Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CENTER shows the controversial short, Parable, a heavily symbolic film that casts a clown as a latter-day Christ who is crucified under the Big Top. The controversy seems to be between those who think it is art and those who believe it is sacrilege. Most people...
The new Protestant interest in Mary stems from both ecumenism and a closer reading of church history. Just as Roman Catholics within recent years have been rediscovering Scripture, Protestants have begun to study how their understanding of the Bible has been colored and modified by the churches' tradition of...
"The Elect Instrument." Protestant laymen still generally feel this way but, says Lutheran Theologian Joseph Sittler of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "there is new thinking on the part of Protestant scholars about Mariology." In the latest issue of The Journal of Religion, Princeton's W. Paul Jones...
Non-Catholic scholars point out that any Protestant Mariology would have to be subordinated to the doctrine of Christ and closely tied to the New Testament witness. Thus the emerging Protestant interpretation of Mary is considerably more modest than her exalted place in Catholic teaching. Nonetheless, says Chicago's...
Agent Provocateur. The man who broke the Molly Maguires was Franklin Benjamin Gowen, president of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., whose ancestors had come from Ireland's Protestant north; and he used another Irishman to penetrate the Mollies. His choice for the job was James McParlan, a gifted...