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Skirting gingerly the question of possible heresy, the assembly ruled that the Synod of New Jersey had exceeded its judicial authority in barring Dr. John Hick from membership in the Presbytery of New Brunswick. A professor of Christian philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary, Hick was voted into membership of the presbytery last year; the synod rejected the election action because Hick had refused to affirm his belief in the virgin birth of Christ. The assembly decided that the synod had erred procedurely in questioning a presbytery's right to choose its own members...
...Jary" Pelikan has written six books (best known: 1959'S The Riddle of Roman Catholicism, which sold 42,000 copies), co-authored six others, produced more than 100 scholarly articles. He also serves as one of the religion editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A graduate of the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, he won his doctorate at Chicago at the age of 22, has established himself as an ecumenical-minded expert on church history. Pelikan, who styles himself as an "evangelical catholic" and "critical traditionalist," believes that the success of the ecumenical movement depends upon...
Merriam, who is well liked by his congregation, promised to carry his fight to the New York State Synod and to the General Assembly if need be. "I am shocked by the presbytery's action," he said. So, regardless of the merit of the charges, were other clergymen, who worried about the presbytery's behavior in removing a pastor over the objections of his parish. Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell, minister emeritus of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, called the exercise of power "disturbing to ministers and elders of the Presbyterian Church at large...
Most ministers of the mainstream Protestant churches profess not to be worried by storefront or cinder-block competition. "They're no real problem." says the Rev. Hugo Leinberger, church extension director for the North Illinois synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church...
...ceremonies at St. Mark's, a member of the Illinois Synod, are no once-a-year ritual. With the approval of his church council and the congregation, Stephen Bremer has instituted daily morning prayer. Communion service on Sundays and saints' days, an evening vigil at Easter; private confession is available to any parishioner who wants it. Nor is St. Mark's an isolated example. Across the country among Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Lutherans, a radical reform in both the form and content of religious services is now under way. It is a liturgical revival that both goes...