Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt that Democratic professionals would be very happy if Justice Douglas assented. He had the right specifications: he is a Protestant and geographically correct (home state: Washington); most important, he would carry New Dealish weight in the big cities of the East and Midwest.
Italy and France this winter, ably explained the situation: "Comrades, you must learn to criticize more and be criticized more. ... I confess that we committed a sin of naivete." The sin was that the Italian Communist Party had Sacrificed effectiveness for size. It was the world's largest outside...
In a meticulous "manifesto" the new group warned the U.S. against a certain "powerful church" which "has committed itself in authoritative declarations and by positive acts to a policy plainly subversive of religious liberty as guaranteed by the Constitution." But, announced the group carefully: "As Protestants we can be called...
Like most apprentice painters of the period, Bruegel had begun by making a trip to Italy to learn how Madonnas were done. The experience left his Protestant nature cold; he preferred the brawling uncertainties of the North, and the moralizing surrealism of his Flemish forerunner, Hieronymus Bosch (TIME, Sept. 15...
...Fathers of Protestantism? For a series of lectures (at Jewish Theological Seminary of America) on "Classics of Western Religion," Canada-born Church Historian John Thomas McNeill had to choose carefully from Protestant history. The McNeill lectures, now expanded and published under the title Books of Faith & Power (Harper; $2), may stimulate many a layman to re-examine the heritage of his faith. McNeill's six Fathers...