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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Letters of Support. Mclntire optimistically claims that "anywhere from one-third to one-half of the United Presbyterian members" will defect from the church if the Confession is approved. That hardly seems likely, but there is some evidence for the charge by Executive Editor Nelson Bell of the conservative Protestant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presbyterians: Dissent on a New Creed | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

In John, Jesus tells his Apostles, "Whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven them"; the Epistle of St. James urges Christians, "Confess, therefore, your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be saved." In the early church, penitents commonly confessed their sins in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Confession: Public or Private? | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

More Forgiveness. So far, most Roman Catholic bishops are cool to the idea of de-emphasizing private confession, although advocates of general confession can muster good arguments for their cause. Brother Philip believes that general confession would make sacramental forgiveness more readily available to more people, bring back to Communion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Confession: Public or Private? | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

At its annual General Assembly in Portland recently, the tiny (12,500 members), fundamentalist Orthodox Presbyterian Church formally extended a hand of welcome to any who would like to leave the 3,300,000-member United Presbyterian Church. The same gesture was made by the equally small Bible Presbyterian Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presbyterians: Dissent on a New Creed | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

The principal argument against the Confession of 1967-the first new statement of the church's faith since the 1647 Westminster Confession-is that it betrays rather than updates traditional Presbyterian beliefs. Conservatives claim that it downgrades the Bible from the infallible word of God to a mere "normative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presbyterians: Dissent on a New Creed | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

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