Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some physicians are convinced that there are distinct characteristics that make some people more susceptible to chronic pain. Drs. David Richlin and Leonard Brand of Presbyterian Hospital in New York City list the following traits: low motivation, poor self-image, lack of pride in accomplishments, dependency on others...
DIED. Francis Schaeffer, 72, Christian theologian and a leading scholar of evangelical Protestantism; of cancer; in Rochester, Minn. Schaeffer, a Philadelphia-born Presbyterian, and his wife in 1955 founded L'Abri (French for "the shelter"), a chalet in the Swiss Alps known among students and intellectuals for a reasoned rather than emotional approach to religious counseling. His 23 philosophical books include the bestseller How Should We Then Live...
...David Nicholas, pastor of the Spanish River Presbyterian Church in Boca Raton, Fla., writes the outlines of his sermons with the help of a program called Super SCRIPSIT on one of his parish's two Radio Shack computers. Thomas Birr, the church's business administrator, uses two titles from the CompuChurch line, the Gift Program to record donations and the Shepherd...
What's going on here? In the first 77 years of this century we had only one President, Woodrow Wilson, who was so clearly shaped by a church background. His father was a Presbyterian minister. While we have always had religious men, or those professing to be religious men, in the White House, the fusing of spiritual zeal and presidential power is a fairly recent development...
DIED. John Coventry Smith, 80, a leader of the U.S. Protestant missionary movement and a former president of the World Council of Churches; after a heart attack; in Abington, Pa. Smith, a Presbyterian, played a vital role in the postwar movements toward interdenominational unity and the independence of Third World churches...