Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since God has ordained marriage, wrote Martin Luther, it is good for a priest to take a wife. But the founder of Protestantism, who did not marry until he was 41, might be surprised at the latest trend among U.S. Protestant ministers-marriage while still in seminary. Married students in leading seminaries rose from 15% in 1935 to 36% in 1955 to 60% last year...
Strictly for Whispering. The most obvious objection, says the liberal Protestant weekly, is economic. Seminaries find themselves spending money on quarters for married students that might otherwise go to maintenance or faculty improvement. The expense of "such massive swaddling" drove "the distinguished and dignified president of one of our proudest...
The Corporation's decision to open Memorial Church to private services of non-Protestant religions is a welcome one. While not so significant as the 1886 decree ending compulsory chapel, this latest addition to religious policy reaffirms the University's liberal tradition.
An Informer, Too. Irish-American Author Roth, a 33-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran who also served three years with the Irish army, writes with the kind of detachment that is unwelcome in partisan and partitioned Ireland. He puts his novel in one of Northern Ireland's "lost...
A church is not a cafeteria in which all religions may be served to all comers. Any church is some church. Whether it was proper for the memorial to the Harvard dead of all faiths to have been given the form of a Protestant church is not now the issue...