Word: protestantitis
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Glad-handing Senator William Howell Smathers of New Jersey popped up in the U. S. Senate last week to introduce a resolution reminiscent of the long-dead concept of Manifest Destiny.* The resolution: to admit Cuba as a State into the Union. The Senator's pop-up was unfortunate...
To test this shift, TIME last week asked ranking churchmen of each major Protestant denomination what change they had observed in the sentiment of their clergy since Sept. 1939. Without exception they reported a trend away from pacifism. Individual pronouncements-which had no official status-the answers are nonetheless significant...
These were typical pronouncements last week at the 76th meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, at the Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. Familiarly known as Bib Lit, it includes America's foremost Protestant, Jewish and Catholic authorities on the Bible, and gives them what the American...
Born with a bigger circulation than any other Protestant journal, the first weekly issue of The Christian Advocate rolled off the presses last week. Official organ of the Methodist Church, it boasts a hefty initial subscription of over 275,000, was formed by combining seven Methodist papers following the 1939...
Most tony U. S. prep schools-such as Phillips Andover and Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Kent-are Protestant, in spirit if not by direct church affiliation. Twenty-five years ago a Jesuit-educated young man named Nelson Hume decided that this was unfair to Roman Catholic...