Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A generation ago, mainstream Protestant churches began clustering their national agencies in New York City. With such institutions as the U.N. and the National Council of Churches already in place, Manhattan seemed the ideal base for forward-looking church leaders. Now, for various reasons, four major denominations are simultaneously pondering...
Various cities are already lobbying to land the potential New York refugees. No one is doing so more actively than the persuasive mayor of Indianapolis, William Hudnut III, a Presbyterian clergyman who helped engineer the nighttime raid of Baltimore's Colts last year. His city is already home to the...
But More was not always a man of reason. As he wrote on, he devoted himself, in Marius' phrase, to building "a wall of pages" to defend his faith in works like A Dialogue Concerning Heresies. He loathed the emerging Luther so profoundly that his theological arguments collapsed into...
Many Protestant denominations now admit women to the ministry. But the English decision to move in the same direction will have broad influence within the Anglican Communion, which has something of a patchwork priesthood. Some bishops refuse to recognize women ordained by others, and some branches, including England for the...
The Republican surge was so all embracing as to make almost superfluous the elaborate demographic analyses conducted by political experts. Mondale won an overwhelming percentage of blacks, and thinner majorities among Jewish voters, union households and those earning less than $10,000 a year. Period. Reagan took everything else, sweeping...