Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roman Catholics and Protestants cannot even agree on the Bible. Their deep difference of view was highlighted again this month with the publication of two new editions, one Catholic, one Protestant.
The Westminster Study Edition of the Bible (Westminster Press; $10), prepared by scholars from five Protestant denominations, sticks to the traditional King James wording-but is far from conservative in commenting on it.
Say the Catholic editors: "The Pentateuch [first five books of the Bible] is substantially the work of Moses. It is a closely knit literary unit and was originally conceived as one work written for a single purpose." Say the Protestant editors: "The Pentateuch did not receive its final form until...
Protestant fundamentalists are more conservative than the Catholics in their Biblical criticism. On Oct. 7, 38 fundamentalist editors will publish the Pilgrim Edition (Oxford University Press; $4.50). They use the King James translation and make flatly fundamentalist comments. Sample: "We can agree . . . with the suggested date of approximately 4000 B.C...
The Rev. Daniel A. Poling, world-famed preacher, resigned last week from Philadelphia's Baptist Temple to assume direction of the Chapel of the Four Chaplains, a memorial to the four Army chaplains-two Protestant, one Catholic, one Jewish-who went down with the torpedoed troopship Dorchester in 1943...