Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Not surprisingly, Bellow himself is the literal heir to two cultures. He was born in a suburb of Montreal in 1915, the fourth and last child of Russian Jews who had just emigrated from St. Petersburg. His father, an educated man, became a small-time trader and, in Bellow'...
The ethnics are perhaps most dissatisfied with the Democratic Party for its position on abortion. While Ford supports a constitutional amendment to allow the states to outlaw abortion. Carter does not, though he personally is against abortion. Moreover, Carter is a Southern Baptist, and ethnics view that denomination suspiciously because...
Grand Rapids is the home of several colleges, including Calvin College, mecca of Christian Reformed scholarship. There are almost more churches than anyone can count (479 Protestant, 42 Catholic and two synagogues). One stanza of a song glorifying Grand Rapids rhapsodizes:
There are gaps in Johnson's book, some obviously by design. He disdains to rerun the story of Henry VIII's war with the papacy over his divorce, assuming that most English-speaking readers know it already. At other times, though, particularly in his discussion of more recent...
America's Episcopal Church has long managed to be "all things to all men"-and women. Internally, it has accommodated its various factions with a reasonable degree of harmony. Externally, it has functioned as an ecumenical bridge between Protestantism and Catholicism because it contains elements of each. Those days may be over. At the church's 13-day General Convention, which ended in Minneapolis last week, the Protestant side took firm control of the church, and both internal and external relationships will never be the same...