Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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* Evangelicals form a conservative minority of about one-third of the 36 million Protestants in "mainline" churches belonging to the National Council of Churches. In addition, 33.5 million are distributed among scores of orthodox Protestant groups outside the N.C.C.
Perhaps partly owing to a shortage of warmth, and even more to a loss of religious authority, the four churches that are the epitome of the cultured Protestant Establishment?United Methodist, United Presbyterian. Episcopal and United Church of Christ (Congregational) ?have suffered a net loss of 2.7 million members...
(5 of 11) Carter's conservative Southern Baptist Convention has alone gained nearly 2 million and is now the nation's largest Protestant body (12.9 million).
Pursuing that goal. Evangelicals have thriving student groups on many college campuses. Former Democratic Senator Harold Hughes is quietly working with prominent men in Washington, D.C.. while other specialists are spreading the Gospel among scantily clad chorines, prep school students and young intellectuals. During the past decade, while the...
Lewis, an Anglican, has always had a following among Roman Catholics. But the major Lewis shrine exists at a collection on British Christian writers (including Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers) at Wheaton College in Illinois, a staunchly Evangelical Protestant school. In Curator Clyde S. Kilby's vault are many unpublished...