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...Heaven knows, the parish itself soon enough pats even the most independent preacher down into comfortable conformities. But that gentling will be one thing for the man who can remember a time when in his freedom he questioned and challenged and criticized-a different thing from the gentling of a man who from the beginning, driven by family practicalities, has been seeking the pattern that he might conform...
...Memorial Committee proposed a resolution favoring construction of the church. Before a vote could be taken, Edward E. Sanborn of the Southern California Club recommended a proviso that "any chapel should not be limited to any sect or creed, but should be open to any priest or preacher or rabbi." Judging from the minutes of the meeting, this proposal was met by silence. The original resolution was immediately passed without discussion...
This letter is written as a testimony of defense for Dr. George A. Buttrick, preacher to Harvard University for the past three and one half years. Since Dr. Buttrick chooses to remain silent in his own defense, it is the duty of those who admire and respect him to rally to his support at this time...
...life of the College. Our way of life as a community of scholars is secular, not religious. Insofar as the Memorial Church had come into my consciousness, it had done so with the dignity of a place of worship. I had attended weddings there, had heard a great preacher in the Church, and the tolling of the Church bell is deeply associated in my mind with the last service read for some of my most beloved teachers. I am not a religious man in the traditional sense and do not belong formally to a denomination. I am a secular...
...corralled a dazzling collection of theological big-leaguers, including Paul Tillich, Richard R. Niebuhr, Amos Wilder, Georges Florovsky, Douglas Horton, George A. Buttrick, George H. Williams. Memorial Church, once sparsely attended, now teems with students who come Sundays to hear Presbyterian Buttrick fulfill his official function as Preacher to the University. Bartley's quarrel with all this: religion in a university should not subordinate thinking to commitment or individual, disciplined analysis to "Big Answers...