Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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His new wife also took charge of the chaotic household finances and began checking on the baron's various bills, some of which he had accepted without verifying. She suspected that neighboring tradesmen had been cheating the unwary baron. Her accusations met with indignation among the townspeople, who had...
...finding what they seek in liberal churches or synagogues. Since the mid-1960s, mainstream Protestantism particularly has slipped in numbers. Together with liberal forms of Catholicism and Judaism, the progressive Protestant denominations are hoist with their own petard. Their very creedal flexibility precludes the certitude that attracts converts. In fact, believes California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, Christianity may be losing its power to grip the imagination. "We have become imageless," he says. "We have no symbols like Moses' passage through the Red Sea. We are empty people. The elements of mystery in the church have been...
Many Americans are finding a measure of transcendence in the growing ranks of the doctrinally conservative Protestant churches, some of them evangelical, some of them frankly fundamentalist. The most impressive example of growth is the Southern Baptist Convention, which has maintained a staunchly biblical faith. Young people of all faiths...
In another vein, many spiritual pilgrims are returning to an appreciation of mysticism. More Jews today-especially the young-are delving into the mysteries of Hasidism, and Christians are re-examining their own great mystics: Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila and Sören...
Reflecting some of the same communal spirit as Pentecostalism is the widespread "small-group movement," which concentrates on Bible and prayer meetings in both Catholic and Protestant homes. These small groups, and other new religious patterns, were discussed at an ecumenical conference on the future of U.S. religion held in...