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Hocking studied philosophy at Harvard under the "Philosophical Four"-- Josiah Royce, George Herbert Palmer, William James, and George Santayana-- provided a link to their era. His own creed was once defined as "idealist in the tradition of Royce and pragmatist in the tradition of James...
Soothing Fears. One reason for Thompson's widespread support among the assembly rank and file was his work on behalf of the most controversial item on the agenda: the Confession of 1967. First presented to the 1965 assembly, the new creed is intended to supplement the classic Westminster Confession of 1647. The aim was to draft a new creed that did not abrogate any previous statement of faith accepted by the church, including the Apostles' Creed, but merely supplied a new emphasis to traditional belief...
Conservatives immediately raised two objections. Theologically, the creed's attempt to restate traditional doctrine in modern terms appeared to fudge on it: instead of calling the Bible God's infallible word, for example, the Confession spoke of it as "the normative witness" to God's word. There were also objections to the creed's strong emphasis upon the need for the church to serve as God's reconciling agent on such social issues as discrimination and poverty...
...moderator, Thompson appointed a 15-man committee, reflecting a wide range of opinion within the church, charged with revising the Confession. He traveled widely across the nation last year listening to complaints, gathering suggestions, soothing fears. This year the committee presented a new draft of the creed that pleased both its critics and the theologians who drafted it originally. The revision includes a stronger statement on Christ's divinity, and "normative witness" became "witness without parallel." Without softening the emphasis on social morality, the revision added a statement on a crucial question of personal morality, deploring "anarchy" in sexual...
Mixed Feelings. Most editors echo the reporters' pleasure. "Schooling causes only a short-term disruption of the staff," says Chicago News Managing Editor Creed Black, "but it offers a long-term gain." Detroit News City Editor Boyd Simmons agrees: "I can more confidently send out a man on a complicated story like water pollution when I know he has refined his own technical equipment to deal with it." The Washington Post is so impressed with advanced education that it paid for a year's study at Harvard for its Supreme Court reporter...