Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fish & Sanctity. The first church that young Dr. Coffin took over (he was fresh out of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary) was near a Bronx fish market; in time, "the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish." Later, he moved to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. When he...
In 1926 Dr. Coffin became president of Union Theological Seminary. "Uncle Harry," as his students called him, campaigned for the great liberal causes that are safe and almost old-hat today, but which then still suggested the revolutionary's bonnet: internationalism, equality among the races, unity among Protestant sects...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, 77, president emeritus of New York's Union Theological Seminary; in Lakeville, Conn. (see RELIGION).
Last week Orthodox Jewish leaders, meeting in Atlantic City for the annual convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, were agitated by a brand-new effort to make divorce more trouble than it is worth. Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary and...
Leaders of Reform Judaism, well to the theological left of the Conservative branch, have for the most part abandoned Kethubahs and other impediments to divorce in favor of "moral suasion." They consider the Conservatives' change-the first such major innovation to be attempted in nearly 1,000 years-as...