Word: presbyterianism
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...stepping down in order to return to Harvard, he could take major credit for a notable improvement in relations between the U.S. and Asia's most advanced nation. Lacking any previous diplomatic field experience, he brought to the job some extraordinary qualifications. Born in Tokyo of Presbyterian missionary parents, Reischauer is married to a member of a distinguished Japanese family, speaks the language fluently and is one of the world's leading authorities on Japanese history. In scores of articles in Japanese publications and in close personal contacts with Japanese from virtually every walk of life, the ambassador...
...Dylan. Such was the thrust of the North American Council of the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, which met last January in Atlantic City. Its report argued that "the knowledge explosion, man's seeming self-sufficiency, the 'God is Dead' theology, do not make obsolete the concept of God as Holy Spirit. Rather they reinforce the concept, making it intensely relevant today to Christian witness." The Holy Spirit, in fact, was seen as manifesting himself in such unexpected areas as the increasing number of labor disputes settled by arbitration and even through such folk singers...
When he retired in 1962 as pastor of Manhattan's modish, 157-year-old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell found a fitting maxim for the occasion, a line from an old temperance song that admonished, "Have courage, my boy, to say no." It was high time, he said, for an old preacher to go dry fly-fishing in the streams of his native Prince Edward Island. Last week, at 73, Bonnell unexpectedly turned no into yes and accepted the presidency of Manhattan's little interdenominational New York Theological Seminary (enrollment: 180). For the occasion...
...think we are on the threshold of a whole new era in theology," says James McCord, Presbyterian president of Princeton Theological Seminary. He believes that the God-the-Father theology of the centuries after the Reformation, and the more recent God-the-Son theology of Karl Barth, Rudolph Bultmann and Paul Tillich are giving way in stress to the third person of the Trinity. The new emphasis, McCord suggests, will be on the Holy Spirit-"the God of the present...
...institutional level, this growing concern with what the Rev. Eugene Smith, executive secretary in the U.S. for the World Council of Churches, calls "the Holy Spirit at work in the world," has led to a spate of discussion. In 1964 the meeting of the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches in Frankfurt, Germany, chose as its theme "Come Creator Spirit." Last June the first national ecumenical meeting of Methodists and Roman Catholics in Chicago had the same focus. Smith believes that the "issue will really blow open" at the next meeting of the World Council of Churches...