Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, wearing a pale blue dress of silk shantung and carrying a bouquet of spring flowers, and Nelson Rockefeller, 54, were married by the Rev. Marshall L. Smith, a Presbyterian who is pastor of the interdenominational Union Church of Pocantico Hills. Margaretta is also a Presbyterian; Rockefeller is a Baptist. Only a dozen persons, members of both families, were present...
...Southern Presbyterian Church is a gently, insistently conservative group, both theologically and politically. Its 928,056 members, 99% white, officially support racial integration, applaud those of their churches that practice it, do not chide those that don't. They see merit in testing the literal Bible by scholarship-yet many quietly hold that every word is true. They hearken more closely to Calvin than do their more numerous Northern Presbyterian cousins. They anxiously question the need to lose their identity in ecumenicism. Last week, though under the pervading pressures of world Christianity to become a bit more liberal, they...
...ecumenicism has to come, Southern Presbyterian conservatives prefer a face-saving union with the Reformed Church in America, a smaller, 230,210-member body concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest. Yet Moderator McCorkle is not an unyielding roadblock to unity: "Eventually I think we will get together and all of the Presbyterian families will...
...manuscripts and archaeological finds to a more exciting task: the creation of a Bible translation common to all Christians. In France and Germany, Protestant and Catholic scholars have jointly begun work on new translations of the New Testament; Catholics are working on an interdenominational Bible now being edited by Presbyterian Scholars William F. Albright and David Noel Freedman...
Died. Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, 82, director of surgical service at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from 1921 to 1946, a reserved and humble man born of American missionary parents in Persia, who in 1935 performed the first successful operation for removal of cancer of the pancreas (still known as the "Whipple Operation"), in 1936 was one of the founders of the American Board of Surgery, the highest certification organization of a general surgeon's training and competence; of a heart attack; in Princeton...