Word: protestantize
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Congratulations to TIME [July 26] from Joshua Podro and myself on a splendidly clean scythe sweep or hatchet job [on The Nazarene Gospel Restored]. Your reviewer has kept well within the statutory limits of fair comment . . . But, on the theory that TIME brings all things, we miss your timely congratulations...
Re your review of The Nazarene Gospel Restored by Robert Graves and Joshua Podro: it is the clear duty of both branches of Christianity, Protestant and Catholic . . . to severely rebuke both authors and publisher of this sacrilegious work . . .
As usual, there was no clear agreement on just what form that hope should take. Many churchmen, notably the Americans, emphasized "practical" action here and now. Said the World Presbyterian Alliance meeting at Princeton (where Hromadka spoke): "Strive to break down racial barriers . . . Promote understanding between classes . . . Provide an opportunity...
¶In Germany's Soviet zone, Communist mouthpieces took up the hue and cry against some East German Protestant clergymen who were too outspoken at the recent Kirchentag held by the Evangelical Church in Leipzig.
The Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, President of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, placed the Reformed churches squarely in the center of the ecumenical movement, recalled Calvin's own plans for a Protestant federation: "Ardor for the ideal of Christian unity [is] laid as an inescapable obligation upon...