Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short book published this week, a Presbyterian minister from socialist New Zealand has done his best to bring two strong faiths-Marxism and Christianity -within hailing distance of each other. But Alexander Miller's The Christian Significance of Karl Marx (Macmillan; $1.75) is not likely to convert many Christians to Communism...
...expounding the theory of Marxism, Presbyterian Miller is at his lucid best. Readers who have long shuddered at the jabberwocky of "dialectical materialism" will find this book's opening chapters a clear, practically painless exposition of Marxism's fundamentals. But Author Miller's efforts to find common denominators between the Communist Manifesto and the New Testament are less successful. Christians, says he, would be better Christians for studying Marx because Christians must act in the world...
...City, he used a shawl-draped set of kitchen steps for a pulpit from which to deliver a high-pitched sermon to his lawyer-father and family. From such beginnings came the clear, hard-hitting style of preaching that eventually helped to multiply attendance at his fashionable Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1905 to 1926. Under his liberal leadership (1926-45), Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary moved up to top rank among U.S. divinity schools. When the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions began looking for a speaker for the first postwar Joseph Cook Lectures,* Preacher-Educator-Theologian Coffin...
Caught in History. Christians in Asia and Egypt found Presbyterian Coffin an alert, venerable and charming American. How did he find the state of the Christian world? Said he last week...
Peters, a Presbyterian of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, usually conducts the daily non-sectarian chapel service, but thinks that one weakness of his administration has been that he did not emphasize it more. "I would have more religion in our school if I could get away with it. It is hard to make the boys understand: You've got to have something better than a good meal in you to face tomorrow's troubles. You can't become religious overnight if you need God tomorrow...