Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopeful talk of a peaceful coming together of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, the conversation sooner or later gets down to Spain. The real Catholicism, say its most wary Protestant critics, is not to be found in the democratically coexisting church in the U.S. but in 99.7%-Catholic Spain. There, arch-conservative church leaders have for years treated Protestants with something of the hostility, though not the violence, that pagan Rome displayed toward the early Christians. Spanish laws theoretically grant the country's tiny (30,000) Protestant minority the right to the unhampered private exercise of their faith. But Protestant...
A Gain in Vitality. The cresting of the postwar revival leaves churches looking for new ways to do their work. Protestant churches in scores of U.S. cities have sensibly ended the cutthroat competition for members, joined to set up thriving new interdenominational inner-city missions, many of them modeled after...
"The whole place is run by the police. Armed soldiers and government spies are everywhere. Priests and nuns are imprisoned for trivial reasons." So charges Roman Catholic Father William Dowds, a South African-born missionary, of the country where Christian missions are currently faring worst: the Sudan. Since last November...
The dominant mood of the four-day meeting, attended by 1,000 delegates and observers from 65 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish groups, was what one participant called "that awful fatalism.'' The Rev. Will D. Campbell, former chaplain at Ole Miss and an executive of the National Council...
Protestant Powerlessness. In Escape from Freedom (1941), his best-known book, Fromm traces the origin of this pathetic middle-class creature to Martin Luther. Putting Luther on the couch, Fromm concludes that Luther plunged modern man into despair. In a neat, if oversimplified analysis, Fromm argues that this Protestant feeling...