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...North Georgia Methodist Conference in Atlanta, Vice President Alben W. Berkley explained how he happened to become a Methodist himself. "My ancestors were Presbyterians for six generations," said the Veep, "but I was at a Methodist college-old Emory at Oxford, Ga. I decided to become a Methodist when I was 17. I decided I could be just as good a man in the Methodist Church as in the Presbyterian Church, if I wanted...
...investigate this relationship between faith and politics, a small group of Protestant churchmen met at the close of World War II under the leadership of Methodist Dr. John R. Mott and Presbyterian Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. They decided to begin by commissioning a history of the subject, to be prepared by Church Historian James Hastings Nichols, associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago and author of Primer for Protestants. The result, just published as Democracy and the Churches (Westminster Press; $4.50), turns over many a fertile furrow for both churchman and statesman...
...into the 19th Century. One was represented by the Roman Catholics, Anglicans and Lutherans, who "taught generally the 'divine right of kings,' with the correlative denial of the right of resistance by subjects." The other stream was represented by the Calvinist churches, also known as Reformed or Presbyterian...
...Unanimously voted to ask Presbyterian congregations for a record-breaking budget of $13,429,210-a hike of $1,624,320 from last year...
...Presbyterianism's three largest divisions are named to sound like the whole: the Northern Presbyterians officially call themselves the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (membership: about 2,500,000); the Southern Presbyterians are known as the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (membership: about 673,000); the United Presbyterian Church (membership: about 250,000) was formed in 1858 by a merger of two other Presbyterian bodies...