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Word: protestantize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Ten Million Protestants | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishops on Birth Control | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prickly Presbyterian | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Big Bible Battle | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Zion's Bagpiper | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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