Word: protestantitis
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Last week the National Lutheran Council, an organization representing seven major Lutheran bodies, became the Legion's first important Protestant ally. Speaking for 2,000,000 Lutherans, the Council met in Manhattan, heard a report praising the Legion, urged Lutherans to boycott "degrading" films.
The printed report is candid in recording and appraising the facts. The facts are significant. Of the 150,000 ministers in question 50% have had neither college nor seminary training. 18% have had college training only; 12% have had seminary training only. This leaves only 20% of the Protestant ministers...
...have here an adequate account of any loss of influence and leadership of which Protestantism is aware, and he goes on to say that he does not see how the Protestant church can expect to survive at anything like its present dimensions with so small a proportion of its ministry professionally trained...
It is not fair to blame any single divinity school, whatever its standards, for the existing situation. A graduate from the law school or the medical school has to pass, after taking his degree, the requirements of a State Board before he is allowed to practise his profession. A university...
There is a strong movement on foot among the leading theological seminaries in the country to bring pressure to bear upon the various Protestant denominations to limit and ultimately to abandon altogether the habit of ordaining uneducated men to the ministry. Harvard Divinity School is backing up the Conference of...