Word: presbyterianism
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What happened was this. The Presbyterian Church in May completed a nine-year process of revising its confessional standards. Under the American equivalent of the Scottish Barrier Act (which guards against hasty ecclesiastical legislation by requiring that changes in church law be approved by a General Assembly, then be sent down to the presbyterians for their approval, and finally be approved by the next annual General Assembly), what is called "The Confession of 1967" was presented to the General Assembly meeting in Boston in May, 1966. It included a phrase that urged the pursuit of peace, "even at risk...
...MERL L. GALUSHA Mt. Lebanon United Presbyterian Church Pittsburgh...
...missionaries in Indonesia were plagued by Communist troublemakers and Moslem terrorists, and subjected to periodic harassment by a capricious government. Today, the predominantly Moslem nation-in which Christians number less than 10% of the 110 million population-is the scene of an explosive evangelical revival that the U.S. journal Presbyterian Life calls "one of the largest movements toward Christianity in modern decades." In the 20 months since the anti-Communist revolution, Roman Catholic and Protestant churches have won an estimated 250,000 converts...
...Episcopal Bishop Richard Emrich, a convinced ecumenist himself, warned that "one of the great facts of the world is not that you desire unity but that there are real differences of belief." One such difference was pointed out by the Rev. Carl Howie of San Francisco's Calvary Presbyterian Church: "In a large segment of the Christian Church, we consider Jesus Christ the chief pastor...
...chief administrative officer, Stated Clerk William P. Thompson, read to the assembly a Defense Department memorandum declaring that "commitment to the Confession would not disqualify an individual for a position requiring access to classified information." The statement was issued with the approval of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a Presbyterian...