Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, says Dean Jerald Brauer of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "the incident dramatizes the situation in which we find ourselves in regard to mercy killing. The religious community will quite soon have to rethink its whole stand on this." It is already doing so. Some Protestant theologians...
Brown voiced his greater concern for the Catholic than the Protestant struggle toward tolerance and dealt specifically with the faltering progress of the Vatican Council's religious liberty resolution. Blocked in three previous sessions, the resolution is up this year for its fourth and last try.
Warns Against Protestant Pride
Brown warned against "Protestant pride which says 'at last the Catholics have found out the real truth about the Reformation.'" He said that the Protestants must also admit their responsibility, "remembering that the high, cost of the Reformation was the disruption of Western Christendom."
"To any Christian," he continued, "the notion of a divided church is a contradiction in terms and a scandalous and shocking situation ... But neither Catholic nor Protestant must have any preconception as to the kind of understanding which will finally emerge," Brown said, "we can only wait and see."