Word: presbyterianism
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Beginning this week, the better part of Protestant Christianity in the U.S. will be conversing with-and congratulating-Princeton Theological. The oldest, biggest and best of Presbyterian divinity schools is starting a 14-month celebration of its 150th anniversary. The most notable parishioner of Gettysburg's Presbyterian Church, Dwight Eisenhower, is honorary chairman of the celebration. Among the many churchmen who have agreed to lecture at Princeton in the coming months are such famed non-Presbyterians as Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary...
Princeton Theological has been historically tied to the varying fortunes of its founding body: the Presbyterian Church...
Nearly a third of the graduates from the Presbyterian-run College of New Jersey at Princeton, which was founded in 1746, entered the ministry during the 18th century. But even then churchmen detected the growth of godlessness on the campus. In 1812, responding to such fears, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church set up a seminary "to provide for the Church an adequate supply and succession of able and faithful ministers of the New Testament; workmen that need not be ashamed, being qualified rightly to divide the word of truth." Though its 14 neat yellow-grey stone buildings...
...seminary graduates were inspired to carry the Gospel overseas as a result of his Sunday-afternoon seminars on the missionary challenge. "At its best," says President McCord, "Princeton's was a missionary theology-a theology that eventuates in action." The seminary survived the faith-shaking fissures that divided Presbyterians during the 19th century, but was nearly torn asunder by a 20th century battle between moderate and ultraconservative theologians. During the '20s, faculty moderates wished to give a hearing to theologians who were not bound to a literal interpretation of the Bible; conservatives, led by Dr. J. Gresham Machen...
...Barth's interpretation of that Word has plenty of critics. Both Niebuhr and Tillich think that he is too critical of the cultural disciplines, such as philosophy and anthropology, which attempt to give man an insight into life's meaning. Princeton's best-known systematic theologian, Presbyterian George Stuart Hendry, says Barth's Christocentric approach forces many church doctrines into an artificial mold. Wilhelm Pauck of Union Theological Seminary thinks Barth pays insufficient attention to the history of how Christian dogma developed...