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...Robert Oppenheimer and several other scientists about what he was as the problems of the Divinity School, Conant posed three questions. The first was whether the Harvard Divinity School should exist at all. Conant's commission later raised several million dollars to follow its own recommendation that the Div School must be "completely reorganized and rehabilitated and not merely patched...
...Div School was then a center of political activism, particularly anti-McCarthyism, and as it became more important as a religious opinion and religious activism grew steadily. This year, a majority of the Div School's faculty proclaimed its support for the nuclear freeze movement in an advertisement circulated widely in national religious magazines...
...Div. School Dean George Rupp stressed at the time that he hoped faculty members at other seminaries would follow the land of the Div School professors and students. At least the other school in the area, the Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, immediately circulated a similar statement, calling for a immediate U.S.-Soviet freeze on the production of nuclear weapons...
Suddenly the Div School began looking like the "new and revitalized school at the University that would have a nationwide influence" that Walter H. Trumbull, the vice-chairman of Conant's Div School Endowment Fund, envisioned. But the school's most visible nationwide influence this year was on political activism, not theology...
Evangelism--its philosophy and techniques--extends from the Rev. Jerry Falwell's brand of fundamentalism, which includes conservative political action and endorsements of candidates to socially oriented churches such as the Society of Friends and the Mennonites. These "peace churches are definitely evangelical," says Mark Smutny, a third-year Div School student. Many biblical Christian churches, such as the Southern Baptists, fall somewhere in between these two extremes and comprise the mainstream of American evangelism...