Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Founders Knew. The idea of Protestantism, say the authors, is inescapably tied up with the word "freedom." The four pillars of Protestantism's "big idea" are "Freedom of Conscience: the right and responsibility of every man to worship as his conscience dictates, to make his own judgments . . . Freedom of Grace: with salvation the free gift of God, not to be earned by good deeds, not to be purchased with the coin of any realm . . . Freedom of Access to God: requiring no mediator save Christ . . . Freedom of Religion from Authoritarian Control: the vigorous denial to any government, whether political...
Russia Knows. Authors Hall &. Holisher present nine different categories of the Protestant enterprise in the U.S. (worship, laymen, youth missions, etc.). In conclusion, they decide that, despite past sins of sectarian pride and middle-class smugness, the Protestant idea today has come to its greatest moment. "Protestantism," they say, "has been inevitably cast for its role as chief adversary of Communism. For it has been Protestantism in the main which first unleashed the ideal of freedom and set it singing in the hearts...
...Surratt, was hanged for aiding Booth. King, an editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette and a leader in the movement for an expanded public-school system, said that Congress ended! the U.S. mission to the Holy See on the "erroneous grounds that the Pope refuses to permit Protestant worship within the walls of Rome...
...chapel is in a cement-walled basement room, with very simple whitewash covering, the cement. A large black cross is on the wall opposite the seats. The simplicity is to insure non-denominational worship...
...Great Gods (who never used their real names) were established on Samothrace before the Greeks arrived. For 1,000 years their priests grew fat on the votive offerings of well-heeled worshipers. Ulysses reportedly was a member of the cult; so was L. Calpurnius Piso, father-in-law of Julius Caesar. But in 395 A.D. the worship of the Great Gods was suppressed by the Christian Emperor Theodosius, and their temples were abandoned...