Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was the Church's pragmatic departure from the orthodoxy of Paul and Augustine that gave the leaders of the Protestant Reformation their main theological ammunition against Rome. This Protestant return to Augustinianism, writes Anglican Hardman, led Rome to make "a verbal compromise which suggested the retention of the...
Then came a surprise. Said 60-year-old General Lee, with stern modesty: "I hope to give my abilities, such as they are, to the church of which I am a member." Correspondents knew that General Lee, an Episcopalian, kept a Bible on his desk and another in his briefcase...
...tendency." If he felt like a pagan, he still acted like a Protestant; he carried a pocket Bible everywhere with him. But he was always seesawing between the assurances of prayer and the doubts of spiritual confusion. Twenty-one years later, he confided to his journal: "Catholicism is inadmissible. Protestantism is intolerable. And I feel profoundly Christian. . . . From day to day I put off and carry a little farther into the future my prayer: may the time come when my soul, at last liberated, will be concerned only with...
I grew up in the school of daily journalism before it was the fashion to qualify names used in news stories with derogatory designations. In your piece on the recent visit of a group of Protestant clergymen to Yugoslavia [TIME, Aug. 25], you designated me as "anti-Roman Catholic editor...
On the day that Manduzio was able to leave his bed, a Protestant preacher happened to be addressing a meeting in San Nicandro's square. As the preacher attacked the dogmas of Catholicism, Donato suddenly lifted one of the two sticks on which he was leaning, and shouted: "You...