Word: protestantizing
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Altogether, it was a bad week for the Provos. Moderate Catholics stiffened their resistance to the I.R.A. after the killing of three British soldiers lured to a party by girl decoys. Police received more than 2,500 anonymous calls from would-be informers. It was too early, of course, to...
...finding what they seek in liberal churches or synagogues. Since the mid-1960s, mainstream Protestantism particularly has slipped in numbers. Together with liberal forms of Catholicism and Judaism, the progressive Protestant denominations are hoist with their own petard. Their very creedal flexibility precludes the certitude that attracts converts. In fact, believes California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, Christianity may be losing its power to grip the imagination. "We have become imageless," he says. "We have no symbols like Moses' passage through the Red Sea. We are empty people. The elements of mystery in the church have been...
Many Americans are finding a measure of transcendence in the growing ranks of the doctrinally conservative Protestant churches, some of them evangelical, some of them frankly fundamentalist. The most impressive example of growth is the Southern Baptist Convention, which has maintained a staunchly biblical faith. Young people of all faiths...
In another vein, many spiritual pilgrims are returning to an appreciation of mysticism. More Jews today-especially the young-are delving into the mysteries of Hasidism, and Christians are re-examining their own great mystics: Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila and Sören...
Some Protestant groups vowed to fight the proposals, although like most moderate Catholics they seemed prepared to enter the Assembly elections. But the anarchist Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army denounced the White Paper, saying that it left "no choice but to fight on."