Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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If some Protestant clergymen were as zealous playing bingo as they are fostering birth control, this country would be in a much healthier moral state.
¶Church membership figures released by the National Council of Churches for the period 1929-52 show a membership growth for the Roman Catholic Church of 50.7%, and for 18 large Protestant denominations of 42.7%.
...some Protestant leaflets in his morning's mail and went off like a cobalt bomb. Such literature, he wrote in the Falangist daily Arriba, is "simply an insult. This is not a social and political outrage but something even more repulsive-a lack of consideration." Nowadays, he wrote, Protestantism is not even a faith, "not a positive doctrine but a negative one. It is not an attempt at moral, spiritual or religious reform, nor an individualist explanation of the Gospel. Today Protestantism has lost all doctrinal basis and has argued itself into radical irrationalism...
...respect - largely through the Protestant Reformation, says Protestant Jung -that to millions its symbols now mean nothing. For this reason, says Jung, Roman Catholicism is generally more effective today than other churches, and he rarely finds Catholics in need of individuation. Says Jung: "[Catholicism] is a full-fledged religion. Protestantism is not. Religions consist of a doctrine and a rite. The ritual does not exist in Protestantism : it has only one leg to stand on - justification through faith alone. The Catholic Church has the rite too, with all its magic effects." Jung himself has not been to church for years...
CONSTANCE, by Hervé Bazln (216 pp.; Crown; $3). French Author Bazin's novels (Viper in the Fist, Head Against the Walls) are as alive, cynical and human as the Paris Flea Market, but like that fascinating catchall, they end by suggesting that the props of life, and finally...