Word: sectarianism
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Ironically enough, the movement to end sectarian churches created just another sectarian church-but a uniquely American one: the Disciples of Christ. Last week, when 6,500 delegates gathered in Miami Beach for their annual assembly, the International Convention of Christian Churches, as the Disciples style themselves, could claim, with 1,800,000 members, to be one of the nation's largest indigenous religious bodies. But the Disciples still try to live by Barton Stone's belief that sects should "die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the body of Christ at large." The Disciples...
What forged this friendly setup was a 19th century custody battle over the infant University of Toronto, which both secular and religious educators wanted to run. As a compromise, the Ontario legislature put in a nonsectarian administration to control degrees and the teaching of "university" subjects, mostly science. Sectarian colleges were then invited to join and teach "college" subjects, mostly humanities. St. Michael's in 1887 became the first to join...
...Toronto's other sectarian arts colleges are the Anglican Church's Trinity and the United Church of Canada's Victoria; the nonsectarian members of the federation are University College and professional students' New College...
...great problem of the modern church. It means "Protestants worrying about Catholics' playing bingo or electing a President, and Catholics worrying about artificial contraception in a world faced with a population explosion. It means "every disproportionate concern with the minutiae of religious observance, ecclesiastical organization and sectarian tradition at a time when a whole generation is passing through a world revolution...
Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor in the Harvard Law School, commented yesterday that the Maryland and Pennsylvania cases now coming up present the issue in "more meaningful form" than did the New York case, since the Bible and Lord's Prayer are more clearly sectarian than was the "relatively innocuous" prayer composed by the New York Regents...