Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Harvard Divinity School, as a member of the Conference of Theological Seminaries of the United States and Canada, has been sharing in a survey of the Protestant ministry in the United States. The statistical investigation has been conducted by The Institute of Social and Religious Research, and its findings...
There are 200,000 Protestant congregations in the United States and Canada, served by about 150,000 ministers. There are 200 institutions engaged in the training of ministers. There are four or five Divinity Schools in the United States, non-sectarian in character, which are, as Harvard Divinity School is...
The printed report is candid in recording and appraising the facts. The facts are significant. Of the 150,000 ministers in question 50% have had neither college nor seminary training. 18% have had college training only; 12% have had seminary training only. This leaves only 20% of the Protestant ministers...
In any big city such a group of churchmen fraternize, lunch together, extend a friendly hand to a newcomer and, if he is a Protestant, welcome him into the local Federation of Churches. Lately a newcomer appeared in Detroit. But in all Christian charity many a Detroiter of the cloth...
Kaufman has especially shown a sympathetic understanding of the minor details of the musician's environment and the effect of his heritage on his compositions and behaviour. He portrays the strong influence of the orthodox character of the senior Mendelsohn on his son's education, the fight against the Jewish...