Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider what life is like for the Irish who live in the occupied North. Bobby Sands is a case in point--early in his life, Protestant extremists drove his family from its home. Bobby Sands was going to be a garage mechanic, but the Protestants in his shop forced him...
Probably you think the conflict in Ireland is some sort of religious war that has gone on forever. 'They've fought so long they don't remember what they're fighting about.' 'Killing each other in the name of God.' Well, not exactly. It happens that Ireland was the first...
The Protestant work ethic, which sanctified work and turned it into vocation, arrived only a few centuries ago in the formulations of Martin Luther and John Calvin. In that scheme, the worker collaborates with God to do the work of the universe, the great design. One scholar, Leland Ryken of...
> In downtown Shanghai, a standing-room-only congregation of 800 packs the handsome brick Church of Abundant Grace. After a resounding rendition in Chinese of the hymn Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, worshipers listen as Pastor Li Wentsai exhorts them to "abide in Jesus"continually, not just on Sundays. The...
The flaws of the King James and its revisions have inspired a new wave of modern Protestant Bibles that go back to original sources, creating an entirely new translation. Trying to strike a delicate balance between beauty and accuracy, the editors have produced spotty, often controversial results: