Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ulbricht's new constitution is more ominous for what it omits. The new document has dropped entirely the sections from the 1949 law that guaranteed freedom of artistic expression, academic pursuits and scientific inquiry. The 1949 constitution spelled out in detail the rights of both Roman Catholic and Protestant...
Methodist Theologian Van Harvey suggests that the church should not be "a place where men come to be more pious. The church is a place of edification, where one comes to learn to be an honest-to-God person living in dialogue with others." Despite all the yearning for spirituality...
Within the churches, there is considerably less agreement on how this commitment should be exercised. Christian radicals-such as the young firebrands who dominated the National Council of Churches' Conference on Church and Society in Detroit last fall-argue that the true follower of Jesus is the revolutionary, siding...
Nonetheless, theologians also acknowledge that only God is the final judge of who can rightly be considered a Christian. Austrian Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner, for example, suggests that there is today "an invisible Christianity which does indeed possess the justification of sanctifying grace from God. A man belonging to this...
Against the Hard Sell. CEF's muscular pursuit of its goals has stirred angry opposition, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, which contends that state aid to parochial schools violates the separation of church and state and undermines the public school system. Many Protestant church leaders have equally...