Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of sheer nose-counting, the Protestant churches still show a slight percentage gain over population increase. But, says Churchman Morrison, "numerical growth is not the only criterion. . . . We must look also at the whole cultural, political, and economic scene within which Protestantism lives. Our question will then be: Is Protestantism growing in influence and spiritual power faster than these forces and interests external to itself...
To low churchmen, Bishop Manning seems only a split hair's breadth this side of Rome. He campaigned to change (he might say "restore") the Church's name from Protestant Episcopal to "Catholic & Apostolic," drew many an ecclesiastical brickbat for declaring in 1930: "The conception of the ministry...
Protestant leaders cried: "No Popery!" Protestant opposition to Catholic secular power and influence was growing.
Three weeks ago Princeton Theological Seminary's John A. Mackay spoke his concern over Catholic clericalism and its "vilification" of Protestant leaders (TIME, March 25). Last week New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches, chose the Catholic stronghold of Boston...
Communist Parallel. New York's Oxnam was not the only Protestant leader to keelhaul Catholicism. In London last week, Professor A. Victor Murray, president of England's Congregational Cheshunt College, said: "Rome . . . believes itself to be the perfect society. . . . Anything that furthers its interests, political or social, as...