Word: protestantism
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...pledging obedience to God. Another key change occurs in a dramatic representation showing a polytheistic Elohim dispatching Jehovah and Michael to create the world. The scene in which Satan pays a Protestant preacher to lure Mormons from their faith is out, perhaps because it offended converts from Protestantism. (The Latter-Day Saints still hold theirs to be the only authentic form of Christianity...
Though the 1952 project was a purely Protestant effort, the New R.S.V. team of translators (all unpaid) included five Roman Catholics, a Greek Orthodox and a Jew. Some editions will print only the 39 Old Testament books recognized by Protestantism and Judaism, while others will include additional books that Catholicism and Orthodoxy regard as Scripture. In time, a Catholic edition of the New R.S.V. is expected...
Some 10 million Christians remain in the Mideast. But for how long? According to Gabriel Habib, general secretary of the Cyprus-based Middle East Council of Churches, "Fear, human suffering and hopelessness" have caused so many Christians to emigrate that there is deep concern about the "continuity of the Christian...
Such cases -- and others abound -- raise anew an issue that many hoped John F. Kennedy had laid to rest with his famous speech to Houston's Protestant ministers in 1960. His candidacy had disinterred the old charge that a Catholic could not be trusted with the nation's highest office...
But they do not. Fitzsimmons acknowledges that the legacies Harvard admits are predominantly white, affluent Northeasterners, many of whom come from elite prep schools. After all, the parents of most legacies went to Harvard sometime between 1945 and 1969, when Harvard was largely a white Protestant upper-class bastion.