Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mighty role in church history as saints and martyrs, organizers and spiritual guides.* Orthodox and Roman Catholic canon laws forbid females to administer the sacraments, but Protestantism opened the door with its conception of the priesthood of all believers, and in recent years, women ministers have become almost a sectarian commonplace. The U.S. census for 1950 reported an alltime high of 6,777 -4.1% of the total number of clergymen...
...brought up in a devout (Brethren in Christ) family, later considered himself a non-sectarian Christian. He was formally baptized in Washington's National Presbyterian Church in a private ceremony two weeks after his inauguration (TIME...
Dillenberger stressed that the Divinity School has no creedal requirements; it is "non-sectarian in the exclusion of official partisanship for the tenets of any particular religious group within the Protestant framework...
Therefore, the widespread suggestion to teach some kind of interdenominational religion in schools strikes Philosopher White as nonsensical. "Any educational effort to nourish religious feeling by trying to present an abstract essence of religion must fail . . . [We should] become frankly sectarian . . . and therefore limit higher religious instruction to the divinity schools which are properly devoted to the study and the propagation of specific religions conceived as total ways of life, knowledge, emotion and action...
Douglas w. Hunt '55, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association last night praised the actions of the religious club leaders. "The Association really appreciates the sectarian groups consideration of our financial needs," he said. Hunt stressed that because of an expanded program the PBH undergraduate organization's budget demands re almost double the expenditures of two years...