Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside the neo-Byzantine cathedral, more than 5,000 people jammed Victoria Street. Typically, the Pope worked the barricades, reserving his warmest enthusiasm for children. Most onlookers were Catholics-England is only 10% Catholic-but Protestant Housewife Val Weatherbee remarked: "A man of peace in a land of war." Added...
Yet, throughout the week, Graham seemed oblivious to the precarious role of religion in a country that endorses scientific atheism and outlaws public evangelism. It is a country where only the officially sanctioned Russian Orthodox Church is permitted to exist in relative peace, where Protestant groups are tolerated only if...
Democratic capitalism embodies three elements: a free-market economy, a political system based on individual rights, and a moral pluralism that respects different cultural goals and beliefs. Such social philosophers as Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) and Daniel Bell (The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism) have...
In the 20th century, socialism as a visionary ideal has appealed to such diverse religious thinkers as Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich and the Catholic clergy who advocate a quasi-Marxist "liberation theology" in Latin America. "Any serious Christian must be a socialist," Tillich once said. Yet those who are hostile...
DIED. W. Cameron Townsend, 85, pioneering Protestant missionary who brought the Bible to primitive groups by devising a written form of their language and then teaching them to read it; of leukemia complications; in Lancaster, S.C. A college dropout, Townsend found his calling in Guatemala in 1917 when he tried...