Word: presbyterianism
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Wallace's career might have provided a model for one of his magazine's profiles, which have always favored Horatio Alger sagas of the onward and the upward. His father was a Presbyterian minister who became president of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., where DeWitt was born...
...mother, a practicing Presbyterian married to a chemist, began reading some of Eric's textbooks-and took some notes. "Just listen to this," she says angrily: " 'Evolutionary philosophy is the philosophy of ethical relativism, racism, military aggression.' " Says Mrs. Finger: "I just don't understand it. What's going...
DIED. Henry S. Huntingdon, 99, onetime Presbyterian minister who became a pioneer of nudism in the U.S., serving as the first editor of the movement's magazine (then called the Nudist) and helping to establish one of the country's first nudist camps, at Otis, Mass.; in Philadelphia. Huntington, who declared himself an agnostic humanist when he resigned his ministry in 1938, maintained that nudism affirmed "the goodness of man and the possible satisfactoriness of life...
...traditional statement of Presbyterian faith had been the lengthy Westminster Confession of 1647. It includes the ancient definition of Jesus Christ as "the second Person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance and equal with the Father." At the second examination last March, Kaseman was asked four times about Christ's bodily Resurrection. He finally said, "I believe in the Resurrection without necessarily believing in the bodily Resurrection." Though he said he "affirms" the doctrine of the Trinity, as required by the Presbyterian church, he indicated he is uncomfortable with traditional creeds and shuns doctrinal...
What had happened in 1967 was that the church broadened its body of creeds and loosened the vows required of new clergy. Presbyterian ministers formerly had to pledge that they "receive and adopt" the Westminster Confession and catechisms. Since 1967 they have only had to promise to be "instructed" and "continually guided" by nine creeds and confessions. The Permanent Judicial Commission decided the local presbytery had been correct in considering Kaseman's views "within the acceptable range of interpretation" permitted by the new vows...