Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the judgment of many biblical scholars, especially mainstream Protestants in the U.S. and Europe, a number of these scriptural issues have long been resolved. But others are still being examined. Roman Catholics especially, who contributed little to biblical research for centuries after the Reformation, are enthusiastically at work, encouraged...
However pragmatic the goal, today's calls for fasting from churchmen often pointedly recall the historic religious practice, which Eastern Orthodox Christians still widely observe and Roman Catholics have only recently moved away from. The new fasts, for example, have been called by many churchmen, both Catholic and Protestant...
When the Communists took over in 1949, there were roughly 4 million Roman Catholics and Protestant Christians in China, 13,000 missionaries, and a widespread Christian influence in schools and universities. In a 1950 speech, Premier Chou En-lai promised religious freedom, and the country's 1954 constitution guaranteed...
RELIGION. Some Protestant denominations-including the two largest, the Southern Baptist Convention and the United Methodist Church-are increasing their collections a shade faster than inflation cheapens the value of the dollars put in plates. But over all, the National Council of Churches reported in mid-November, the income of...
The troubling question is what all these curbs on traditional British freedoms will do to cure the underlying causes of the problem. In Belfast, the killing goes on, with eleven murders recently committed within the space of just five days. There seems to be little chance that the proposed constitutional...