Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yet the citizens of that embattled and bloody anachronism-known to its Protestant majority as Ulster and to its Catholic minority as "the Six Counties" -could thank their separate but equal gods that the toll had been no greater than it was.
Ulstermen could also be grateful that the peak of violence passed without an immediate widening of the conflict. The government had not declared a general curfew or a state of martial law; a widespread Protestant backlash against Catholic militancy had not appeared; and members of the illegal Irish Republican Army...
To fix guilt for the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University in May 1970 appeared to be impossible amid the polemic and passion of the time. An Ohio grand jury attempting to assay culpability in the confused events placed blame on Kent State students and administrators and...
The fight was unusual for the L.C.M.S., which is known for its familial German-American solidarity and its loyalty to traditional Lutheran doctrine. Indeed, in the Protestant spectrum, contestants on both sides of the L.C.M.S. battle are relatively conservative. The moderates simply prefer a degree of theological variety and a...
...Poltics of Piety In American Protestantism, as in American political parties, the bitterest factional fights are often within denominations rather than between them. A vigorous, angry, conservative rebellion is challenging the liberals who have dominated mainstream Protestant churches almost steadily since the 1920s. The central issues vary from church to church, but they center on three areas of disagreement: strict v. liberal interpretation of the Bible, evangelism v. social action, and a distrust of ecumenism v. an eagerness for church merger. U.S. Episcopalians felt the crunch of disagreement last fall (TIME, Nov. 2), Presbyterians and Methodists more recently. Nowhere...