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Doubts About Dogma. A seminary student from the age of twelve, Hegger was ordained as a priest in 1936. Even as a novice, he had doubts about Catholicism's Marian dogmas and about papal infallibility; as a priest, he also came to question the validity of the Mass and...
Three Issues. The strange case of Dr. Merriam involves a number of separate, if tangled, issues. Among them: > THEOLOGY. A self-styled "evangelical" Presbyterian, Merriam was called to the Broadway church because his theological views coincided with those of his predominantly conservative congregation. In doctrine, he adheres strictly to the...
In its theology, Manhattan's famed old (founded in 1825 ) Broadway Presbyterian Church is conservative: its ministers have always been evangelical, fundamentalists who adhere strictly to the Westminster Confession. By contrast, the Presbytery of New York-a group of ministers and elders from Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten Island...
"This means," thundered Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. trying to make the best of it. "increased exports, increased jobs and more prosperity for all Canada." Liberal Leader Lester Pearson, trying to make the worst of it. labeled it "a confession of the complete failure of the government's economic policy...
"Shame!" cried conservative delegates in the camp of Glasgow's Rev. John Gray ("I'm Auld Kirk to the back teeth"), who insisted that the Kirk honor the Westminster Confession. "What fellowship can there be between light and darkness?" a minister shouted. When the resolution passed and the...