Word: rev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...REV.) C. EDWARD SHARP...
...saints of suburbia are the gogetters. Under their influence suburban church life has become so thriving, says the Rev. Gibson Winter of Brighton, Mich, in the Christian Century, that it "has become the controlling force in American Christianity." What effect has this shift had on the church's spiritual message? Answers Episcopalian Winter: "Despite the strength it has produced, this domination is a threat to the church's witness to Christ's lordship...
...sermon at the annual "Red Mass"* of the New York Guild of Catholic lawyers, the Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., president of Fordham University, attacked the "obsessive liberalism" of the present day-"that frightened and frantic pursuit of freedom alone and at all costs." Obsessive liberalism, he said, "not only seeks an excess of freedom but denies any function to authority save that which is temporary, remedial-and for others. It has made 'authoritarian' a bad word in the semantics of our day. It has proliferated committees in defense of every freedom, but none to uphold authority...
...four: the Rev. George L. Fox, Rabbi Alexander D. Goode, the Rev. Clark V. Poling, and Father John P. Washington...
...REV.) GEORGE E. GOODERHAM...