Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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No Special Favors. Yet never before in U.S. history has the work of the churches and the Government coalesced on such a scale as now. The ecumenical movement, for one thing, has soothed old Protestant fears of a Roman Catholic-engineered, European-style church state. "When we Protestants talked of...
Of the six denominations discussing the "Blake proposal" to create a new Protestant U.S. superchurch, the one most cautious of involvement is the Meth odist.-The nation's 10,235,000 Methodists, who would be the largest component of the union, are triply divided among an ecumenical avant-garde...
Letters of Support. Mclntire optimistically claims that "anywhere from one-third to one-half of the United Presbyterian members" will defect from the church if the Confession is approved. That hardly seems likely, but there is some evidence for the charge by Executive Editor Nelson Bell of the conservative Protestant...
In John, Jesus tells his Apostles, "Whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven them"; the Epistle of St. James urges Christians, "Confess, therefore, your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be saved." In the early church, penitents commonly confessed their sins in public...
Nine months ago the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the U.S. set up an Ecumenical Affairs Commission to carry on a dialogue with other churches. It is rapidly becoming the busiest Catholic agency in the country. Last week eleven members of the commission, headed by Bishop Ernest Unterkoefler of Charleston, S.C...