Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The changeover from Adenauer, a staunch Roman Catholic, to Erhard, a Protestant, will upset West Germany's Konfessionsarithmetik, the juggling of top jobs between faiths. Since Protestants will probably hold most major Cabinet posts, Erhard is under pressure to appoint Catholics to several powerful positions. For Minister of Economics...
Protestant and Roman Catholic Bibles have historically evolved like two separate streams that shift course from time to time but never quite join. The best-known Protestant translations of Scripture in English, the King James and Revised Standard versions, come essentially from the original Hebrew and Greek; such Catholic editions...
Scholars agree that many of the differences in translations are absurdly anachronistic in the Ecumenical Century. For Catholics, the list of Old Testament prophets includes Osee and Sophonias; Protestants call them Hosea and Zephaniah. In Protestant Bibles, one of the books attributed to St. John is called Revelation; Catholics call...
In Many Languages. The chief U.S. advocate for the common Bible is Oxford-educated Father Walter Abbott, feature editor of the Jesuit weekly America. Abbott hopes to win the approval of U.S. Catholic bishops for a scholarly translation now being prepared for Doubleday's Anchor Books by more than...
Though Roman Catholics and Orthodox and Conservative Jews forbid cremation, many Protestant clergymen prefer it for its lack of ostentation (minimum cremation price is about $100); nevertheless, the national percentage of cremations to burials has stayed at less than 4% for the past ten years.