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Presbyterians are substantially altering their confession of faith. A new creed has been drawn up by a committee of United Presbyterian pastors and theologians, headed by Princeton Theological Seminary's Professor Edward A. Dowey Jr.
The proposed 5,000-word "Confession of 1967" does not have to deal with predestination, the historic preoccupation of Presbyterians; an amendment to the Westminster Confession way back in 1903 effectively modified the Calvinist doctrine that some men are predestined for salvation while others are damned to hell. It challenges...
...pastors must take an ordination oath to "sincerely receive and adopt the Confession of Faith and Catechisms," even though most do so with declared reservations. The result, says Boston Pastor Sidney Menk, is "schizophrenic" for many. In 1958, the United Presbyterian Church appointed the Dowey committee to update the confessional beliefs...
June,*the Supreme Court sharply extended the right to counsel by ruling that it begins when police start grilling a prime suspect. Suspects are now entitled to the physical presence of a lawyer as soon as "the process shifts from investigatory to accusatory-when its focus is on the accused...
*He was released in August for lack of any evidence corroborating his now inadmissible confession. Last week he filed a suit against the police for violation of his civil rights during 4½ years in jail.