Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 16), Cincinnati Lawyer Charles P. Taft, looked like a fine new broom-and the cluttered house of U. S. Protestantism is thick with ancient ecclesiastical dust. The situation suggested a lot of house-cleaning ideas to sharp-tongued Magazine Writer Stanley High. Wrote angry Presbyterian High in this week's Christian Century...
That strange force called Christianity, despite all its marble monuments and pursed lips, demonstrates again 85 again that it is still a living thing. This week, U.S. Christians heard renewed proof of it - from a Scottish Presbyterian baronet and a Roman Catholic priest...
...once more become dedicated ground. Sandy-mustached Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, 51, is no medievalist nor sentimental ruin-regarder. His purpose is hardly less ambitious than St. Columba's: to eventually awaken Scotland and England to a new concept and practice of religion. To many a Scottish Presbyterian, he seems a worthy successor to the Celtic saint himself...
...Roman embryo either if Colman instead of Wilfrid had won the Synod of Whitby in A.D. 664, or again if Abd-ar-Rahman instead of Charles Martel had won the battle of Tours in A.D. 732."-A. J. Toynbee, A Study of History. f Scotland has been Presbyterian since the Scottish barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that the King of England (titular head of the "national church") becomes a Presbyterian as soon as he crosses...
MEROLD WESTPHAL. Kendall Community Presbyterian Church Portland...