Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exciting things have happened to religion in those eight years. The ecumenical movement has arisen with Pope John and a number of articulate Protestant leaders producing tangible church reform and reunification. American churches haves for the first time become involved in politics. Religious architecture and education have embraced a thousand...
Ugaritic research is only just now showing up in Biblical studies. It strikingly affects a new translation of Psalms I (1-50) by Jesuit Father Mitchell Dahood, published by Doubleday this week as part of its Anchor Bible, a continuing project of Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish experts. Dahood, a...
Some universities still have to settle for what religion educators contemptuously call the Caprew (derived from Catholic-Protestant-Jew) approach: introductory courses about specific religions taught by ministers of these faiths. At the University of Texas, half a dozen courses are taught by local Bible instructors at student centers a...
University religion courses are designed not to defend one faith but to explain all. "We're not selling it; we're studying it," says Chairman John Hutchison of the Claremont College's religion department. Universities deliberately avoid hiring propagandizers for a faith. "It's completely irrelevant...
Beyond the pros and cons of legal reform, there is a separate moral issue. The clear-cut condemnations of the Bible or of traditional moral philosophy have come to be considerably toned down. An influential 1963 statement by British Quakers held that "homosexual affection can be as selfless as heterosexual...