Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At his pink stucco home just north of Manhattan, famed Protestant Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, longtime (1930-46) pastor of Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said...
A new era of good feeling between Protestants and Roman Catholics in the U.S. was sighted last week by one of the nation's top Catholic theologians. The Rev. Gustave A. Weigel of Maryland's Jesuit Woodstock College. School of Sacred Theology, told the 48th annual convention of...
...Protestant interest, said Father Weigel, is the result of three factors: "numerical increase of Catholics (see below), the loss of Protestant inviolability, and the weakening hold of the Protestant churches on their members." Together these factors have "produced anxiety in Protestantism" and "anxiety engendered humility...
The ecumenical movement toward unity among the Protestant denominations, added Theologian Weigel. "is vital and effective, one of the best efforts the Protestant churches have ever made. The hope of a united church necessarily makes the Protestant look at Catholicism and look at it more sympathetically than he did in...
For their part. Catholics have a "growing sense of security" and are "no longer afraid of the American Protestant." Catholics have also "expanded intellectually," said Jesuit Weigel, "even though pure intellectualism is not yet a popular Catholic vocation. Ancient bogies and the ghosts of former times have been destroyed. The...