Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity at the commencement exercises of the Episcopal Theological School at St. Paul's Chapel, yesterday morning. In addition four men were graduated from the school with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity and five prizes were awarded for excellence in reading and pulpit delivery...
...thought he was. When Bee returned with the consequences ?a red little infant named Cecil? the trouble began. And the scandal and finger-pointing was much increased by the fact that Adrian Plummer, Guy's highly Old Testament father, proclaimed his son's sin from the pulpit and confessed that he, too, had done likewise in his young, irreligious days...
...Billings prize in the Harvard Theological School, for improvement in pulpit delivery, goes to a first-year theological student, Robert Jules Raible, of Louisville...
...fought out in the Committee on Bills and Overtures. Since liberals are in control of this committee, and since there are five overtures asking that the other ten (against Dr. Fosdick) be ignored, there is little chance that the popular preacher will be ousted from the First Presbyterian pulpit of New York. The New York Presbytery has already appointed a committee to investigate the charges against Dr. Fosdick's alleged heresy. This committee will not report until after the General Assembly has dissolved, and the General Assembly could not, with very good grace, ask the New York Presbytery...
...Fosdick pointed out the many similarities between the story of the Virgin Birth and the stories told of the founders of other religions. This now famous sermon, entitled Shall the Fundamentalists Win? made the conservative Presbyterians of Philadelphia attack Dr. Fosdick's right to preach in the pulpit of the First Church, New York. The Fundamentalists hold that the Bible is proved by prophecies which have come true, and miracles like the Virgin Birth, which demonstrate the Divinity of Christ, and the absolute superiority of Christianity over all other religions. Dr. Fosdick points out the similarities between Christian miracles...