Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unbiased search for religious truth or for the most effective type of religious organization. He does not question the basic assumptions--generally acquired in immature, impressionable childhood--on which his commitment rests. Assuming he has the truth already, the committed man spends the rest of his life reinterpreting the sectarian tradition which he identifies with truth. Truth that cannot be squeezed into the sectarian mold is ignored, denied, or refuted...
...Harvard Divinity prepares pastors for the churches which are sectarian, as nonsectarian churches are few. Unless a sectarian church sees itself reflected in the viewpoints of a prospective pastor it is likely to look elsewhere. "Prudence" might suggest a kind of sectarian trade school which prapares students for such a market as is available...
...report submitted to Levin, three criteria were established for choosing this list. These provided that the charity be basically oriented toward student need, non-sectarian, and partially dependent on student funds for its activities...
...been the habitation of an ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, one of the three major religious bodies within ancient Judaism (the others: the Pharisees and Sadducees). Their conclusions: 1) the manuscripts found near Khirbet Qumrân were once part of an Essene library; 2) the sectarian documents, i.e., The War of the Children of Light and a discipline manual, were Essene writings...
...community at the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains in Kentucky. He had dug the well, built the nonsectarian church, opened the one-room schoolhouse in 1855. But now, he wrote later in the American Missionary, "we need a college here . . . an antislavery, anti-caste, anti-rum, antitobacco, anti-sectarian, pious school under Christian influence, a school that will furnish the best possible facilities for those with small means." Last week, as Berea College celebrated its 100th anniversary, it was everything that its founder could have hoped for. "We need working men," Preacher Fee had said. "The rich, the proud...