Word: confessionals
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After nine years of debate, study and revision, the United Presbyterian Church last week approved the "Confession of 1967"-the first new Presbyterian creed in 320 years. By a 4-to-l margin, the 829 delegates to the 179th General Assembly in Portland, Ore., voted to accept the Confession, a...
The new creed passed after a lively two-hour debate at which four presbyteries challenged the constitutionality of the Confession, unsuccessfully arguing that the Confession illegally eliminated the archaic, little-used Larger Catechism of 1648 from church doctrine. Still an other dispute arose over the creed's statement that...
The committee on bills and overtures ruled that the phrase was directed not at individuals but at nations, and to clinch the argument, the church's chief administrative officer, Stated Clerk William P. Thompson, read to the assembly a Defense Department memorandum declaring that "commitment to the Confession would...
At the trial, Tempia's attorney duly objected that Miranda had voided his confession. Even so, the confession was admitted, and Tempia was sentenced to six months' hard labor, loss of pay, reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge. In reversing his conviction, the Court of Military...
If a defendant "could not be made a self-accusing witness by coerced answers," wrote Justice Michael Musmanno for the court, "he should not be made a witness against himself by unspoken, assumed answers. A direct confession unwillingly given is a coerced confession. A tacit admission is still an unwilling...