Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessmen-trustees who controlled it, Indianapolis' Second Presbyterian Church was long on status, short on liturgical demands, spare on social and educational sidelights-an only-on-Sundays kind of church whose minister preached soothing sermons. But all that was before the stormy ministry of Dr. Paul Franklin Hudson, 47, who came from Pittsburgh in July of 1960 to take over...
...Express proprietor and Junor's boss, British Press Lord Beaverbrook was only exercising a publisher's right to disagree with his own paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living...
Like his famed predecessor, Reinhold Niebuhr, Bennett is a liberal with a somewhat acid view of the goodness of man. The son of a Presbyterian pastor in Morristown, N.J., he pointed for the ministry as an undergraduate at Williams, went on to Oxford for an A.B. in theology and to Union for his bachelor of divinity degree. He has spent his whole career teaching in seminaries, and has made "idolatrous" Communism his major study. In 1948 he published (and last year updated) the book for which he is best known: Christianity and Communism. He co-edits the liberal religious biweekly...
...week's end, Graham said he deplored the controversy, and felt that the Lutheran Standard had "misinterpreted several statements I made." His children, he explained, were baptized at the age of 9 and 10 by their own choice in the Presbyterian faith of their mother. Describing his as "an ecumenical family," Convinced Baptist Graham said that while he respects the opinions of those who have different views on baptism "my personal convictions are those of my denomination...
Writing in the current issue of the quarterly Theology Today, Presbyterian James I. McCord, 41, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, maintains that the first characteristic of the new age is "the dawn of universal history"-a worldwide interdependence which has brought to an end the time when each nation could make its separate history...