Word: christianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHRISTIAN SEGER New Haven, Conn...
...that the Rev. George Arthur Buttrick, chairman of the Board of Preachers, refused in 1955 to permit a Jewish student to be married by a rabbi in Harvard's Memorial Church. On another occasion, Dr. Buttrick made his position plain: "It is intellectually dishonest for Jewish and Christian marriages to be conducted under the same roof...
Others argued for the simple proposition that a Christian church-memorial or not-ought to be limited to Christian services. Such a restriction, contended Eastern Church History Professor Georges Florovsky of Harvard Divinity School, is "quite normal." Wrote Philosophy Professors Raphael Demos and Donald C. Williams: "A church is not a cafeteria in which all religions may be served to all comers. Any church is some Church ... As such it has its own order of worship and other rules. It has its own sacred symbols; its cross is not something to shift around like a piece of stage scenery...
Walter A. Baker '58 of Kirkland House and Columbia, Ky., has won a Citizenship Award from the International Society of Christian Endeavor. A runner-up in the 1956 and 1957 contests, Baker's prize is $200 and a trip to the Society's New York Convocation. He is active in the Student Christian Movement and the Young Republican Club...
Williams contended that, "It is fantastic to ask whether Harvard is in the Christian tradition," since it is "a matter of historical record" that it is. He also said that the Divinity School should be "free of harassment from the left and right--from the godly and ungodly...