Word: pastorates
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Roman Catholics have had an American priest in Moscow off and on for several years, but at no time since the U.S. recognized the Soviet Union in 1933 has there been a permanent Protestant pastor to minister to the tiny (now 280) American colony in Russia's capital. Believers among the Protestant diplomats and journalists have had to be satisfied with the lay readings once a week at the British embassy, or await the monthly arrival of an Anglican priest from nearby Helsinki...
...Even as a novice, he had doubts about Catholicism's Marian dogmas and about papal infallibility; as a priest, he also came to question the validity of the Mass and confession. Sent to Brazil to teach philosophy, Hegger learned the tenets of Protestantism from a Methodist pastor in Rio ; in July 1948 he formally left the church...
Their writings banned, their bodies burned at the stake and their souls consigned to the justice of God, the rebels of Christianity have usually been reported to history through the prejudiced accounts of their vigilant, orthodox suppressors. Historian Walter Nigg, a Swiss Reformed pastor and former professor at the University of Zurich, believes that heretics were not necessarily bad men, and their doctrines not necessarily perversions of God's truth. In The Heretics (Knopf; $6.95). a vivid survey of the church's theological underground, he argues that Christianity owes much to its rebel sons, and has freely adapted...
...critics also frown upon the downstairs services and his bypassing of constitutional appeals in favor of press-agentry. For example, Merriam's supporters called the presbytery's offer of a year's salary to Merriam a "bribe," even though this is standard practice when a pastor is removed from a church...
...other Protestant Biblical scholarship; for example, that the Flood covered only a few miles of the Middle East rather than the entire world, and that Adam might well be a symbolic term for all mankind rather than a specific human being. "This sort of rationalistic criticism." rumbled Houston Pastor K. Owen White, "can lead only to further confusion, unbelief, deterioration and ultimate disintegration of a great New Testament denomination." But not every Baptist preacher was happy about the resolutions. Dr. Wallace Bassett of Dallas warned that they would make Southern Baptist churches "the laughingstock of the Christian world...