Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each other, says Protestant The Christian Century in an editorial for Reformation Sunday (Oct. 30). U.S. Psychoanalyst Karen Homey once cited a danger signal for personal neurosis: response that is out of proportion to the stimulus that set it off. And this, says the Century, is exactly the way Protestantism is becoming when confronted by Roman Catholicism...
...Rome with whom the Reformers broke; she is the ancient foe; her truth still challenges ours . . . Yet the ferocity of some anti-Roman Catholicism this month will have more behind it than any of this. There is a neurotic Protestant anxiety about Rome which, far from safeguarding Protestantism, gets in the way of its positive self-realization and fulfillment...
...over Planned Parenthood and the Community Chest-all such civil affairs may become bitter emotional issues between Protestant and Catholic Christians. "Catholic claustrophobia and Protestant paranoia-these are the matched complexes that tear up American Christendom. What bothers most at this Reformation anniversary, though, is the amount of Protestantism that thinks itself best and most vigorously expressed in terms of that suspicion and resentment...
"Protestant, be yourself! That is, stop defining yourself by what you are against. You are not most Protestant when you are most anti-Catholic. You are most Protestant when you are most free. And that freedom is being free even from historic fear and fascination with an ancient foe. A...
Despite the obvious successes, however, a good many critics challenge the idea. Some businessmen feel that chaplains are useful only in small, centralized plants, or question the whole idea of mixing business and religion. Many thoughtful churchmen also have reservations. They fear that too much time can be devoted to...