Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buttrick was pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City when former President Pusey invited the noted theologian to become minister at Memorial Church. He preached and taught at Harvard from 1955 until his retirement...
John Paul combined the talents of showbiz superstar and avuncular, if stern, pastor. Despite his unyielding stands in matters of dogma and discipline, he proved wildly popular in human terms. Everywhere, he uncompromisingly addressed the key issues troubling the Roman Catholic Church. In Puebla, Mexico, he told Latin American bishops that while the church must preach social justice, it can never accommodate theologies that are inspired as much by Marx as by Jesus. In his homeland of Poland, during the first visit by a Pope to a Communist-ruled land, he encouraged East bloc Christians to persist in their struggle...