Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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We of the Western world are deeply indebted to you for your dramatic account [May 20] of Cardinal Wyszynski. It tells beautifully, in vivid realism, the story of a noble primate who is an astute statesman and diplomat as well as a great religious leader. I speak as a Protestant...
Those vivid pictures and your map of Middle Africa "bring homesickness" (vi koka ongeva) to one just back from Africa. Your writer, however, brushes off Christianity as "Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British East Africa, isolated settlements of other Protestant religions elsewhere. Numerically, Christian conversions are few." A conservative...
...recent decades there has been a new, strong trend toward really heavy-duty thinking about the nature of God and man. Probably the deepest Protestant thought on these matters now goes on in the brain of Paul Tillich, an existentialist-minded theologian who is trying to do for Protestantism what Thomas Aquinas did for Roman Catholicism in the 13th century. For a report on the latest installment of Tillich's massive work, see RELIGION, The New Being...
What is sin? Until relatively recently, American Protestant thought might be expected to give a simple and traditional answer to that question: sin, staining all men since the Fall, is the willful disobedience of God's law. After the theological battle between fundamentalism and liberalism, that answer was no...
Paul Tillich, 70, University Professor at Harvard,* and now the most discussed Protestant theologian in the U.S., is saying something similar, with an even stronger psychological and existentialist accent. Tillich's word for Original Sin is estrangement-man's estrangement "from the ground of his being, from other...