theology! His Religion, he describes...