Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GIVING has never been easy-as the Magi, those first Christmas givers, discovered when they arrived with offerings fit for a king only to find a babe lying in a stable. Still, in the early centuries following that birth, giving was relatively simple. It meant giving up, a giving away...
Secularization - the historical process by which man increasingly controls the universe, thereby seeming to diminish God's dominion - sounds by definition like a threat to Christianity; in fact, it is a divine gift to man that has its roots in Biblical revelation. Such is the in sight of one...
About this time, Kurt Kiesinger was also making another important decision. Politics in Germany had boiled down to a battle between the Communists and the Nazis, and many Catholic and Protestant leaders saw in the Nazis the only chance to save Germany?and Christianity? from the Red Peril. In 1933?...
Kiesinger feels that the invading Allies may well have saved his life, but the rescue was strictly unceremonious. As a Nazi, Kiesinger was interned in an American compound near Stuttgart, was released after 18 months as a so-called Category IV offender?a willing tool of the Hitler regime. Within...
Impatient at the slow pace of progress in unity, plenty of young Protestant thinkers, including some on the World Council's staff in Geneva, have wondered whether ecumenism is possible within the framework of existing churches. Visser 't Hooft understands the impatience, but remains convinced that to abandon...