Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Urged on by the National Council of Churches, the center has been two years abuilding on 32,000 sq. ft. of land made available by the Rockefellers. The National Council is pulling itself together from eight different locations in Manhattan to occupy four floors. Other large-scale tenants: the United...
Tenants will be able to say grace in a 400-seat cafeteria, park their cars underground, and reach Riverside Church and Union Theological Seminary by connecting passages. Says Dr. Roy G. Ross, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches: "It is the prayer of all who worked toward its...
The disclaimer affidavit which the National defense Education Act requires is "inimical to the Protestant principle of freedom of belief," the Divinity School Faculty declared last night. "Moreover," the formal statement continued, "it tends to jeopardize the academic obligation of the Divinity school Faculty to promote freedom of inquiry to...
Of all people, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, took up a Christian cudgel in defense of Nikita Khrushchev. Speaking to members of the British Council of Churches (representing many Protestant denominations), the archbishop decried the fact that no eminent Christian group has endorsed Khrushchev's total disarmament proposals...
When the actual structure began going up, its exterior proved too much for many critics as well, was dubbed "the snail," an "indigestible hot cross bun," a "wash ing machine." Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner and Metropoli tan Museum ex officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an...