Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preacher Ockenga, 45, has not been content with merely shoring up Park Street's Protestant fundamentalism against Boston's Roman Catholics and Harvard's intellectuals. He is also part-time president of a theological school in California, a founder and the first president of the
2. The University will be endorsing Protestant Christianity. The Chaplain will obviously work in close cooperation with the Roman Catholic chaplain, and the Jewish rabbi as is now done at Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. As a matter of fact, the majority of affiliated students are Protestants.
Editor Hutchinson sees another reason for the decline of Protestant influence in "the failure of certain church-sponsored reforms to produce the social miracles promised. This has been the period, it must be remembered, of the rise and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment. Even women's rights, secured largely...
The Evil I Do. A second trend of the 20th Century has been toward greater formality in Protestant worship. " 'Churchmanship' is no longer a monopoly of Episcopalians and Lutherans. Stately liturgy has grown commonplace in communions which, five decades ago, were vigorous in their opposition to anything which...
The word that issues from that pulpit has changed drastically, too. Except in the South, evangelical fervor is on the discard in most of the "leading" Protestant denominations. Methodist Hutchinson is not happy about what has replaced it: "A kind of preaching which, at its best, is in direct descent...