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Once, Harvard was dedicated to producing learned Protestant ministers. However, today Buffey Professor of Historical Theology Margaret R. Miles says that even at the Divinity School, the study of religion is as much about values and issues as it is about rules and creeds.
. Even amid the glow of his primary victories last week, Clinton rather plaintively acknowledged that he had to do a better job of convincing voters he is an honest man. Some well-wishers go further. "Clinton is going to have to find some forum in which he confronts these character...
Gomes is, after all, a Protestant minister, and some writers and officers of Peninsula are Catholic. They may have views about Gomes' interpretation of the Bible, but they are not about to interfere in what is, at bottom, a Protestant dispute.
The mainstream churches have tried in various ways to adapt themselves to a secular age. The Roman Catholic Church made its liturgy accessible in the vernacular and turned increasingly from saving souls to saving society. The major Protestant denominations also increasingly emphasized social activism and tried to dilute dogma to...
After decades of "pitiless persecutions" under the communists, the primates insisted angrily, the Orthodox Church was entitled to respect from fellow Christians. Instead, Catholics and "certain Protestant Fundamentalists" have been poaching souls on what the Orthodox Church considers its own turf. The primates are especially upset that Pope John Paul...