PROTESTANTISM
(See also Christendom; Churches; National Council of Churches; World Council of Churches)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
Apocrypha: w60 82; g42 6/10 12-13
attitude toward—
Bible: w82 10/1 8; g82 3/8 8-11; g70 2/22 4; is 11, 163; w68 293-294, 538; g67 4/8 28; w66 645-646; g66 9/22 4; g64 7/22 5-6; g64 12/22 10-14
Christ’s presence: w84 12/1 8
evolution theory: g74 7/8 22
violence: g72 4/22 17; g68 9/22 26
war: g85 12/22 4-6; w75 445; w74 360; g72 2/22 30; g72 4/22 6-10, 13-15, 17; g72 10/22 29; g71 6/22 16-19; w67 500; g61 10/8 15-16
Augsburg Confession: g84 4/22 18-20
beginning: w83 9/15 9; w74 273; g72 3/8 16-19; w67 107; qm 292-295; w66 307-308; g64 12/22 10-13; bf 494-496; g61 10/8 18; g59 5/8 7; qm55 292-296; rm 293-294; ta 306-320; w35 341
Bible knowledge lacking: g63 1/8 30
catechetical instruction: w69 140
Catholic influence: qm 292; w63 144-145; bf 498; w61 103; g61 10/8 5; qm55 292; rm 294; ta 310; g37 5/5 483; w35 341-342
return to Catholic rituals: g63 4/8 30; g61 10/8 5; w53 172; g43 3/17 26
Church and State: g65 4/22 31; g64 4/22 17-20; g62 1/8 7; g61 10/8 13-14
church attendance: g80 4/22 30; w74 15; g66 9/22 4
church programs: g67 8/8 8-11
class distinctions: w63 144-146; g62 5/22 29; g61 3/8 12
clergy: g82 11/8 29; w80 1/15 9; w79 1/1 27; w79 9/1 27-31; w75 254; yb72 48; g72 11/8 29; w71 407-408; w70 263-264; yb69 105, 147-148; g69 11/8 6; w68 459; g68 3/8 29-30; g68 4/8 7-8; w66 643-648, 657
confession: w85 12/1 4
contributions: g72 10/22 29; g69 3/8 29
creeds: g82 3/8 9
destruction: w81 3/15 20-21; g61 10/8 23-24
development: w69 140; is 175-176
disunity: g85 6/22 18; g84 5/8 4-5; w83 9/15 3, 5, 9; g72 7/22 30; w71 298; g69 4/22 6; g68 3/8 30; g65 4/22 4-7; g64 4/22 19; bf 496; w62 345-348; w61 103; g61 5/8 30; g61 10/8 21-22; g61 12/22 30; w60 472-473; g60 6/8 6; g60 6/22 6; w54 100; g54 7/22 10-12; w53 357-362
Evangelists:
requests for money: g83 1/22 14; g83 7/8 29; g82 5/22 30; g81 3/22 5-8; g80 5/8 15
evangelizing: w74 492
members preaching: g67 8/8 30-31
need for witnessing emphasized: w85 1/1 15
failure: g84 1/8 8-9; g82 3/8 8-11; w70 39-40; w69 140; is 175-176; w68 463; g68 2/8 31; g66 9/8 30; w64 390-391; g64 4/22 7-8; g64 5/8 18; g64 12/8 29-30; w63 148, 727; g63 1/8 30; g63 7/22 30; g62 1/8 30; g61 4/22 31; g61 5/8 30; g61 10/8 4-5, 14, 18-20; g60 4/22 12-15; w59 724; w57 451-452; g57 9/8 3-4; w54 100; g41 7/23 3-8; w36 87; ch 228; w35 342-343; w34 13
foreshadowed: w42 7; w40 127; w37 351-352; w36 7, 87; w35 341-343; v-1 50-55, 202, 303-319
French Protestant Council of Churches:
support for nuclear-weapons freeze: g85 1/8 11
Germany, Federal Republic of (West):
membership: g80 8/8 30
survey regarding Bible reading: g82 7/22 30
higher criticism: g82 3/8 9-10
in bondage to the teachings of the great apostasy: kc 93-94
in lands under communism: g61 10/8 18
interest in religious unity: g85 6/22 17-19; g84 8/8 25-27; g83 11/8 8; g75 11/22 21; g69 3/8 30; g65 4/22 5-15, 30; w63 389-391
intolerance: g83 11/8 5-6
justification doctrine: w85 12/1 6
membership: w83 9/15 5; sl 206; g72 10/22 29; g64 4/22 4-6; w63 390; g63 2/22 30; g62 1/8 29; g62 5/22 5; g61 10/8 4-5, 18; w60 580; g60 12/8 29-30; w59 295; g36 5/20 517; g33 1/18 242
Germany, Federal Republic of (West): g85 3/22 31; g80 8/8 30
morals: g72 4/22 18-20
myths: w76 211
Nazism: g85 6/8 8-9
politics: g73 12/22 29
shortage of ministers: g66 9/22 4; w62 153-156
social activities: g62 1/22 31; g61 10/8 4-5
Spain: yb78 246-247, 250; g75 2/22 29
spiritual condition: w84 12/1 7-8; g84 11/22 25-27; w79 8/1 19-21; g61 10/8 6-8, 11-14
traditions: g64 4/22 7-8
treatment of heretics: g83 11/8 5-6; g62 11/22 12; w61 534
burned at the stake: g83 11/8 6; qm 295; qm55 295; g45 10/24 29-30; w38 48; cc 29
United Nations: g62 10/8 18-19
use of term Protestant: w66 308; bf 496
view of papacy: w74 273; g69 5/22 18; g65 2/8 27-28
Quotations
activities outside the legitimate field of religious activity: g84 8/8 25-26
a man might be a good Christian though he held some parts of the Bible to be not true: g82 3/8 9-10
better world if Protestants would copy Witnesses: w61 732
church so divided that a non-Christian must decide what kind of Christian he wants to be: g61 12/22 30
clergy lost influence: g32 1/6 216-217
closed Bible, symbol of Protestantism: w70 85-86; g63 1/8 30
contribution to modern nationalism: g82 3/8 11
end of Protestantism soon a reality: g72 8/22 17
even statistically we are now losing ground: g61 10/8 18
exhausted: g36 5/20 527
famished for God’s Word: g51 7/8 8
feeble and lightly regarded: g44 2/2 19
God is behind, underneath, above and beyond it: cy 13
has lost its faith: w63 148
homosexual caucuses in mainline denominations: g84 1/8 9
leaving Christianity to Witnesses: w60 360
low level of biblical literacy in churches: g63 1/8 30
made a super amount of compromises with Nazis: g77 2/22 29
majority vague and confused about the church and its beliefs: g61 10/8 5
makes men easygoing, pussyfooted, and tolerant of everything: g61 10/8 4
manifests the greatest confusion since Babel: g61 5/8 30; g61 10/8 11
most striking fact about churches today is the emptiness of them: g61 10/8 18; w57 764
no answer for salvation: g41 7/23 3
nothing behind it all, no obedience, no service, and no following after: g61 10/8 4
only reason I go to church is because I am a minister: g61 10/8 4-5
position on the relation of church and state is at odds with the New Testament: g61 10/8 13
pray for the Pope’s Ecumenical Conference: w63 391
proselytism an unworthy kind of witness: g84 8/8 26
Protestantism has failed: g61 10/8 30
Protestant Reformers remained firmly attached to the views of Augustine: w81 4/15 12
Protestants are tired and confused: g71 10/8 29
puts conduct ahead of faith: w60 168
religious intolerance and even persecution unto death were continued long after the Reformation: g83 11/8 5-6
several major denominations concluded that unmarried sex, homosexuality may not be sinful: g84 1/8 9
stronger appeal to the prosperous: g62 5/22 29
theological apathy: g63 7/22 30