Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quebec's claim to a distinct identity has for centuries made it Canada's problem child. Novelist MacLennan described the historical relationship between French-and English-speaking Canadians as "the two solitudes." Roman Catholic, French-speaking, stamped by a different culture and tradition, the mostly rural Quebecois lived a separate...
Who are the most influential personalities in U.S. religion? The Protestant weekly Christian Century asked 35 experts in the religious and secular press and found the "clear winner" to be Evangelist Billy Graham. Other members of the top ten in order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty...
The proposal is certain to produce a fire storm of argument among the not-so-United Presbyterians across the country. The final decision will rest with the church's annual General Assembly scheduled for May 16-24 in San Diego. What happens there is likely to influence the separate...
Joan the Maid is Shaw in yet another transparent disguise. It is not difficult to imagine him in medieval armor wielding a righteous sword against the dragons of this world. Scene by scene, Saint Joan is rather like an extended series of lectures, a kind of droning college seminar labeled...
Ironically, the character of Joan as saint captivated Shaw less than it has the public. He was more interested in Joan the soldier as an embodiment of France, and most interested of all in Joan the revolutionary sounding the first, heady, rebel call to arms of insurrectionary mass man. Using...