Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For several years now Americans have been hearing a somber new slogan: "Death with dignity." Meaning: the American way of death has become too technological, often condemning a patient to a lingering and painful end in which he is kept artificially alive by a maze of tubes and life-support...
> With more than 12 million members, the Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination, but hardly its most egalitarian.
One vital problem that Union will have to solve is whether and how to restore the discipline of traditional studies. Students in the '60s were more interested in activist applications of theology, but now, Paul Lehmann observes, "they are beginning to insist on serious attention to tradition as a...
"We've blown ourselves all the way back to the time of the Troubles, the period from 1912 to 1920. We're in a state of total flux. The sorcerer's apprentice started the water flowing, and now we are all going to be swept along with...
According to their older sister Clare, 26, the girls showed little active interest in politics until 1968, when they joined the civil rights movement, which was dedicated to securing equal voting rights for Northern Ireland's Catholic minority. The turning point in the Prices' conversion to hard-line...