Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THE shadow that fell across O'Casey's Dublin during the 1920s has become the specter that terrorizes contemporary Ulster. Sections of Londonderry and Belfast are as desolated as London during the blitz, and the scarred faces of empty, bombed-out buildings are pockmarked from gunfire. Streets are blockaded by...
Sir / Your story on the clergy's condoning extramarital sex, "Thou Shalt Not-Maybe" [Dec. 13], points up only too well the accelerating paganization occurring among some of the "mainline" Protestant churches. Seems some of our theologians and denominational leaders, not to mention parish pastors, would rather be Playboy...
Lost Sayings. In the 4th century, St. Augustine opted for the conventional biblical order; it prevailed as Catholic and, later, Protestant teaching until the 18th century. Then biblical scholars of the Enlightenment, becoming concerned about disparities in the internal chronology of the Gospels, reopened the issue. German Scholar Johann Griesbach...
Streeter's theory, sacrosanct in liberal Protestant scholarship for four decades, has come under some attack in recent years. Southern Methodist's William R. Farmer, in his book The Synoptic Problem, maintains that the Mark theory was based not so much on conclusive proof from the Gospel texts...
What Zoutleeuw kept, however, was St. Leonard's Church, dating back to the 13th century, and in it an extraordinary collection of religious art. The treasure of St. Leonard's was saved by the obscurity of its village; it was not looted during the interminable wars that rolled...