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...scent of unity was heavy in the air, and all week long Protestant leaders were lining up behind the Blake-Pike lead. Presiding Bishop Arthur Carl Lichtenberger of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Rev. Dr. James I. McCord, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, and Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord endorsed the general principles of the proposal. Newly elected President Joseph Irwin Miller (see below) told newsmen: "Perhaps it's the most important church meeting of the century...
...entering a new stage in the evolution of the theological seminary. The period of relative isolation and protection, when seminaries were expected to live a sheltered existence, has passed." So said Dr. James Iley McCord last week at his inauguration as the fourth president of U.S. Presbyterianism's most prestigious ministerial school, Princeton Theological Seminary. For bustling Texan McCord, the ceremonies were purely formal: he has been hard at work at his new job for seven months, since taking over from President John A. Mackay. But to his listeners, McCord last week gave a sharp preview...
...seminary cannot be a trade school," says McCord, and the first task is to cut down on proliferating specialized courses. In their place the faculty must achieve some sort of philosophic unity for the students. "We cannot go on expecting each student to achieve a synthesis on his own when we as a faculty cannot do it." The second task: finding "some way to avoid sweeping surveys, and rethinking the preponderance of lecture courses." To underscore his point, McCord quoted David Hume: "There is nothing to be learned from professors which is not to be met with in books." Continued...
...first chapel address last year, "we have not yet faced up to many of the issues raised by the igth century and posed by the new sciences. The result is that theology has become largely irrelevant in many quarters and often incredibly dull." Presbyterianism itself, added Presbyterian McCord, "is still too large ly a bourgeois phenomenon. It has not touched the masses, nor has it challenged a rising generation of intellectuals...
Mackinac, Mich. (Special)--David McCord, Norman Hall, editor of the Alumni Bulletin, Daniel S. Cheever, Director of Alumni Affairs, and Florence Kimball, Alumni Recorder, are at historic Mackinac Island, participating in the American Alumni Council's 44th General Conference, June 28 to July...