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...Brauer's scholarly field is English Puritanism, and his modern interest is the effect of religion in politics and education. Appointed dean eleven years ago, he is committed to the credo that "knowledge, although of value for its own sake," must lead to social action. >GIBSON WINTER, 49, Episcopalian, professor of ethics and society. Having earned a Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard, he went on to be a pioneer of church renewal and writer of the provocative Suburban Captivity of the Churches. >ROBERT GRANT, 48, Episcopalian, professor of New Testament. The top expert on patristics (the study...
...express their prayers in 17th century English, laced with archaic court periphrastics and metaphors that derive from feudalism. On the assumption that these forms give God the reputation of being hard to talk to, the Rev. Malcolm Boyd has devised a hippier style of communicating with the Almighty. Episcopalian Boyd, who had a successful career in advertising before his ordination in 1955, and has since ministered to college students, last week published his orisons for the age in Are You Running with Me, Jesus?, a book of what Anglican Bishop John A. T. Robinson calls "pop prayers." Samples...
...Episcopalian and a racist...
...judge, an Episcopalian and a racist, waited for us to finish a nervous introduction. We had encountered him only too often in his capacity as head usher, and we knew our man. Now that we sat in his elegantly appointed office in the Dalias County Courthouse, we were terrified. We knew what this man could do, and what we had not seen ourselves we had heard from our friends among the high school kids. We concluded with something more or less coherent about the situation in St. Paul...
...fact that you are a student for the Episcopalian ministry is proof in itself that there was no ill-will in this matter," wrote Fr. Burke...