Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Catholic Church relies principally on tradition and takes it for granted that children of Catholic parents will be good Catholics. Protestant evangelists are more aggressive; they go out and try to reach people who have lost contact with their church." The speaker was Buenos Aires' Methodist Bishop Sante...
The Anglicans and Episcopalians, like most Protestant groups, do not share the Roman Catholic disapproval of birth control; contraception, they have long held, is permissible for both family planning and reasons of health. But the Anglican Communion's five-week Lambeth conference of bishops just concluded went a liberal...
Short of scholars of their own denomination, many seminaries have hired teachers from other church groups-often under the guise of ecumenic broadmindedness. Partly as a result, says Gill, U.S. Protestant theology today "looks like a witches' brew." Part of his new task, he clearly feels, will be to...
The 15 contestants in Jerusalem made up an intriguingly mixed company. They included chipper Myrtle Davis, 49, Southern Baptist schoolteacher from Buford, Ga., who won the Bible quiz on the $64,000 Challenge; tiny Irene Santos, 39, a Seventh-day Adventist schoolteacher from Brazil; tall Roman Catholic Paul Guillamier, 19...
After a stretch in the navy and in Parliament (he cozened the Scottish voters by dancing Highland reels and, on one occasion, importing 15 beautiful maidens of the Clan Macleod for a party), truculent Lord George Gordon became president of the Protestant Association. Gordon was a furious enemy of the...