Word: testament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gideons International, the traveling men's organization famed for distributing Bibles in hotels, has long hoped to extend its activities to the nation's public schools. The Rutherford, N.J. Board of Education approved a Gideons offer to give copies of the New Testament, bound with the Old Testament Books of Psalms and Proverbs, to public-school children whose parents made written requests. But a Jewish father, Bernard Tudor, backed by the American Jewish Congress, and a Catholic parent, Ralph Le Coque (who later withdrew from the case), contested the plan in court and obtained a temporary injunction. This...
Speaking to a packed student audience at the Congregational Church, the president emphasized practicing religion through avoiding stagnation and freely discussing it, in addition to reinterpreting New Testament miracles on a figurative basis...
...illustrate this he drew particular attention to the New Testament parable of Jesus' changing water to wine at Cana at the beginning of his ministry. "We must not laugh at this as a silly myth in the light of our modern knowledge, but must realize its meaning," Pusey stated...
Explaining Williams' typological stand, Miller says, "He belonged to that rare and furtive brotherhood who, here and there throughout the centuries, have taken the New Testament to mean not a continuation but a repudiation of the Old." Because Williams' powerful opponents had modeled the Massachusetts Bay Colony after the fire and thunder kingdoms of the Old Testament, and considered it a social crime to differ with the Massachusetts' Congregational dogma, the implications of Williams' opinions were treasonous and heretical. According to him, the kingdoms of Saul and David were nothing but anachronisms...
...well as freshman, Sunday morning gives no chance for leisure. The family attends the early service at Christ Episcopal Church, then goes to the 11:00 a.m. service in Memorial Chapel. President Pusey has revived the custom, started by President Lowell, in reading the scriptures from the Old Testament lesson each Sunday...