Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One of the first Protestant missionaries in Korea was an Underwood-Presbyterian Horace Grant Underwood, of the typewriter family. He went out to the Orient in 1885, married a medical missionary who became royal physician to Korea's Queen Min. In his buttoned-up black coat and white tie...
"The Real Culprit." The 15 Protestant pastors who sat in Sofia's courtroom accused of espionage and black-marketeering (TIME, March 7) were the spiritual descendants of the same U.S. missionaries. As their trial wore on, it became plain that the pastors were being tried solely because of their...
Swiss Theologian Karl Barth has somewhat the same position in contemporary Protestant thinking that Einstein* has in science: Barth's complex system of thought is fully appreciated only by the highbrows, but, like Einstein's, his influence is wide and deep. When the Christian Century began a series...
Protestant churchmen busied themselves last week in the statesmen's world. In the silver ballroom of the Hotel Cleveland, 460 bishops, preachers, missionaries and other delegates to the National Study Conference on the Churches and World Order wrestled with a troublous subject: U.S. leadership in world affairs. They had...
Culture's next essential, concludes Eliot, is for "the great majority of human beings [to] go on living in the place in which they were born." Regional habits, dialects, loyalties, eccentricities and faiths all contribute to a national culture by ensuring vital "friction between its parts." In the same...