Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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¶He sports a mustache and aviator glasses now, and lives in a comfortable adobe house in suburban Albuquerque. On the dining room wall hangs the coat of arms that indicates that James P. Shannon (TIME cover, Feb. 23, 1970) used to be a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church...
At the same time as Starr, with his 20th century values, is sympathetic to the dreams of Californians, he is quick to point out the false and narrow ideals Californians often had. London's delusions are only one example in the long history of the California mind going astray. The...
Harvard owns about $20 million worth of Exxon stock. Exxon's annual meeting is May 17, and the company's shareholders will vote on the Angola resolution--sponsored by the Church Project on U.S. Investments in Southern Africa, a coalition of Protestant denominations--at that time.
The most ballyhooed of the new arrivals is Robert Payne's pop biography, The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. Farrar, Straus & Giroux has reissued Hitler's Secret Conversations ($19), the Führer's wartime table talk (from Volkswagens to the Virgin Birth) that all Hitler...
...idea was typical of the ecumenical '60s: a well-meaning, religiously tolerant but bureaucratic concept imposed from the top. Yet for a decade, the Consultation on Church Union (COCU) seemed to be one of Protestantism's brightest liberal hopes. Proposed in 1960 by Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, it swiftly grew into an ambitious ecumenical plan embracing some 24 million Americans in nine Protestant denominations, who looked forward to a new streamlined and united Protestantism. The real troubles did not begin until 1970, when COCU actually proposed a detailed plan for union. Members soon began complaining about the prospect...