Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He was born (1818) in the ancient archbishopric of Trier. From his ancestry (which included generations of rabbis and Talmudic scholars) he undoubtedly inherited his gift for subtle and untiring disputation. When Karl was six Father Hirschel Marx, a lawyer, took the family to be baptized in the Protestant Church...
Have statistics got anything to do with religion? Not much, concludes Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, writing in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. U.S. Protestantism may not be losing ground numerically, but its religious vitality is slipping...
Revelation. The Protestant reformers changed the position of the prophetic books from the middle of the Old Testament (as they are in the Hebrew Bible) to the end. This, says Author Paterson, was a sound instinct, for "those prophets seem to be standing on the tiptoe of expectation, waiting for...
Commenting on the campaign, the aggressively Protestant Christian Century editorialized this week: "The Knights of Columbus are to be applauded for having 'hired a hall' in the advertising columns and there submitting the claims of their church to the test of the open forum. If Protestantism is wise, it will hasten to subject its faith to the same scrutiny...
Booth left the Methodist ministry because the ragtag-&-bobtail following he drew with his fiery street-corner sermons shocked his respectable brethren. Now the Army considers itself a religious body much like any other Protestant denomination, with an accent on works and service. But the old-fashioned blue-and-red...