Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the country last week began the fifth Religion in American Life campaign, annual effort of U.S. laymen (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish) to encourage church attendance through advertising in the press, over the air, and on billboards and car cards. This year's slogan: "Light their life with Faith; bring...
Servetus' trouble was his instinctive knack for making himself a one-man minority. As Historian Bainton concludes: "Servetus could not agree altogether with anybody." His minority stand on medicine was scientifically useful, and, as an independent astrologer, he gained the confidence of the court of Francis I. But his...
Servetus started his career on the Catholic side of the fence, as a promising scholar-assistant to the confessor of Emperor Charles V. By 19, however, his theological studies had already made him a Protestant, and in 1530 he fled to the Reformation strongholds of Basel, and later, Strasbourg. He...
His theology was so irritating because it was highly personal and opposed to the formal systems of any churches. Although he attacked the Papacy, he also ripped into cherished new Protestant doctrines such as Calvin's predestination and Luther's "justification by faith alone." By the time Servetus...
The Rt. Reverend Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States and a fellow of the Yale Corporation, will be Public Orator for the ceremony, He will present Pusey to Griswold.