Word: handlinism
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...signers included Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History; Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus; Carl Kaysen, associate dean of the Faculty of Public Administration; Don K. Price, dean of the Faculty of Public Administration; and George Cabot Lodge '50, administrative assistant for Central American Studies at the Business School...
Speaking at the first of a series of lectures on "The City and the Church," Handlin explained how the ethnic nature of most city churches has been destroyed over the half-century by the movement to the suburbs and the curtailment of large-scale foreign immigration...
...Handlin divided the development of the Church in urban areas into three stages, reflecting the gradual growth of the cities and the steady deterioration of the union between parish and community...
...immigrant from Europe, said Handlin, wanted a Church with the social and communal peculiarities of his homeland and looked on the parish church as a part of his cultural community...
Today, as the Church in the city faces a disintegration of the ethnic based churches, it must turn to new groups of city-dwellers, often Negro, who, Handlin says, are often "historically, economically, and socially remote from the Church." "It is the kind of relationship which the Church establishes with these new people that will determine the Church's role in the rest of this century," he said...