Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their leader, who makes his cathedral headquarters in the Marienkirche, is one of the world's great churchmen: Friedrich Karl Otto Dibelius, 72, bishop of the Berlin-Brandenburg diocese and, as head of the united German Evangelical Church, the primate of all German Protestants. Jailed by the Nazis and...
Protestant & Catholic. There were two Germanys in the world long before the Allies of 1945 divided the country into an Eastern zone and a Western. The culture of each was built and nurtured on religious traditions. The smaller of the Germanys, in the Rhineland and Bavaria, was and is largely...
The larger of the two Germanys occupies the north and east, lies astride the Iron Curtain barrier. It is Protestant and Prussian, a culture half bourgeois and half aristocratic, a nation that looks East as well as West. This is the nationalist Germany hewn out by Martin Luther in the...
Otto Dibelius is a classic product of this Protestant Germany, and a witness to its unique spiritual and political character. "Every country," he is fond of saying, "has the religion it deserves. Every religion has the people who suit it."
Three other major factors with which the Protestant African missions will have to deal, says Dr. Van Dusen, are: 1) "the whirlwind of social, economic and political dislocations which are sweeping from the west coast eastward and southward"; 2) the multiplying activities of governments in fields previously dominated by the...