Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Council of Churches' General Board meeting, to be greeted coldly by some protesting right-wing fundamentalists and warmly by two of the nation's most prestigious Protestants: J. Irwin Miller, layman president of the council and Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A...
...Holbrook and Composer Elizabeth Poston are preparing a new hymnal for use in schools (every British school starts the day with a hymn), and so far have found only 100 usable songs from the 10,000 or so contained in seven standard English hymnals. Two years ago, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church brought out a new hymnal that left out such traditional numbers as The Old Rugged Cross and Nearer, My God, to Thee. In 1966 the Methodist Church hopes to publish its first new hymnal in 31 years; more than one-fourth of the songs will be entirely...
...come to escape society," adds President Alvin N. Rogness of St. Paul's Lutheran Theological Seminary, "but to engage it with vital issues." In one recent year, a third of the students at Yale Divinity School were Phi Beta Kappas; of 39 students who entered Austin (Texas) Presbyterian Theological Seminary last year, 13 had IQs of 130 or more. At Vanderbilt, reports Dean William C. Finch, seminarians are "as a group equal to or better than" other graduate students...
...divinity schools are now openly-and successfully -recruiting students of promise. Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena gets 200 inquiries a year in response to its evangelical ads in religious journals, has six part-time recruiters who tour campuses in search of potential ministers. The director of admissions at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary travels more than 5,000 miles a year visiting churches and colleges in the Southwest...
Pentecost & Pennsylvania. Claiming to be a movement rather than a denomination, the Churches of Christ trace their founding back to the first Pentecost. Historians generally date the origin of the churches from 1809, when the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a dissident Presbyterian minister from western Pennsylvania, founded a new "Christian Association" to bring the church back to the practices of New Testament times. The Campbellites eventually split into liberal and conservative camps over such issues as the right of pastors to use the title reverend and the introduction of organ music in church services. In 1906 the conservatives reported separately...