Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Horton has been a leader in the ecumenical movement of Protestant churches throughout the world. He thus fits the aim of the rejuvenated Divinity School, announced last fall, to build a specifically ecumenical faculty from as many religious traditions, in an effort to combine as many of the mainstreams of...
Among other plans for future expansion, the Divinity Schools plans to create a new field, International Churchmanship, which would represent the growing importance of the movement toward unity among Protestant and Orthodox sects symbolized by the World Council of Churches. In addition, the school also contemplates a Chair of Byzantine...
Freedom v. Freeloading. In their all-out campaign to block new "right to work" laws and repeal existing ones, labor unions are backed by many church leaders, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. The laws' supporters are management groups and Chambers of Commerce eager to attract new industry into their localities...
¶Breakdown of New Yorkers' "religio-cultural background," as reported in a j survey by the Health Insurance Plan of j Greater New York: 47.6% Roman Cath| olic, 26.4% Jewish, 22.8% Protestant, 3.2% other and nonaffiliated. Jewish population is decreasing: between 1935 and j 1952 the proportion of Jewish...
¶ There is too much "noisy religiosity on the public level" in the U.S., said Dean James A. Pike of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York City). "When we put 'In God We Trust' on our postage stamps, open up a meditation room...