Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seminarians' summer jobs reflected a trend that is belatedly gathering steam in U.S. Protestantism. Roman Catholic leaders have long made the working man a special concern; Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) was well known for his concern for the workers' cause. Except in mission work, most of the Protestant denominations have concentrated on the tending of middle-class flocks...
Rats & Dear Old Ladies. Many of the students felt that big-city Protestant churches were overdue for a change of attitude. "Fear of new groups seems to be the handicap to church expansion in some cases," said Paul Mehl, 25, of Union Theological Seminary. "Workingmen don't flock to...
Into the crossfire of controversy over Communism among the U.S. clergy jumped Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr this week. "It must be affirmed that there have never been many explicit Stalinists in the churches," Niebuhr writes in the Christian Century, "and today their number is ... insignificant . . . Nevertheless, there are a few...
Niebuhr condemns the "hysterical labors of the vigilantes" and believes that "the matter is beyond the competence or interest of a congressional investigation committee." But "while we deal with these issues among ourselves," he feels it should be admitted that there has been "a very considerable Marxist dogmatism in the...
Though Kinsey now lists all 14 members of the institute staff as co-authors of "the female volume," the key men around him are three: Psychologist Wardell B. Pomeroy, 39, and Statistician Clyde E. Martin, 35 (who were credited as co-authors of the male volume), and Anthropologist Paul H...