Word: scotford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John R. Scotford is a Congregationalist and a former editor of the Congregational Advance. As a Protestant, he has been thinking hard about the growth of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S., and the challenge of this growth to Protestant complacency. In an article in the Christian Century entitled "Where Rome Is Right," Scotford tells fellow Protestants how to meet the challenge...
...Habitually," writes Scotford, "we measure ourselves against the weaknesses of the Roman Catholic Church. We recall the sort of papacy Luther challenged 450 years ago, and celebrate the way in which the Reformation purified religion. This makes us feel superior ... Our pretensions to spiritual superiority were little questioned so long as the Catholics kept to the other side of the tracks and spoke in an unknown tongue. But that day is done...
Protestant Scotford thinks that Protestantism is moving toward a "sense of belonging to an inclusive movement." The 1 emphasis is slowly shifting "from the sectarian part to the ecumenical whole.[But] Protestant unity needs to be dramatized in such a fashion that the man on the street will forget about the 'warring sects,' which exist mainly in the past and in Catholic propaganda, and will see the universal ties by which we are united...