Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At Repentance Day services, pastors underlined the guilt of the German Protestant church itself. Said Dachau's No. 1 ex-prisoner, famous Pastor Martin Niemöller:
"The church did not win, it failed, and is still failing because it maintains that though the world all around it is being judged, the church is above criticism. We Protestants must repent, we did badly. There were only 45 Protestant pastors in Dachau concentration camp as opposed to 450...
Many a thoughtful Protestant will agree with John Raleigh Mott, octogenarian Y.M.C.A. leader, that "entirely too many resolutions are being passed by churches [and] denominational bodies." The grand old man of foreign missions is quoted in the Protestant Voice: "This is a colossal escape mechanism. I have on file now...
Saint Augustine, "the Saint of the Intellect," is enthroned among the saints as "the first great teacher of rational thought." His Doctrina Christiana, "the earliest pedagogical textbook of the Western world," supplied "the foundation on which the first European universities were built." From his teachings arise the famed Protestant tenets...
* In the years 1943 and 1944, combined Protestant denominations gained 4,059,127 members, according to the Yearbook of American Churches (1945), published biennially by the Federal Council of Churches.