Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trust that forbade any contamination of the premises that might compromise the claims of Protestant Christianity to a monopoly of ultimate truth." Wrote Psychology Professor Jerome Seymour Bruner: "The Memorial Church now becomes a symbol of disunity . . . There has been exclusion. I cannot avoid the feeling that matters of sectarian religious doctrine have been put ahead of concern for the Harvard community." A delegation of top faculty members paid a visit to President Pusey to object to the policy...
...distressing division within the Harvard community over the use of Memorial Church is the logical if not inevitable result of sectarianism. Zealous sectarians rise to power within sectarianism and have an irresistible urge to use it for sectarian ends. What is the source of this evil which divides every community, every country and the world? More important, what can be done to curb...
...basic agreement, Florovsky stated that a "university should not be sectarian in any sense." He said, "I do not believe a university should have a chapel of any kind. I am only concerned that religion is not silenced or ignored or dismissed as either superstitious or socio-economic phenomena...
Hardly anyone objected on sectarian grounds. It seemed clear that the memorial church was to be a Protestant house of worship; this could be taken for granted from the fact that it directly replaced the old Appleton Chapel which had a strongly Protestant tradition. But the church would have no affiliation with any one Protestant denomination. "The fund for the Chapel," said the Overseers, "shall be solicited upon the express condition that the chapel shall be held as an undenominational trust...
...occasion the sectarian question was brought up explicitly and officially. In May, 1925, at a meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, the War Memorial Committee proposed a resolution favoring construction of the church. Before a vote could be taken, Edward E. Sanborn of the Southern California Club recommended a proviso that "any chapel should not be limited to any sect or creed, but should be open to any priest or preacher or rabbi." Judging from the minutes of the meeting, this proposal was met by silence. The original resolution was immediately passed without discussion...