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...want to be on the frontier of theological thought," says James I. McCord, president of the Princeton Theological Seminary. "We want to discuss the major issues confronting Christendom. We want a campus with sufficient openness that the whole church can converse with...
...figure during his 56 years (1822-78) there was Systematic Theologian Charles Hodge. He had a deep interest in mission work; hundreds of seminary graduates were inspired to carry the Gospel overseas as a result of his Sunday-afternoon seminars on the missionary challenge. "At its best," says President McCord, "Princeton's was a missionary theology-a theology that eventuates in action." The seminary survived the faith-shaking fissures that divided Presbyterians during the 19th century, but was nearly torn asunder by a 20th century battle between moderate and ultraconservative theologians. During the '20s, faculty moderates wished...
Barth has been variously damned as a heretic, a narrow-minded Biblicist, and an atheist in disguise-and praised as the most creative Protestant theologian since John Calvin. President James McCord of Princeton
...invitation to the closed-door session at Manhattan's Warwick Hotel was extended to Lutherans last October by Dr. James McCord, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, and secretary of the North American Area of the World Presbyterian Alliance. The dialogue was limited to exploratory topics, most importantly an evaluation of contemporary thinking on the major issues that divide the churches. Among the principal differences between the two confessions are the doctrine of predestination and the nature of the Lord's Supper. To Lutherans, Christ is truly present in the bread and wine of the Eucharist; Reformed churches more...
...McCord is also honorary Curator of the Poetry Room of the College Library and the author of several books of verse. He has been director of the Harvard Fund since its founding in 1925. He also served as editor of the Alumni Bulletin from 1940 to 1946, and originated the column "The College Pump...