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...have until now been a firm supporter of President Reagan's antiterrorist policy. However, he has done the U.S. and himself a great disservice in condoning arms shipments to Iran. Internationally, he has lost all credibility. Donald Dowey Hilden, West Germany...
...Normative" Bible. Church Historian Edward Dowey, Chairman of the 15-man committee that composed the creed, cheered the assembly's approval as "a new direction, a new birth...
...defense of such changes, Dowey explained that the Westminster Confession by itself was neither "ancient enough nor modern enough," to serve as the church's sole confession of faith, and that what the committee did was to add to the totality of what the church believes. Scriptural criticism has made it clear that the Bible is not inerrant in all factual details. Dowey argued that to call the Bible "the normative witness," rather than infallible, is to assert its power as "the norm or authority over all other witness," but he, also conceded, after hearing strong conservative criticism, that...
...Dowey and his fellow creed makers, the real significance of the new confession is its emphasis on the theology of reconciliation, something largely absent from the traditional creeds, yet vital to the church today. How the commissioners felt about one form of reconciliation was apparent in the approval of a resolution that states that there are no Scriptural barriers to interracial marriage and urges Presbyterians to work for the elimination of the 19 state laws that still forbid it. Yet in drawing up the creed. Dowey explained, the committee was careful to avoid endorsing such things as sit-ins, since...
...rigidly literalist," says the church's chief administrative officer, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake. And predestination? "No, I don't believe in predestination, that gloomy theory that contradicts one of Christianity's chief wellsprings-hope," says Louis Armstrong, United Presbyterian layman and Denver businessman. Dowey eloquently sums up the spirit of the renovation: "The Reformed Church, if the name means anything, must always be willing to reform...