Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides Amherst, Brower has two distinct models for a Harvard house. One, Kenneth Murdock's Leverett House in the thirties, was "a marvelous experience" for him, then a young member of its tutorial staff. The other is the English college and specifically Christ's College, Cambridge, which he vividly recalls from his two years there after graduating from Amherst. "It was a revelation. The college is a wonderful institution, really the center of the student's intellectual life...
...legislature, from right to left according to their proximity to, or distance from, traditional Catholicism, the "right" embraces in turn the orthodox churches: Anglicanism, Lutheranism and Presbyterianism. Proceeding from the opposite end of the line at the extreme "left," we find the Friends, the Baptists, the Disciples of Christ, the Congregationalists, other smaller bodies sprung from the "radical Reformation," and the Methodists ; these account for well over 40% of the World Council's membership. In the center, uniting within their membership churches of both "right" and "left," stand a whole group of "united" churches-the United Church of Canada...
Archbishop Fisher's "devastating dictum," describing everybody who is not a Communist or a convinced Christian as an amiable nonentity, smacks of self-adulation and strikes me as "somewhat less than humility. I wonder what the gentle Christ would say to that on the occasion of His second coming...
...Harvard University will have a new chief preacher when the fall term begins: British-born Dr. George Arthur Buttrick, 62, ex-president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ and pastor since 1927 of Manhattan's 3,000-member Madison...
...found a freedom beyond anything they had known in Europe. On paper the colonies severely restricted religious freedom, but the restrictions were seldom enforced against Jews. In 17th century Maryland, a stiff-necked Jewish physician named Jacob Lombroso was tried for blasphemy (he had publicly denied the divinity of Christ), but though he was plainly guilty under the law, the court set the case aside. Lombroso continued to live and prosper in Maryland...