Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These lines from America the Beautiful were doubtless sung at many a Protestant service over the July 4 weekend, along with the verses of another warhorse, the Battle Hymn of the Republic ("Mine eyes have seen the glory . . ."). But at least one group of church officials has deemed these traditional...
The outcome dealt a humiliating blow to the already wobbly ruling coalition headed by Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald, who had personally led the campaign in favor of divorce. It also sealed the country's own marriage to the Roman Catholic Church and set back hopes of a closer alliance with...
AS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was to Max Weber's theory of the Protestant work ethic, George Putnam--and dozens of his good friends and relatives--could have been to a disquisition on Old Money in Boston and its influence at Harvard. But instead, we get a soft, silly chapter that does...
Lady Jane, her first film, is no formula flick, but an ambitious costume melodrama about the violent period after the deaths of Henry VIII (in 1547) and, six years later, his sickly young son Edward VI. Nevertheless--castles, moats, 16th century costumes and all--the film sinks at its worst...
Carter's punishment is but the latest development in a 5 1/2-year litigation that could become a major constitutional test case on the limits of mixing religion and politics. Protestant and Jewish groups that disagree with Catholicism on abortion are deeply concerned about the case's religious- liberty implications. The...