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When it was over, District Judge Shannon B. Charlton, a Methodist, prudently gave himself several weeks in which to prepare his decision...
Then came witnesses for the nephews and nieces to testify that a Christian might believe almost anything, or nothing. As for the Apostles' Creed, said the Rev. Lewis L. Dunnington of Iowa City's First Methodist Church, "many things" in it are unacceptable to many Christians. On the question of the Virgin Birth, for example, "I tell my parishioners to pay their money and take their choice...
...began with a Methodist publisher's casual question over a dinner table: "What, in your judgment, is the most urgent task in religious publishing today?" Answered scholarly Dr. George Buttrick of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church: "A new commentary on the Bible which would bridge the gap between the exegetes [interpreters] and rank & file teachers and preachers...
...twelfth and last volume will not be ready for six years more. The completed job will represent the work of 146 Protestant scholars (of more than 25 denominations), will consist of some 10,000 pages, and will cost more than $1,000,000. The publishers, the Abingdon-Cokesbury Press (Methodist), expect to sell individual volumes for $8 to $9 a copy. Price of the present volume (number seven in the eventual series...
...first two Gospels (Matthew and Mark). The exegesis of Matthew is by Episcopal Dean Sherman E. Johnson of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the exposition by Dr. Buttrick. The exegesis of Mark is by Episcopal Professor Frederick C. Grant of Union Theological Seminary, and the exposition by Methodist Professor Halford E. Luccock of Yale Divinity School. The other scholars are of similar high standing...