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Word: protestantism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"That conference was one of the most subtle, insidious, satanic attacks ever made on our economy, the American way of life and certain aspects of our faith. It had every indication of being intended to prepare the mind of the Protestant Church for the near-Communism which the Federal Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Love One Another | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Membership. Church membership figures have always been computed in a way that would make a certified public accountant shudder: different denominations keep their records in different ways, and few churches agree on just who should be counted a church member. Listing only those 13 years or older, the overall muni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sorry Figures | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Biggest numerical gain between 1926 and 1941-42 was scored by the largest single sect,* the Roman Catholics, with 4.3 million. But by percentages, Roman Catholicism is doing no better than the general trend: during the same period, "the 43 larger Protestant denominations showed a combined rate of growth of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sorry Figures | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

"A rather high proportion of clergymen," says the report, "have never had any special training for their jobs. . . . According to a study in 1926 of the education of 105,000 clergymen in the Roman Catholic Church, 17 white Protestant denominations and in three Negro bodies, the typical Roman Catholic clergyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sorry Figures | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Sören Kierkegaard, a lonely, God-hungry Dane, waged his revolution against the excessive rationalism of the mechanistic 19th Century in which he lived. Thus his Christianity did not try to be "objective," but dealt with the universe in terms of man's own suffering, fearing, loving and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christians in Revolt | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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