Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of Faculty members plan to present to President Pusey this afternoon a "tempered" petition calling for him to open Memorial Church to all religious denominations, the CRIMSON learned last night. The document asks that both Christian and non-Christian services be conducted there...
Memorial Church is not merely a building in the Yard, not merely a "non-sectarian" Protestant Church, whatever that might be. Memorial Church has become a symbol in the larger debate as to whether Harvard is, or ought to be, a Christian institution, and what role, if any, the President should play in promoting a religious' philosophy...
...discussions of religion at Harvard, the President has invoked the University's "Christian tradition" as the guide for his beliefs and actions. In so doing, he has certainly oversimplified the Harvard tradition. There have been many Christian traditions at Harvard. The University's religious commitment has expanded form a narrow Calvinism to the lack of commitment which represents the modern Harvard. Since the late nineteenth century, Harvard's religious tradition has been based upon a minimal moral faith and an abstract principle called "Veritas." The tradition has been inclusive rather than exclusive, one of multiplicity rather than conformity...
Georges Florovsky, professor of Eastern Chruch History, said that it is "quite normal that a university with a Christian Protestant tradition should have a memorial chapel for the use of members of that denomination," even though the chapel may be dedicated to persons not of that tradition...
...felt that the chapel could be used for "neutral purposes" not involving actual religious ceremony. Concerts and recitals might come under this heading. In particular, he said that Memorial Church, having a Christian tradition, should not be used for religious purposes by other denominations...