Word: presbyterianism
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...Presbyterian moderator's tasks are largely ceremonial, but Edler Hawkins (his life is an endless battle against people who spell his name "Elder") nonetheless becomes chief spokesman for a church that is 95% white in membership. A 1938 graduate of Union Theological Seminary, Hawkins has held only one ministry in his pastoral career, at St. Augustine's Church in a somewhat slum-ridden section of the lower Bronx in New York City. He started the church from scratch, with a congregation of nine; today it numbers 1,000, about one-third of them Puerto Ricans...
Hawkins will undertake the customary "moderator's tour" of the nation's Presbyterian churches. But he also plans to visit Africa, the Middle East and Europe this summer, including, possibly, an important stop in Italy. "I can see the necessity of going on to Rome to visit the Pope," he said. "Pope Paul has opened up channels of communication on the road to a new unity of Christendom...
...petition, only 51 short of the number required to get his proposal out of committee and onto the House floor. But opposition was stiffening for one compelling reason: even mild tinkering with the First Amendment is dubious business. Said the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church: "I take alarm at this experiment with our liberties. The Bill of Rights should remain unamended, for the rights are inalienable...
...known outside church circles, Barnes belongs - along with such figures as Willem Visser 't Hooft, Henry P. Van Dusen, and the late Anglican Bishop of Chichester, Dr. G.K. A. Bell - to the great generation of ecumenical architects who brought the World Council to life. A former English teacher, Presbyterian Minister Barnes, 62, was associate general secretary of the old Federal Council of Churches (a predecessor of today's National) from 1940 to 1950. He has been the ranking executive of the World Council in the U.S. since...
...Francisco's Grace Cathedral four years ago, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake formally proposed that his United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. join the Episcopalians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ to form one great new Protestant denomination of more than 20 million members. Last week Dr. Blake's ecumenical dream proved to be just as far away as ever. At the third annual Consultation on Church Union at Princeton, delegates from the six participating churches* discovered that there was enough agreement on such theological issues as the nature of baptism and Holy Communion for the talks...