Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mich, in the Christian Century, that it "has become the controlling force in American Christianity." What effect has this shift had on the church's spiritual message? Answers Episcopalian Winter: "Despite the strength it has produced, this domination is a threat to the church's witness to Christ's lordship...
...Suburbia has introduced its concept of success into the very center of church life . . . The task of the churches as witnesses to Christ's lordship . . . has been submerged . . . The test of every parish enterprise is whether it will bring monetary and numerical progress...
Light of the World} featured a stumbling, skid-row drunk transformed by an angel into a white-robed candidate for the heavenly host. During the fourth ( Christ Died for Every Nation}, the choir marched in waving American flags, sang God Bless America, later broke into a jazzy hymn called V is for Victory while they waved flags of all nations...
...Douglas Horton, new Dean of the Divinity School, reaffirmed previous statements of President Pusey by saying yesterday that the School "may draw for its leadership from any group within the great Church of Jesus Christ...
Stating that the "very search for truth itself involves an act of faith," Rev. Horton said that there is no reason to fear that "unrestricted thought will eliminate in the Divinity School the factor of commitment to Christ and the Church...