Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's citizens love to ask themselves loaded questions-and then let bystanders pick up the pieces. Christians are no exception. One of their favorites is: "What is wrong with the Christian church today?" Put to 100 clergymen and laymen (mostly Protestant) throughout the U.S., this high-explosive question...
In ragged sum, these church critics seemed to feel that the church should shed its parochialism, actually practice brotherhood, instead of merely preaching it, and concern itself with human life rather than with doctrines. Dean John M. Atwood, of St. Lawrence University's Theological School, Canton, N.Y., summed up...
A concerted religious crusade was under way. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish forces last week had a common aim: to get at least one foot inside the forthcoming United Nations Conference in San Francisco. They were determined to let the peacemakers know that the churches want a peace based on human...
If the churches make a dent on San Francisco, it will be because they have studied the problems of peace with unaccustomed realism. Last week John Foster Dulles, spokesman for the Protestant crusaders, summed up their view: "This time it is of the utmost importance that we be realistic. We...
Outsiders sometimes charge that the Protestant Episcopal Church is more snobbish than religious. Last week a few insiders made the same charge. In the Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, 100 Episcopal chaplains who have been working with servicemen complained that almost no group in the armed forces is as lacking...