Word: protestantitis
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...cried, "will be the glory and the crown of my career!" Two dozen brand new Nazi bishops who had hurried to Berlin at the beck of the man who made them clucked in sympathy. In their mystical German minds floated the belief that they were about to merge German Protestantism into a new unity...
Around the Reichsbischof consternation spread. Even his ruthless, sabre-scarred "Civil Administrator" Dr. August Jaeger, took alarm. Dr. Jaeger has done most of the Reichsbischof's dirty work, tearing around Germany with squads of police, seizing the treasuries of bishops deposed by Dr. Müller. even ordering them...
A middle-sized, middle-aged lawyer stood on the rostrum one day last week before the House of Deputies of the sist General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, continuing its deliberations in Atlantic City.
Then he left the rostrum. What meant so much to Dr. Joseph Henry Beale, professor at Harvard Law School, was whether his Church should delete "Protestant" from its name. A famed authority on Taxation, Public Utilities, Municipal Corporations and, above all, Conflicts in Law, Dr. Beale is also a devout...
But Dr. Beale was ready to lead a minority truly convinced that the Episcopal Church is no more Protestant than the Church of England or the Eastern Orthodox Church and therefore should not so call itself. When Dr. Beale left the rostrum the House of Deputies broke two precedents. It...