Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The distinctions between Roman Catholic and Protestant worship once symbolized the split between the churches; increasingly, they now express the churches' growth toward unity. In the chapel at the Jesuit University of Santa Clara recently, a Lutheran minister presided as a mixed congregation of Catholics and Protestants recited his...
Without checking the sign on the announcement board, it is now sometimes hard to tell whether a new church is Catholic or Protestant. Abandoning baroque altars and ornate candelabra, modern Catholic churches are all but statueless and feature bare, tablelike altars; at the same time, many Protestant ministers have come...
Musically, the principle of borrowing is well established. Appalled by the sugary ineptitude of many Catholic hymns, church musicians have happily borrowed from Protestantism's musical heritage; of the 101 hymns in one new service book approved for use in U.S. Catholic churches, about two-thirds are of Protestant origin. Some Catholic musicologists are experimenting with Anglican plain chant to accompany the texts used at High Mass, while many Protestant churches have adopted the simple melodic settings of the Psalms composed by French Jesuit Joseph Gelineau. Men of both faiths are jointly exploring the liturgical use of new artistic...
Accuracy & Judgment. McKenzie's accuracy and sound judgment as a Biblical theologian have gained him the wholehearted respect of his Protestant peers. Last year he became the first Catholic scholar elected to the presidency of the largely Protestant Society of Biblical Literature, and he is currently a visiting professor...
McKenzie is that rarity among academics, the readable expert: his trim prose glitters with aphorisms-and with, for a Catholic priest, unconventional ideas. He has kind words to say for Protestant Demythologizer Rudolf Bultmann, carefully argues that parts of the Gospels are not historical in the modern sense, accepts the...