Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South would like to divorce themselves from their national organizations. It is not easy. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the arguments of two breakaway congregations in Savannah, Ga., that claimed ownership of their church property. The congregations had held that property in trust for the Presbyterian Church of the U.S., but a Georgia judge had declared that such trusts may be broken if the parent church "substantially departs" from the theology that it professed at the time of the affiliation. On that ground, the jury awarded the property to the Eastern Heights and Hull Memorial Presbyterian Churches...
...Have the butchers of Budapest left yet?" asked an irate matron after Sunday services at Tulsa's big grey Gothic First Presbyterian Church. "I don't know what you mean, ma'am," replied a local cleric impishly. "There's nobody here but us Christians." That seemed to be the case in the Oklahoma oil capital last week. For the first time in its history, the executive committee of the World Council of Churches held one of its semiannual meetings near the buckle of what used to be known as the Bible Belt...
...contrast between the two men goes considerably beyond personality. In his 18 years as secretary-general, Visser 't Hooft was interested more in theological questions than day-to-day administration. Blake, the former Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, sees his duties as primarily pastoral. To give young church dissidents a greater sense of participation in council affairs, he recently invited 75 staff members to a two-day get-together near Montreux. Told they could speak their minds freely, they proceeded to tear apart everything from the way the council organizes its assemblies to the management...
...JAMES A. M. HANNA United Presbyterian Church Oak Hill, Ohio...
...Protestants, perhaps the most galling provocation came last October when Catholic marchers paraded within Londonderry's Old Walls, a Unionist shrine. Convinced that the protesters had overstepped all bounds, Protestant bigots soon began organizing counterdemonstrations. Their spokesman was fiery Ian Paisley, leader of the extremist Free Presbyterian Church, who rarely misses an opportunity to vent his rabidly anti-Catholic views. He refers to the Roman Catholic church as "the greatest dictatorship in the world," and his newspaper has come up with the singular suggestion that the Viet Nam war is a Jesuit conspiracy...