Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balancing Income. America's postwar seminary students are a mature and serious lot. They are also numerous: U.S. Protestant seminarians rose from 13,000 in 1938 to 24,000 in 1947, Roman Catholics from 16,000 to 23,000, and Jews from 900 to 2,000. At McCormick, which...
Despite these worldly cares, which the apostles had in their time too, the postwar seminarians are a quality lot. Said McCormick Vice President Kenneth G. Neigh: "The level is far higher than when I graduated here in 1936." Last week, in other Chicago seminaries, officials agreed with Neigh. The men...
Two and a half centuries ago an ugly rumor swept Britain. It damned the royal son just born to Queen Mary and arrogant, Roman Catholic King James II as a changeling, slipped into the royal childbed in a warming pan. The rumor was later proved false, but for a while...
Without Impediment. "Anyone who writes Latin poetry at the age of twelve is bound to end up doing something like translating the Bible," said a Knox acquaintance recently. From his Eton days, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, now 60, has been noted for his witty, agile mind. The sixth child of the...
There's a little old Calvinist in the woodpile, too. One reason why modern man has troubles with his emotions, said University of Illinois Psychiatrist Richard L. Jenkins, stems from the Protestant Reformation, "which increased the number and severity of the moral taboos and denied the certainty of forgiveness...