Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The mainstream churches have tried in various ways to adapt themselves to a secular age. The Roman Catholic Church made its liturgy accessible in the vernacular and turned increasingly from saving souls to saving society. The major Protestant denominations also increasingly emphasized social activism and tried to dilute dogma to...
"I write to protest...the unseemly arrogance ofHarvard's fundamentalist Protestant and Catholicyahoos," Kilson wrote. "To protest their cheekyAmerican yahoo pretense to speak in behalf ofChristian humanistic decency and Christiancharity."
Paglia will take next fall off from her academic and speechifying schedule to get the second volume of Personae into shape. The book promises to be a whopper, the author's thoughts on a lifetime of blustery enthusiasm for popular culture. The sport section, for instance, will deal with baseball...
Virginal Conception. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke state that Mary was a virgin and that Jesus was conceived miraculously without a human father. This belief is also included in the ancient creeds, and traditional Christians insist upon it. Some liberal Catholic scholars, however, increasingly follow liberal Protestant thinkers and...
In Northern Ireland the activities of the I.R.A. and Protestant extremists have been more lethal, taking 89 lives this year. But as a government spokesman explained, "It doesn't make news to bomb in Northern Ireland. Fire bombs in London at Christmas cause lots of publicity."