Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Catholics were the least likely to come for help, while those who stated their preference for a religious affiliation other than the common groups, or who stated they had no preference were most likely to come for help...
...psychiatric services. Studies by Davie at Yale, Boyce and Barnes at the University of Western Ontario, and Scheff at the University of Wisconsin showed that students were more likely to seek psychiatric help if they were unaffiliated or were in the "other" category. In our study, Roman Catholic students were less likely than other groups to use the Psychiatric Service. Also, regular church attendance, as reported at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard, is associated with less frequent use of the psychiatric facilities...
...Luther that every age has been able to find in him a religious hero to its own liking. To the Enlightenment he was above all an individualist and rationalist who sneered at superstition and fought totalitarianism. The Romantic era saw Luther as a German nationalist, the rebel against Roman imperialism. Turn-of-the-century Christian liberals pictured him as a primitive reductionist who tried to return the church to its apostolic simplicity. Since Luther's f ears,, foibles and physical ailments are amply documented-notably in his own writings, which fill some 100 volumes in the authoritative Weimar Edition...
...with more than theological argument. In a calculated appeal to the growing spirit of German nationalism, his treatises complained that a soft and corrupt Rome was robbing Germany of its wealth. Within weeks after he wrote them, Luther's latest polemics were printed and circulated throughout the Holy Roman Empire. By 1521, when he was invited by Emperor Charles V to answer the charges against him at the Diet of Worms, the unknown friar had become a folk hero. There, Luther once more insisted that only Biblical authority would sway him. "My conscience is captive to the Word...
...object of Luther's wrath might well be the bureaucratization of the churches. Although one target of the Reformation was the overweening power of the Roman Curia, hardly a U.S. church exists without a frightening quota of red tape and organizational concern. "The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's." Bureaucratic business goes hand in hand with clerical direction of the churches. "It is one of the great ironies of history," says Dean F. Thomas Trotter of California's Claremont School of Theology, "that whereas Protestantism began...