Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since Christianity first reached it 1,100 years ago, the Ukraine has been strongly religious. Located southwest of Moscow, the region, with a population of 50 million, is agriculturally rich and deeply nationalist. In the 1930s Stalin all but crushed the autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church and in 1946 expunged...
From this sophisticated state point of view, seminaries can be useful-if properly supervised. That may explain why the Soviet Baptists are supposed to get a seminary soon, their first since 1928.' The Baptist faith, the main Protestant group, was often persecuted by the Czars because of Orthodox dominance...
Over the past ten years an estimated 15,000 new religious books have been published. The liberal Protestant weekly Christian Century asked 89 of its scholarly reviewers which titles from the 1970s "most deserve to survive." Last week it offered their top-of-the-decade choices in order of votes...
The Crucified God by Jürgen Moltmann (Harper & Row, 1974). A leading German Protestant theologian probes the central Christian paradox, God's identification with man through Christ's suffering on the Cross.
Karl Barth: His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts by Eberhard Busch (Fortress, 1976). A colleague's intimate biography of the courageous polymath who was this century's leading Protestant theologian.