Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday nearest George Washington's birthday, U.S. Presidents generally attend services at Christ Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Va., where Washington himself was a vestryman. John Kennedy was one exception, and for a while it appeared that Lyndon Johnson would be another: he informed the Rev. William Sydnor, rector of the 192-year-old church, that he would be unable to appear, then suddenly changed his mind...
...Primary Mission. These perennial opponents have been joined by a number of responsible laymen and clerics of the council's member churches who are arguing vigorously that the main business of the clergy is to save souls, and not to transform society. One of them is the Rev. Carl Henry, editor of the fortnightly Christianity Today, who argues that the clergy's primary mission "is to invite sinful men to their Savior and Lord, who shapes a new character and morality. The clergy have neither a divine mandate nor authority nor special competence to articulate particular programs...
...some respects the new morality is a healthy advance, as a genuine effort to take literally St. Paul's teachings that through Christ "we are delivered from the law." "Lists of cans and cannots are meaningless," said Princeton's Paul Ramsey. Yale's Protestant chaplain, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, similarly approved the new morality's concept of "guideposts" rather than "hitching posts," although he thought that the church would have to be restructured to accept it as a way of life...
Humanistic Theology? A conservative minority disagrees. The Dowey committee's proposals "will in effect replace every distinguishing doctrine of the Reformed faith with humanistically influenced theology," charges The Rev. G. Aiken Taylor, editor of the Presbyterian Journal. The nondenominational, fortnightly Christianity Today says that the changes will "legitimize contemporary church practices that violate the Westminster Standards, including the hierarchy's mounting involvement in politico-social activity...
Most United Presbyterians are backing the doctrinal updating. "We decided in the 1920s that we would not be a fundamentalist church, but a conservative, Biblically oriented church that was not rigidly literalist," says the church's chief administrative officer, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake. And predestination? "No, I don't believe in predestination, that gloomy theory that contradicts one of Christianity's chief wellsprings-hope," says Louis Armstrong, United Presbyterian layman and Denver businessman. Dowey eloquently sums up the spirit of the renovation: "The Reformed Church, if the name means anything, must always be willing to reform...