Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fosdick's party paused to study the great, stone chancel screen curving from reading desk to pulpit. Carved large on each of its seven separate sections is an aspect of the Christ...
...followers pointed out the details of the interior: ten enormous stained glass aisle windows softening the sight of his stone pulpit, reading stand and chancel screen; the 1,408 seats in the nave, some equipped with electrical earphone connections, and only 100 blocked by pillars from view of the pulpit; 'the two galleries at one end of the nave and the triforium galleries (seating 1,000) between the pillars and the clerestory windows, reached by four quiet elevators...
...attack to drive from the church all who did not subscribe literally to a few "fundamentals" such as Virgin Birth of Christ. Astute, they concentrated on Dr. Fosdick, since he was a Baptist and since, there- fore, they might win a victory by ousting him from a Presbyterian pulpit without actually having a "heresy" trial in which they were by no means sure of even legalistic success. This made Dr. Fosdick the spokesman of non-Literalist Christianity. Upon him devolved the duty of presenting a "reasonable" Christianity which was not merely a milk & water diet of ethical excellencies. This crisis...
With a new school year beginning, the nation's press and pulpit delivered themselves last week of their perennial salutes to learning. Notable among many observations on contemporary education were these...
Every September such pleas for Disarmament have been heard in Geneva from the minor nations, from Sweden, Norway, Holland, Bulgaria. But not in many a year has a Great Power galvanized the League Assembly with such demands as Jack-in-the-Pulpit proceeded to spout...