Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"There are some happy signs of a return to a more careful protection of human liberties." So said the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (30 denominations, Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, with more than 35 million members). The council's third general assembly, which convened in...
Church building is booming, and membership is soaring. But, warned the report: "Our crime rate appears to rise alongside our membership increase . . . We can all remember when the major challenge to the tavern came from the Protestant churches. Today the challenge is from television."
Religious Abyss. But what riled old Konrad Adenauer most was an implication of religious intolerance. The Catholic Chancellor almost singlehanded jammed reparations for Israel through his Cabinet; he works constantly to preserve a careful Catholic-Protestant balance in the government. Last week, when Hessian and Bavarian Catholic bishops urged their...
Blank says proudly: "I am working class." But last week Germany's Socialist Party and the powerful West German Trade Unions Federation would have none of Blank or his army. Hundreds of Protestant ministers joined in petitions against rearmament.
In 1926 Dr. Coffin became president of Union Theological Seminary. "Uncle Harry," as his students called him, campaigned for the great liberal causes that are safe and almost old-hat today, but which then still suggested the revolutionary's bonnet: internationalism, equality among the races, unity among Protestant sects...