Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yet in the 20th century no Protestant group has been more successful. In the U.S. today, the 18.4 million Baptists form the country's largest, fastest-growing Protestant denomination. And in all the U.S., no minister of his church is more widely respected than Richmond's Theodore Floyd...
But the fact also remains that today's average Mississippi Negro has found the last remaining way to beat Twentieth Century Responsibility. The old Protestant Ethic has passed him by. Even considering his economic position he pays little taxes (92 percent of West Point's taxes are paid by the...
Thanks to TIME, Oct. 31 for quoting from the Christian Century article on Protestant paranoia. I wasn't aware that there was at this time a renaissance of Reformation rancor. I thought that Protestantism, after all these years, had crystallized into something more than a negation. The pity is that we haven't learned to disagree without being disagreeable...
...have good reason to get upset. They are faced with a steady and alarming rise in Roman Catholic membership and power in the U.S. Attacking Catholicism is hardly a solution. Instead, Protestant churchmen might try preaching the Holy Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If this were done, Protestantism would again have appeal as true Christianity, and Roman error would naturally be unable to cope with the light of Truth...
"I was very much upset," he says. "I don't remember whether or not I recited the words well. But I remember referring to everybody, saying, 'Ego vos absolvo.' There was only one Protestant aboard-I think he was a German archaeologist. All he asked was whether...