Word: congregationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unitarian Universalist Church is a small but historically important liberal religious movement which broke away from the orthodox New England Congregationalist Church in the early 19th century, Hutchison said. He also cited the movement as a major inspiration for early transcendentalists such as Emerson...
...about both his method and his message. Conservative theologians maintain that he is mass-marketing an ersatz, individual-centered gospel that glosses over the troublesome doctrine of sin. Mainstream clergy are disturbed by Schuller's zealous push for conversion and his carnival-barker style. "His success-oriented message," says Congregationalist Browne Barr, former dean of the San Francisco Presbyterian Seminary, "is a happy optimism; it sells nicely, but it is just very shallow...
Maxime Victory Rafransoa, 46, a native of Madagascar with impeccably ecumenical credentials: he was baptized a Congregationalist, raised a Presbyterian and confirmed a Lutheran. More important, in contrast to his flamboyant predecessor, Rafransoa is soft-spoken and diplomatic...
...anti-Catholic polemicist and lawyer who bedeviled the church in the 1940s and '50s with numerous lawsuits and such incendiary treatises as the bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949); in St. Petersburg, Fla. A third-generation clergyman and twin brother of Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul was a Congregationalist minister before deciding that "Christianity is so full of fraud that any honest man should repudiate the whole shebang and espouse atheism instead." His broadsides against the church's "authoritarian control over the minds of men," something he equated with Stalinism, and its "unAmerican" involvement in the affairs...