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Speak of the devil, and up pops John Updike. In an introduction to a new anthology called Soundings in Satanism (Sheed & Ward; $6.95), Updike-a childhood Lutheran who became a Congregationalist-even turns into something of a devil's advocate. Speaking disapprovingly of the widespread disbelief in God's opponent, the novelist observes: "We have become, in our Protestantism, more virtuous than the myths that taught us virtue; we judge them barbaric. We resist the bloody legalities of the Redemption; we face Judgment Day, in our hearts, much as young radicals face the mundane courts-convinced that acquittal...
...Dodd, who has a liberal record on domestic matters but a mysteriously conservative stance on foreign policy, will benefit from his religion. He is a Roman Catholic in a heavily Catholic state. Duffey, a peace candidate and a backer of the 1968 Presidential bid of Gene McCarthy, is a Congregationalist minister. He is a long-time liberal, and his campaign has attracted nationwide attention as an indicator of the political viability of the peace movement...
Though he was raised a Unitarian amid the Lutherans and Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania, Updike joined the more middle-road Congregationalist Church in 1959. Then, a year later, as he was writing Rabbit, Run, the awareness of time passing pressed so closely on him that he felt a constant "sense of horror that beneath this skin of bright and exquisitely sculpted phenomena, death waits." It was a full-dress religious crisis lasting several months, and Updike says now that he got through it only by clinging to the stern, neo-orthodox theology of Switzerland's Karl Earth. In Earth...
...Sissified Lamb. Hard work and evangelism came readily to Barton. His father, an itinerant Congregationalist preacher before settling in an Oak Park, Ill, parish, raised his five children on the King James Bible. At 9, Barton was out delivering newspapers. He worked his way through Amherst by selling pots and pans, graduated in the midst of the 1907 panic and eventually turned to magazine writing and editing. A prolific contributor to such periodicals as Redbook and McCall's, he specialized in inspirational articles that were scorned by critics as simplistic pap but had enormous popular appeal...
...Paul's, Anglican insiders were betting that Prime Minister Harold Wilson would probably follow tradition, name either one of two outspoken ecclesiastical controversialists to the post: Ban-the-Bomb Canon Lewis John Collins of the cathedral, or Ardent Left-winger Edward Carpenter, Archdeacon of Westminster. Instead, Congregationalist Wilson surprised almost everyone by naming a dean who is relatively unknown outside church circles: the Ven. Martin Gloster Sullivan, 57, who as Archdeacon of London since 1963 has been responsible for the supervision of the diocese's 60 parishes...