Word: protestantitis
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July 26-Seven Protestant clergymen and a physician left New York's La-Guardia airport. They were: William Howard Melish, associate rector of Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, chairman of the American-Soviet Friendship Council and longtime friend of the Communist Party; Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, anti...
...Kick in the Pants. "The first reason for this failure is that the church-the modern, modernist Protestant church-rates me altogether too highly. It has been one of the glories of Protestantism that it has put its emphasis on the Individual, on Free Will and Free Choice. But the net result may prove to be disastrous. . . . I'm simply not as good as modern Protestantism assumes me to be. I haven't got the spiritual stuff to do, on my own, what modern Protestantism expects me to do. The church has failed me because it has given...
...Live Devil. "There is, unmistakably, a great uneasiness abroad in American Protestantism-a widespread concern about the Protestant future in this country. Much of that concern seems to be focused on the Catholic Church...
...chief concern about Catholicism should be in terms of school buses or political influence or the separation of church and state. . . . The really vital matter . . . is that for the modern man-and for the likes of me, if you please-the Roman Catholic Church has something to offer which Protestantism too generally isn't offering...
...dynamic and aggressive is the community-church movement that some conservative clerics fear that Burkhart and his colleagues are trying to form a separate denomination. Church Builder Burkhart replies that he would be the first to advocate disbanding the community-church groups when Protestantism as a whole shows itself ready to accept the larger objectives which are its challenge. Says he: "The community church is not the final word. The final word is for Protestant organization and union; and until that time comes, the community church will be the mighty groundswell movement for union...