Word: calvinist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the bustle and night life of the big cities, The Netherlands is still dotted with some of the world's dourest Calvinist communities. Among its grimmest is the former islet of Urk (pop. 5,500), a fishing village on the Zuider Zee. On Sundays, Urkers still separate their hens from the roosters, turn their paintings to the wall, read only one book (the Bible), take only one processional walk (to church). Doing anything else is sinful. For years life in Urk was pretty routine, and the town constable's daily report invariably read: "Nothing has happened." That...
...city that Calvin had made "the Protestant Rome" flocked church leaders from 75 Reformed and Presbyterian churches, representing 45 million Protestants who acknowledge Calvin as their spiritual father. Dutch Reformed mingled with Hungarian Calvinist; delegates from churches in Poland, Rumania, Australia and Madagascar exchanged greetings with delegates from the U.S. and from the Church of Scotland. Said Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson, pastor of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church: "The Reformist and Presbyterian churches are still the most international of the Protestant groups...
...modern Calvinism the stringencies of his teaching have been much modified -notably his doctrine of election, the role of civil authority as protector of the church, and the word-splitting intolerance of other Protestant doctrines. Today the churches of the Calvinist tradition are newly sensitive to the need for a united Protestantism. In an "Address to our Fellow Christians after 400 Years." 31 Calvinist leaders in Europe, Asia. Africa and the U.S. last week called for a new unity among the churches...
Budding Irony. With the infinite patience of a housewife unsnarling an atrocious tangle of wool, Author Wedgwood shows just how the men of Parliament, aided by the Calvinist Scots, wound up the bright Cavalier cause, captured its fugitive leader and beheaded him. Their answer to flamboyant dash was the sturdy discipline of Cromwell's and Fairfax' "New Model army"; their retort to royal deceit was tough, businesslike cunning-along with an ironhandedness that eventually gave Cromwell the very absolutism he had denied to Charles...
...calls "religion-in-general." The social and technological environment of the 20th century has acted "as a sort of cosmic Slenderella to polish the edges and smooth the roughness of religious particularity." Puritanism once dominated the U.S. attitude to religion, but "God is now offered in packaged, post-Calvinist, highly marketable forms. He is expected to baptize what is 'expedient' for man, to concur with man's reason and will...