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...Harvard, that might as well be Gospel. The Stendahl Committee, formed at the suggestion of Reverend Price upon his retirement in 1972, has advised President Bok in a controversial report to dismantle the current one-minister church and replace it with a three-denominational system...
...Stendahl Committee happened upon a model of ministry which was questionable when it was fashionable ten years ago," Gomes says. "Rather than ensuring recognition of true pluralism, it seems to freeze it at a certain point...
Critics of the report have echoed Gomes, citing all the religious groups excluded by the Stendahl system, and calling for a church with one minister--Gomes--and several other clergymen with non-paying, University appointments...
Though Gomes attributes his success to the changing times, many of the new Memorial Church regulars oppose the Stendahl report only because of Gomes himself--they want Harvard to appoint him the official minister. They seem to be part of congregation attracted to a church more by the preacher than the God inside...
...final report of the Stendahl Committee has not been published. If it makes recommendations substantially similar to those in the preliminary report, religious life in the University will suffer. It is the particular duty of the President of the University, or failing that, the Overseers, to see that this does not happen. The United Ministry plan offers an excellent alternative. To refuse to incorporate their ideas would be to pursue a highly suspect concept of pluralism...