Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This classroom dialogue is reported in a new manual for teachers, part of an ambitious experiment in Sunday-school education that is being launched this week by the Protestant Episcopal Church. Instead of aiming to give children some Biblical and theological background for the faith they will later join, the...
Columnist SIMEON STYLITES (Halford E. Luccock), in the Protestant weekly CHRISTIAN CENTURY:
An increasing interest in religion has come to the world in the post-war decade and with it a growing desire 'among Christians to come together, President Pusey told more than 5000 Protestant laymen at a five-denominational communion and breakfast in Boston on Sunday.
Protestant groups have been quarreling and differing among themselves far too long, he declared, and "we have presented a devastatingly unconvincing picture to the rest of the world. Enjoined by the Lord, through the manner of our lives, to show the reality of an engaging household open to all men...
¶ "Presumptuous liberals," according to leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals, are out to break down the barriers between Protestant denominations. The Rev. George L. Ford, executive director of the ultraconservative N.A.E., told the organization's convention in Chicago that unless it is stopped, "the liberal ecumenical movement...