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Students at the Divinity School here will still be able to take courses interchangeably with the Episcopal Thelogical Seminary, Boston University Seminary (Methodist), and the Andover-Newton Seminary (Congregational). Such an arrangement has been in operation for the past 15 years...
...spanned the 18th century (he died in 1791, aged 87), the founder of Methodism traveled hundreds of thousands of miles (mostly on horseback), preached 42,000 sermons, wrote learned volumes on subjects as far apart as Hebrew grammar and the electrical treatment of rheumatism. Wesley's Methodist revival embraced all Britain, moved on to America, and today, in Methodist missions, reaches round the world...
...compress this vast story into a popular film biography involves a challenge that might well deter Hollywood. On a less ambitious scale-and aiming to teach as much as to entertain-the Radio and Film Commission of the U.S. Methodist Church has produced John Wesley, a 77-minute "semidocumentary" in color. Made at cost ($200,000) by Britain's J. Arthur Rank, a zealous Methodist himself, it is "for use in the churches...
...pomposities of the Anglican Bishop of Bristol, brushing off a highwayman, slicing through a murderous mob of Cornish fisherfolk. In general, the film lacks the dramatic effectiveness of the Lutherans' successful Martin Luther (TIME, Sept. 14), but it should be a popular and acceptable program piece for Methodist churches for months to come...
Under the arrangement in existence for over 15 years, students at the Divinity School here have been able to take course interchangeably with the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Boston University Seminary (Methodist), and the Andover-Newton Seminary (Congregational). But the Unitarian arrangement will be the first official, on campus tie-in with a denomination...