Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sectarian Mind...
...annually to the doctrinal statement following: "We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and as the supreme and final authority in faith and life." Untold millions of people agree. Could any but a sectarian mind believe that a loving, merciful, just God would harden Pahraoh's heart (Exodus 11:10) so that he would not let the Israelites go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 12:29)? Or kill everybody on the earth except the few people in Noah...
...result, arguments over church-state issues raised by sectarian pressures of individual churches are far fewer than they were a decade ago. Last February, for example, the Catholic Council on Civil Liberties submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court, attacking the Connecticut law against birth control that so long offended Protestants. The National Council of Churches, traditionally opposed to direct federal aid for parochial schools, accepted with only minor qualms this year's education act that provides for certain assistance to children who attend such schools. The breakdown of hostility has taken place on both sides...
...Richard Cardinal Cushing Collection, selected by the Divinity School in consultation with Cushing, will serve as the main body of reference materials for Catholic studies at the non-sectarian theological school...
...that the way to reform the church is to teach truth instead of making the church an instrument through which it is "the guardian of condemnation." Pike called for a church that would emphasize the "certainty of the closeness of God, to all individuals, be they Christian or non-sectarian." As of now, Pike thinks, the church acts as an organization which simply suppresses everything...