Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The first Protestants, Steere says, deliberately swept away many of the outward forms of Christianity. Emphasis on visible authority and external practices had brought the Roman Catholic Church, they thought, to Pharisaism and travesty; they hoped to avoid the same pitfall by stressing an inward spirituality. Instead of relying on...
All at Once? Protestantism needs its own external signs and symbols, but what, he asks, shall they be? "What is the symbol of Jesus Christ in a non-feudal world? Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises focus around Christ as a feudal Lord or earthly King and military Leader...
The problem becomes especially sharp, Steere argues, when Protestants undertake to cultivate a devotional life-"whether it is the framing of a liturgy for corporate worship, or a set of retreat exercises, or instructions for private prayer." To the free church congregations, for whom sacramentalism or the priest's...
Nonetheless, Steere notes "certain incalculable assets which Protestantism's character and temper give it in the inward renewal it longs for: 1) It is free to criticize itself and to seek the truth, wherever that may lead it. 2) It is not inseparably bound in its confrontation of Jesus...
For almost ten years, while most of commercial radio has been resolutely aiming at the lowest common denominator, unsponsored Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS) has been persistently and unashamedly highbrow. Radiomen called it "Columbia's Hour of Silence" because they were sure that no listeners could possibly want...