Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At the age of 42, "to please my father, tease the Pope, and spite the devil," Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, married Catherine von Bora, a 26-year-old former Cistercian nun. The event horrified Catholic Christendom, set the precedent for all future Protestant divines, and led the humanist...
Against Satirists & Cynics. Welcoming men of all faiths, M.R.A. claims that it is not a rival to existing churches. Rome suspects that it is, and many Catholic bishops have warned their flocks against joining. A number of Protestant leaders have attacked its ideology as essentially unBiblical, even though M.R.A. is...
When the nation's Anglican divines in 1789 chose to call themselves "the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.," the name seemed like a suitable description. Originally applied to German Lutherans in 1529, "Protestant" then implied rejection of papal authority, which Anglicans had stood for since Henry VIII; the...
The Wrong Name? At the General Convention, the bishops this year sided with the High Churchmen. By a vote of 79 to 56, they passed a resolution proposing that "the official name of the church be changed by expunging the word Protestant from its title." After a stormy, three-hour...
Shirer based his contentions on observations he made as a correspondent in pre-war Germany. He was particularly concerned about the lack of opposition to Hitler from the clergy. "The lack of guts in churches, both Protestant and Catholic, was the most heartbreaking thing in my experience in Germany," he...