Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that the clergy should speak out from the pulpit on controversial political issues? (e.g. disarmament, foreign aid, economic structure, recognition of Communist china...
...believe the clergy should speak out from the pulpit on controversial issues in the local community...
...generally ascribed to the stimulating preaching of Dr. Buttrick, but this does not imply any increased spirituality in the Memorial Church service or in its worshippers. Before Buttrick's arrival, the church was headed by the dean of the Divinity School, who himself spoke only at rare times, the pulpit being occupied generally by itinerant preachers. It may be argued that as Harvard students will flock to hear a lecture by a man whose reputation is known, so will they walk the few steps to Memorial Church to hear a man who has been called one of the nation...
...Hailstorm. In 1482, after eight years of training, the young friar was appointed lecturer to the Dominican Convent of San Marco in Florence. The pulpit orator whose thundering was to keep a city in terror, and who seldom spoke to fewer than 15,000 people in his great years, wrote of his beginnings: "I had neither voice, vigour, nor talent for preaching; indeed, my sermons bored everyone...
...very shocked to read Commissioner King's remark: ". . . The voice of the pulpit should be the voice of the congregation." This quotation is definitely not Presbyterian in meaning, and certainly it is not true to Reformed theology and to prophetic tradition. The Presbyterian Church has always zealously guarded the minister's own prerogative to preach as the Holy Spirit, not man, gives him guidance...