Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the Divinity School Faculty yesterday disagreed in their opinions on the University's policy on the use of Memorial Church. Administration feeling on the question is that the church should be used only by members of a recognized Christian faith...
...expressed in a letter to the CRIMSON by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, who claims that the present discussion has made Memorial Church "a symbol of disunity in the Harvard community." Although he feels that "one can find legitimate and esthetic justification for the view that a Christian place of worship be just that," he "cannot avoid the feeling that matters of sectarian religious doctrine have been put ahead of concern for the Harvard community...
Another view of the situation came yesterday from the Islamic Society, several of whose members asserted that "we have no expectation that Harvard stop being a Christian institution." The society is "grateful for the use of PBH," they continued...
...doctrinal issues that are remote from the present ideals of the University, the Memorial Church has become a focus of attention and debate. I am in no position to judge either the theological or historical fitness of the decision that Memorial Church is a place of worship where only Christian services may be held. As far as I am able to judge, both the theological case and the historical one are sufficiently shot through with ambiguity so that a decision might as easily have been made to treat this religious memorial to our war dead as a universal place...
...countries, and inscribed on the rolls are men who fought in the ranks of our then enemies. It is sufficient that they are sons of Harvard; we honor their sacrifice. Religious memorial services may not be held in the Church for those among the dead who professed other than Christian faiths...