Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To the Gettysburg White House went a petition urging the release of the 16 second-string U.S. Communists now behind bars for Smith Act violations. The signers: Eleanor Roosevelt, Socialist Party Patriarch Norman Thomas, News Commentator Elmer Davis, plus 43 other citizens, about half of them Protestant divines. A "Christmas...
Under his editorial rule, the Century has continued its liberal (religious and political) policies for disarmament and against "the fear psychosis" of McCarthyism. The Century has never hesitated to criticize Protestants (particularly for shallowness. overoptimism or bureaucracy), but it also bears down hard on some aspects of Catholicism. Sample: "The...
Inspired by this incident, Roman Catholic Author Keyes (a convert from Congregationalism in 1939) sent out a Christmas story to her friends titled Our Lord Had a Grandmother, Too. This warm, folksy meditation on the life of St. Anne, later reprinted in magazines, brought an avalanche of correspondence from Grandmother...
"With Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, and Santayana stands a man whom future generations probably will pronounce no whit their inferior..."; "like Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Schleicrmacher, he gathers up the strands of all that is best in secular thought, and unites them with the truths of God's self-disclosure"; "he...
Most Protestant theologians, for example, are not out-and-out existentialists. Most have not actively indulged in politics on behalf of socialist causes. And most will not nonchalantly remark, when asked about such unusual interests: "Oh yes, I've always been quite unorthodox."