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Word: willism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashionable Protestantism of the last decades was a non-creedal, nontheological, nonecclesiastical Protestantism. It found many passages in the Scriptures to support its intellectually fuzzy, morally weak good-willism. It relied heavily, for example, on the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. If Protestants know anything, they know that thirteenth chapter-'But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three: and the greatest of these is love.' But our attention ought also to be directed to the fourteenth chapter. In the fourteenth chapter of First Corinthians, following right after the glorious hymn to divine love, St. Paul is terribly concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Coping with History | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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