Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acolyte & Rector. Shelton Bishop's father became rector of St. Philip's in 1886, two years before Shelton was born, and as a boy he always wanted to follow in his father's steps. "I've never wanted to be anything but a priest," he says...
What the Christian church needs is some priestesses, says the Rev. Cyril C. Richardson, professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary. In the current issue of Christianity & Crisis, Episcopalian Richardson argues that through priestesses "the motherhood of the church can be given unique expression."
The old theological argument against such a thing, says Richardson, is "that women are incapable of Holy Order because they are in a state of subjection by nature. According to Aquinas, their subjection to men is due to the fact that 'in man the discretion of reason predominates.'...
After World War I (he enlisted in the army at 17), the first step toward a ministerial career seemed to be college. But at first, he could find no college that was interested in him. Hobart College, at Geneva, N.Y., threw him out twice, put him through aptitude tests and...
* Members: the Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America; Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; the Rev. Eugene C. Blake, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (North); the Rev. Reuben E. Nelson, general secretary of the American Baptist Convention; the Rev. Douglas Horton, minister at large...