Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hardly anyone objected on sectarian grounds. It seemed clear that the memorial church was to be a Protestant house of worship; this could be taken for granted from the fact that it directly replaced the old Appleton Chapel which had a strongly Protestant tradition. But the church would have no...
Sperry, as Chairman of the Board of Preachers, was the first to be faced with the question of allowing non-Christian services in the church. The final decision, however, did not lie with him; the Corporation drew up a set of rules for the operation of the church which stated...
Opposed in approach to this view of the non-sectarian University but identical in conclusion is the attitude held by others in the group opposed to Pusey's policy. It is expressed by Frank W. Cross, Jr., associate professor of Old Testament in the Divinity School, who, however, did not...
He interprets the Protestant tradition as requiring "precisely that we not exclude but rather that we welcome those of Jewish or of Catholic faith who wish to celebrate marriage or funeral rites or hold like divine service in Memorial Church."
Memorial Church is not merely a building in the Yard, not merely a "non-sectarian" Protestant Church, whatever that might be. Memorial Church has become a symbol in the larger debate as to whether Harvard is, or ought to be, a Christian institution, and what role, if any, the President...