Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The so-called "charismatic gifts"-prophecy, spiritual healing and glossolalia, or speaking in tongues-have long been characteristic of the zealous, fundamentalist Pentecostal sects. Increasingly, though, these unusual outpourings of spiritual feeling can be found in mainstream Protestant and even Roman Catholic congregations-and some church leaders are concerned about...
Faith healing is now so common in Protestant churches that there is a nationwide Fellowship of St. Luke, which claims more than 20,000 members. Denominational leaders are considerably less enthusiastic about glossolalia, which is usually carried on by small groups, led as often as not by laymen outside the...
To the Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, it was unthinkable that God's business should be carried out with less professional dispatch than man's. Gavel in hand, he presided over ecumenical gatherings or sessions of his Lutheran Church in America with the cool parliamentary aplomb of a Speaker...
One book that the Class of '68 does not read very much is the Bible; by and large, graduates dismiss institutional churches as irrelevant or unimportant. Nonetheless, Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak of Stanford thinks that there may be "more religion among students who now act on their conscience than...
Limbo-Bound. Error or not, infant baptism has its roots in antiquity. St. Irenaeus in the 2nd century referred to the practice, and it apparently had become the norm of the Church by the year 400. St. Augustine articulated the gloomy theology of baptism that was to remain current in...