Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where is the exciting, responsible Protestant scholarship in our country? Is it not the American atmosphere which denies the worth of it rather than merely American Catholics? Disrespect for intellectual values belongs, alas, to all Americans, most especially to those bigoted Protestants who, knowing not of what they speak, nevertheless...
At a "mass rally" at the Leipzig stadium (last filled to its 100,000 capacity at a Protestant church day in 1954), Khrushchev was soaked by a drenching rain that broke as he entered the arena. "This is not the welcome we had planned for the glorious Soviet leader," wailed...
Spiritual Semites. Pope Pius XI once referred to Catholics as "spiritual Semites". "The stronger his faith and the more profound his appreciation of it," says Jesuit Davis, "the more 'Semitic' a Catholic realizes himself to be. For he comes to know how intimately his roots are laced with...
In the sunlit Georgian harmony of Yale Divinity School, the 90-member Central Committee of the World Council of Churches began its tenth annual meeting last week, the first major World Council meeting in the U.S. since 1954. In attendance: 131 delegates, consultants and guests from 21 nations representing 170...
The Archbishop of Canterbury thought the report "completely masterly." But Bishop George K. A. Bell of Chicester, England led a group of delegates who thought it wishy-washy. West Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hannover sounded off against "trying to be friends with everybody." Also for...