Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religion-in-General. In the U.S., says Marty, these are "post-Protestant times." The particularism that once typified American church life has given way to what he calls "religion-in-general." The social and technological environment of the 20th century has acted "as a sort of cosmic Slenderella to polish...
...concept of a 'Protestant' America is as obsolete as the side-wheel showboat, the cigar-store Indian or the Fourth of July oration. We all think of these things as part of 'our' culture-but where do we go to find them?" Marty suggests that Protestantism is insecure because it senses itself to be a minority (although statistically it is not), while Roman Catholicism has assumed a "quasi-majority responsibility" and Judaism continues its "quest for definition." All three are confused in "the presence of the secular, natural, national humanistic religion...
Hope. Critic Marty sees hope in the local parish, with its possibilities of maintaining the values of personality against mass society. "If the parish can be relieved of many pressures which it cannot sustain, it offers the most hopeful front for taking post-Protestant America and helping shape it as...
Protestant preachers in Italy have their work cut out for them. The Italian constitution of 1948 gives them the green light: "All persons have the right freely to profess their own religious faith in any individual or collective form, to proselytize on its behalf and to perform in private and...
Died. Charles Kendall Gilbert, 80, onetime (1947-50) Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York; after long illness; in Charlemont, Mass.