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...WILLIAM GLENESK Spencer Memorial Presbyterian Church Brooklyn...
...weekly Our Sunday Visitor discovered nearly 300 Catholic parishes whose pastors have already introduced tithing, 1,250 others where the system is scheduled for adoption. At its 60th triennial convocation of bishops in Detroit last year, the Protestant Episcopal Church strongly recommended that ministers introduce tithing. The United Presbyterian Fellowship of Tithing Churches, which had twelve congregations at its founding...
...Presbyterian McIntire was expelled by his church in 1936 for "disturbing the peace of the church" by loud and vigorous protests against modernism. He organized his own fundamentalist Presbyterian Church, helped establish the fundamentalist International Council of Christian Churches in opposition to the ecumenical National Council of Churches. Baptist Shields for years, until his death in 1955, carried on a strident campaign against Catholicism and for stricter Bible interpretation...
...Presbyterian Bruce Morgan, professor of religion at Amherst College, the age is truly post-Christian; those who dismiss it as just one among many periods of history dominated by nonbelievers "fail to see the uniqueness of our time." He doubts the contention of Harvard's Paul Tillich (TIME cover, March 16, 1959) that ordinary men, beneath their daily concerns, are still haunted by the "ultimate questions" that lead to the Christian answer...
...Secular Mood. Presbyterian Charles West, who teaches Christian ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary, argues that Morgan has improperly defined the age: it is more post-ideology than post-Christian. "It is not just theologically integrated Christian assumptions which are being questioned by the modern secular mood, but all religions, and even all ideological attempts to give meaning to reality as a whole and man's destiny In it. Salvation by Psychoanalysis, Communism and Existentialism are all fighting the same battle for survival today alongside the remnants of the corpus christianum against the postreligious world...