Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposition since January. After the Cleveland bulldozer death of Presbyterian Minister Bruce Klunder (TIME, April 17), some 225 of the city's Presbyterian elders and 75 ministers met and questioned three Presbyterian clergymen who had taken part in demonstrations. Not satisfied with their explanations, the Rev. John Bruere, minister of the integrated Calvary Presbyterian church, protested: "We have had to remind ourselves that we were not witnessing the antics of college students during their bacchanalian Easter vacation. The Christian way of solving difficult intellectual, spiritual, social and political problems is being reduced to a childish pantomime...
...Rev. Dan M. Potter, executive director of the sponsoring Protestant Council, says: "It is not Christ who is being depicted at all. Everyone must make up his own mind about it after he has seen it." Disagreeing with Potter's denial is the Rev. Charles H. Graf, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. "It is the betrayal in the garden, the awful death on the scaffold, Good Friday all the way, but no Easter morn. It is adult but not entertainment; it is a circus but not for children...
...Francisco's Grace Cathedral four years ago, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake formally proposed that his United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. join the Episcopalians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ to form one great new Protestant denomination of more than 20 million members. Last week Dr. Blake's ecumenical dream proved to be just as far away as ever. At the third annual Consultation on Church Union at Princeton, delegates from the six participating churches* discovered that there was enough agreement on such theological issues as the nature of baptism and Holy Communion for the talks...
...civil rights leaders were by no means through. Said the Rev. Klunder, who was also vice chairman of the local CORE group: "We are dedicated and committed to continue, and we will not stop short of having the school board revise its plans. This can be done by placing our bodies between the workers and their work...
...limbo (from the Latin word for "hem" or "border"), a fringe of hell where they spend eternity in a state of natural happiness. Published this week is a lively survey of the still unfinished debate over this theological issue, called Limbo: Unsettled Question (Sheed & Ward; $3.95). The author, the Rev. George J. Dyer, is a professor of patristic theology at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary near Chicago...