Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The quest for an understanding of miracles is by no means confined to Catholic pilgrims or Protestant Fundamentalists or New Age stargazers. Author Dan Wakefield, a lapsed Presbyterian turned Unitarian, sometime TV scriptwriter and now itinerant theological investigator, has just finished a book, Expect a Miracle (to be published by...
Even as the faithful flock to seminars and healing services, the Protestant and Catholic hierarchies treat the subject of miracles with great care. For the minister trying to guide parishioners through the eddies of faith and reason, such stories pose a particular challenge. In many churches, the clergy distrust the...
"I don't think the Bible is literally true," says Bishop John Spong of the Episcopal diocese of Newark, New Jersey, answering a question scholars have tugged at for the past 200 years. Spong, who is invariably described as the enfant terrible of liberal Protestant theology, writes books with such...
The confusions it could impose on you if you were young, fresh from an upcountry village and suddenly exposed to the subversive stimulations of Trinity College, Dublin, are the subject of the ingratiating, clearheaded, coming-of-age comedy that director Pat O'Connor and writer Andrew Davies have fashioned from...
Things only heat up in the second half, when Nan's calculated attempt to win the hand and fortune of a local Protestant aristocrat goes awry, starting a chain of events that ultimately jeopardizes Benny and Jack's ralationship. At the same time, the death of Benny's father gives...