Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three lawyers carefully studied the plan and found it "entirely within the law." Two theologians, five bishops and three religious superiors were consulted about it from the standpoint of morality and Christian ethics. Finally, with only one dissenting vote, the plan was approved by the 68-member board of the...
"Many scientists have become a lot less positive about the prerogatives of science and the scientific method," said Dr. Brobeck (who classifies himself as an "evangelical Protestant like Billy Graham"). "More and more we hear talk about the limitations of science. But science is not the only way to get...
¶ After a three-day meeting in Columbus, Ohio, 30 leaders from the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church announced that the two denominations would join June 25, 1957. Name of the new church: the United Church of Christ. With a membership of more than 2,000...
¶ Three months after Billy Graham packed Madison Square Garden in a one-night stand, the board of directors of Manhattan's Protestant Council voted to invite Billy to hold a first full-scale "crusade" in New York City in September 1956. Graham, in Switzerland to conduct crusades in...
¶The Protestant Episcopal Church has a relatively liberal attitude toward integration. The North Georgia Convention recently declared that "segregation on the basis of race alone is inconsistent with the principles of the Christian religion." In Atlanta, while services are segregated, white and Negro children are confirmed together, and whites...