Word: clergymen
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Since Swedish women began seriously agitating for admission to the ministry in 1919, the core of opposition has been the older generation of clergymen who take literally Biblical injunctions against female equality, such as St. Paul's in the first Epistle to the Corinthians: "Let your women-keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience . . .'' Women Theologians? Seeking to avoid an open split between the old guard and the church's young, liberal pastors, ailing Archbishop Yngve Brilioth, primate of the state...
Early last week Bishop Brown called an evening meeting of several leading clergymen at his home. Little Rock's ministers, like ministers elsewhere in the U.S., had been successful in building up their church memberships to new highs (103,224,954 nationwide). But no one knew whether this new strength could be translated into Christian action when it might be most needed and most uncomfortable. Crisis-torn Little Rock, thought Bishop Brown, might well be the turning point. Said he: "The church feels itself in a paradoxical position. It stands in judgment on whatever is amiss in the temper...
...blame it would be necessary to reach far beyond the borders of this state"). The bishop did get unequivocal support from the Little Rock board of education. Later that day Bishop Brown mailed out more than 100 personal cards inviting the city's Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen to meet with him in Trinity...
Last week, on the 221st anniversary of Wesley's Christ Church sermon and the 250th anniversary of the year of his birth, some 50 Methodist and Episcopal clergymen marched into the Old North Church to the chimed tunes of Wesley's hymns (two of the best-known: Jesus, Lover of my soul, Hark ! the herald angels sing), to take part in a memorial service. The sermon bore the same title (''One Needful Thing") as Charles Wesley's, and its substance was the stern kind of moralizing that the 18th century preacher would have approved. Methodist...
...Committee's search for a qualified clergymen and scholar able to hold his own with the other members of the faculty on the basis of his academic achievements, continued through 1954, and culminated in the appointment of Buttrick at the end of the year...