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...Preacher would be running Memorial Church and hence would have to be ordained minister. And an ordained minister is almost by definition an ardent advocate of his own religion, or even his own particular sect. He is sort of vested interest. The very title "Preacher" seems to indicate that he would come before his students, not as a scholar communicating his knowledge of religious experience, but as a representative of a particular religion, at least slightly interested in persuading them to embrace his faith. To the extent that he was a missionary for his faith, the Preacher would be compromising...
...General Education course on religion? We can see only one solution to this problem: separate the custodian of Memorial Church from the G.E. professor, and find for the latter post a scholar of wide knowledge, preferably a layman, who represents the religious view without representing a particular sect, or even a particular religion. A course of this kind would round out the teaching of religion at Harvard by presenting it from a hitherto neglected point of view, and could therefore be a perfectly legitimate addition to the curriculum...
...frontier settled down, they too began to build stone churches with stained-glass windows, and adjust their forms and liturgies to the traditional patterns of the middle class. Gradually a new, American kind of Protestantism came into being, a blur of church and sect, of institutionalism and enthusiasm, still bearing the tolerant, "do-gooding," democratic marks of the frontier...
...Prentice, had more troubles. His wife had visions and revelations and decided she was immortal, joining a sect of that type. She and her associates spent large portions of their time blowing rams' horns around churches to bring them down like the walls of Jericho...
Fine Impartiality. Assassin Tahmassebi is a carpenter, a reader of the Koran in the mosque, a member of a small xenophobic sect called Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam) which, with fine impartiality, has been denouncing Truman, Stalin and Britain's George VI. Washington and London, which were shocked and worried by Razmara's murder, regarded Tahmassebi as a mere triggerman; the real instigator was assumed to be Ayatulla Kashani, head of Fadayan Islam and a member of a twelve-man "National Front" in the Majlis (parliament...