The Council and the Ecumenical Movement

First in a Series

The image of the Roman Catholic Church as obstinately insensitive to the great movements of history has been dramatically shattered in our day. However much this image may have been justifiable in the past, it is a mistake to imagine that an institution as large and far-flung as Roman Catholicism could remain unaffected by the spirit of the times. Thus, for example, the papal church could not ignore that dynamic movement of the sixteenth century known historically as the Reformation. Its answer was both irrational, in the form of persecution, and rational, in the form of the Council of Trent, which sought to present the teachings of Rome in a manner that would be acceptable to the world of that day but which also pronounced anathemas against the distinctive doctrines of the Reformed faith.

So too in our day, Roman Catholicism, unable to insulate itself (assuming that it wished to do so) against the growing heat of the ecumenical spirit, has had to adjust and re-examine itself in confrontation with this movement of contemporary history. Its answer, happily unmarred by the irrationality of a past age, has received focus at the official level in the summoning of the Second Vatican Council and the definitive statements that issued from that council. Although no new designation, the term “ecumenical” used in connection with this council (according to the papal reckoning, the twenty-first ecumenical council in the history of the Church) has taken on added significance because of the temper of the times. The introduction to the Decree on Ecumenism declares plainly that “promoting the restoration of unity among all Christians is one of the chief concerns of the Second Sacred Ecumenical Synod of the Vatican,” pointing out that in recent times God “has begun to bestow more generously upon divided Christians remorse over their divisions and a longing for unity.” (An English translation of this and the other statements officially issued by the council has been published under the title The Documents of Vatican II [New York, 1966]. Our references to this volume will use the abbreviation DV II followed by the page number.) The introduction continues:

Everywhere large numbers have felt the impulse of this grace, and among our separated brethren also there increases from day to day a movement, fostered by the grace of the Holy Spirit, for the restoration of unity among all Christians. Taking part in this movement, which is called ecumenical, are those who invoke the Triune God and confess Jesus as Lord and Savior. They join in not merely as individuals but also as members of the corporate groups in which they have heard the gospel, and which each regards as his Church and, indeed, God’s. And yet, almost everyone, though in different ways, longs that there may be one visible Church of God, a Church truly universal and sent forth to the whole world that the world may be converted to the gospel and so be saved, to the glory of God [DV II, 341],

A major objective of Vatican II was the modernization, the bringing up to date, or, to use the now celebrated Italian noun, the aggiornamento of the Roman Catholic Church, so that it might present a fresh and attractive face that would be pleasing not only to the “separated brethren” but also to the world at large. As Pope John XXIII said in his speech at the opening of the council on October 11, 1962, “by bringing herself up to date where required, and by the wise organization of mutual cooperation, the Church will make men, families, and peoples really turn their minds to heavenly things” (DV II, 712). The Second Vatican Council gives formal notice to the world that the Roman Catholic Church is determined to play a full part in this ecumenical age.

It is important to understand, however, just what the involvement of Rome in this ecumenical age really means. There is no excuse for misconception, for Rome’s definition of its position has been explicit and frank. Far too many persons make the mistake of assuming, despite clear pronouncements on the matter, that the friendly attitude of the papal church to the ecumenical temper of our day implies that application for membership of the World Council of Churches cannot be indefinitely delayed. But this is very far from being true. And it is not without significance that of the documents of Vatican II, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church preceded the Decree on Ecumenism (and, probably, that these two documents were actually promulgated on the same day—November 21, 1964); for it is understandable that the attitude to ecumenism must be related to and governed by the doctrine of the Church. The attitude of Roman Catholicism toward the World Council of Churches has been stated with the utmost clarity by no less an authority than Cardinal Bea, the president of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, which was set up by Pope John XXIII: the Roman Catholic Church, according to him, “cannot, as has often been asked and desired, become a member of this organization which has a completely different character from the structure given by Christ himself to the Church he founded” (Christian Unity: A Catholic View, edited by John C. Heenan, p. 68).

As for those Anglicans who like to think they enjoy a more privileged position, let them heed the admonitory words of the new Catholic Dictionary of Theology, now in process of production, which declares that “amalgamation with the Church of England strictly so called or with the Anglican communion as a whole is, as anyone with the smallest knowledge of these matters knows to be the case, inconceivable,” and reunion between Canterbury and Rome can mean only one thing, namely, “that the Anglican communion, or some portion of it, great or small, should accept the supremacy of the Holy See and the doctrinal definitions of 1854, 1870, and 1950, together with those of the Council of Trent, and then be corporately admitted to Catholic fellowship” (I, 94).

Similarly, the Decree on Ecumenism announces it as a principle that Christ perfects his people’s fellowship in unity “in the confession of one faith, in the common celebration of divine worship, and in the fraternal harmony of the family of God,” through the faithful preaching of the Gospel “by the apostles and their successors—the bishops with Peter’s successor at their head—through their administration of the sacraments, and through their loving exercise of authority” (DV II, 344). In no way does Rome relax its claim to be the one true Church.

No longer, however, are those who are outside the papal fold dismissed as heretics; for “men who believe in Christ and have been properly baptized are brought into a certain, though imperfect, communion with the Catholic Church,” and “they therefore have a right to be honored by the title of Christian and are properly regarded as brothers in the Lord by the sons of the Catholic Church” (DV II, 344). The task of reunion, then, is to bring these erring brethren back into the perfection of that fold from which they have strayed. There can be no question of seeking and finding unity outside the only true Church or of accepting the World Council of Churches as a legitimate ecclesiastical structure. Vatican II makes it absolutely plain that there is only one road to reunion and that this road, restricted to one-way traffic, leads to Rome.

For it is through Christ’s Catholic Church alone, which is the all-embracing means of salvation, that the fulness of the means of salvation can be obtained. It was to the apostolic college alone, of which Peter is the head, that we believe our Lord entrusted all the blessings of the New Covenant, in order to establish on earth the one Body of Christ into which all those should be fully incorporated who already belong in any way to God’s People [DV II, 346].

Roman Catholicism conceives its ecumenical task as being, in the first place, renewal of its own image, including the clearing out of the outdated lumber that litters its household and the reformulation, with dogmatic compromise, of its teachings where this can be done to advantage. It is emphasized that “there can be no ecumenism worthy of the name without a change of heart.” Repentance is necessary for sins against unity. “Thus,” the Decree on Ecumenism reads, “we beg pardon of God and of our separated brethren, just as we forgive those who trespass against us.” The decree goes on to say:

This change of heart and holiness of life, along with public and private prayer for the unity of Christians, should be regarded as the soul of the whole ecumenical movement, and can rightly be called “spiritual ecumenism.”

Another ecumenical requisite is the wish “to understand the outlook of our separated brethren”; as a means to this end, encounter and dialogue are warmly commended, particularly at the theological level:

Of great value for this purpose are meetings between the two sides, especially for discussion of theological problems, where each can deal with the other on an equal footing [DV II, 350].

The admonition is added that “nothing is so foreign to the spirit of ecumenism as a false conciliatory approach which harms the purity of Catholic doctrine and obscures its assured genuine meaning.”

Finally, cooperation of all Christians in social concern is encouraged, in such a way as to manifest “a just appreciation of the dignity of the human person,” to promote “the blessings of peace,” to apply “gospel principles to social life,” to advance “the arts and sciences in a Christian spirit,” and to use “every possible means to relieve the afflictions of our times, such as famine and natural disasters, illiteracy and poverty, lack of housing, and the unequal distribution of wealth” (DV II, 354).

The Decree on Ecumenism is refreshingly free from the ambiguity and double-talk that bedevil so many ecumenical pronouncements. Indeed, there is a striking contrast between this decree and what Hans Küng has described as “the colorless character of many of the theological pronouncements of the World Council and the feeble authority of its decrees” (Structures of the Church, p. 199). Although, naturally enough, there are many important matters in Professor Küng’s writings that we should wish to debate vigorously with him, yet we regard him as one who admirably exemplifies the new spirit by which Roman Catholicism is now so widely animated, and we applaud him wholeheartedly when he affirms that “the testing standard is not the status quo (itself to be tested) of the Church, but the gospel of Jesus Christ” (op. cit., p. 84); and again when he offers the following judgment:

Neither Catholics nor Protestants can consider themselves exempt from making a continuous effort to model themselves upon the apostolic Church. Neither do appeals to Catholic tradition or to the Protestant Reformation release them from the obligation constantly to realize anew that which is the crucial factor, if one desires the designation “apostolic”: namely, objective harmony with the apostolic message [op. cit. p. 98].

On this basis alone—the eternal Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, which at the same time is the authentic message of the apostles—is there a genuine possibility of charitable encounter, forthright speaking, fruitful discussion, and true ecumenical progress. And, however unacceptable by this same standard some of the absolute claims and demands of Rome may be, it is on this basis that we should wish to sit down and talk together. Vatican II has opened the door for just such an encounter, and we welcome it. But unless and until Roman Catholicism radically reforms itself in such a way as to bring its teaching and its practice into “objective harmony with the apostolic message,” we cannot be expected to set out on the Romeward road.

Milton D. Hunnex is professor and head of the department of philosophy at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. He received the B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Redlands and the Ph.D. in the Inter-collegiate Program in Graduate Studies, Claremont, California. He is author of “Philosophies and Philosophers.”

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Latourette’s Appraisal: Christian Influences in the Modern World

Dr. Kenneth Scott Latourette, at eighty-three, is still actively traveling around the world lecturing, teaching, and writing. Sterling Professor of Missions and Oriental History emeritus at Yale University, he is a patriarch among both church historians and Far Eastern historians. His autobiography “Beyond the Ranges” is scheduled to appear this fall. Readers will welcome this opportunity to learn Dr. Latourette’s assessment of the current religious situation, given in an interview conducted by Editor Carl F. H. Henry ofCHRISTIANITY TODAY.

Q: You have always thought of Christianity in global terms, Dr. Latourette. How do you calculate the impact of Christianity and of Christ upon our generation?

Latourette: I am convinced that Christ has never been as widely and deeply influential in the world scene as he is today. First, because Christians—those that bear the Christian name—continue to grow in numbers. The global planting of Christianity in the nineteenth century was connected with Western colonialism and imperialism, and one would expect that with the passing of Western colonialism and imperialism and the Communist conquest of much of the world, these Christian churches would disappear. Exactly the contrary has happened. In no country, so far as I am aware, have Christians completely disappeared. They are still very strong in Russia. I’ve just learned that there are still Christians in North Korea.

Q.: The churches are closed down in North Korea.

Latourette: Yes, they are completely closed down, but the Christians are still living in the mountains and meeting in the mountains in small groups. And they continue in China. They have been dealt very severe blows there, particularly by this cultural revolution they’ve had lately. But we know there are Christians there, and we hear that some conversions are still being made—very quietly, but they are still being made. In some countries and areas, the proportion of Christians is rising. In India fifty years ago, we counted about one out of a hundred who called themselves Christians. Today Christians number about three out of a hundred, and the population of India has mounted from about 300 million to about 500 million.

Q.: Do you think that the swift growth in population will overtake these proportions?

Latourette: I think there is no indication of it now. South of the Sahara the number of Christians is growing very rapidly. They are still a minority; I think that of all African countries possibly only in South Africa would a majority call themselves Christians. In Indonesia a tremendous growth of Christians has been reported within just the last few months. We don’t know all the reasons for it, but we know the growth is taking place. In Japan the number of Christians has never been very large.

Q.: About one per cent of the population?

Latourette: About 1 per cent, or about one-half of 1 per cent in the proportion of church members. But a spot census not many months ago showed about three out of a hundred call themselves Christians, although many are not church members. And in various parts of the world there are gains. In Latin America, the great majority call themselves Catholics. But a friend of mine who taught theology in Chile, the late Father Gustave Weigel, when I first met him about fourteen years ago, said Christianity is dead in Latin America. I don’t think he would say that now—not even of the Catholic Church.

Q.: Here in America, Dr. Latourette, some theologians, let alone secular philosophers, are saying God is dead. What do you think about the present state of American Christianity?

Latourette: I think it is still very vigorous. Of course, as you know, the proportion of church members in this country has been mounting fairly steadily: about five out of a hundred when our nation became independent; about twelve out of a hundred at the time of the Civil War; to about twenty-five out of a hundred at the turn of the century. Today—if you include Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, and Jews, about two-thirds of the population call themselves members of a religious community—the vast majority of those being Christians. Now, how much of vital Christianity there really is, you can’t measure statistically.

Q.: I was going to say that you seem to place such a premium on numerical growth (and I suppose certainly one ought not to consider lack of growth an asset in Christian circles) that I wonder whether you really think Christianity is by definition a minority movement in relation to the world population?

Latourette: Of course it is. And with the present explosion of population, particularly in India and China, Christians or those who call themselves Christians are a smaller minority than they were fifty years ago. The proportion of those bearing the Christian name who are really Christian only God knows.

Q.: Do you think that just as in recent times there has been a global expansion of Christianity, so also there has been a global manifestation of anti-Christianity and anti-Christ?

Latourette: That’s not new. The historian as he goes back over the ages has seen that again and again. Today it has taken at least two drastic forms. One is the growth of Communism; the other, of course, the decline of Christianity in Western Europe—where nearly everyone is baptized and a good proportion are confirmed, but where for a large proportion Christianity is purely nominal. That has been going on now for a century. Since the industrial revolution, the population that has worked in the factories and the mines has never really been held to the Church. They are in both Catholic and Protestant countries; yet as far back as the eighteenth century and certainly the nineteenth century, most of those who worked in factories and mines were largely lost to the Church.

Q.: Do you think the Church has reason to lose heart because of the expansion of totalitarian Communism?

Latourette: Surely not. She has survived dark hours in the past. Islam tore away about half of Christendom about A.D. 700, and the rest of Christendom was threatened partly by internal decay and partly by waves of barbarians sweeping down from the north. And we ought not to forget the condition of the Church in fifteenth-century Europe.

Q.: If you were to venture a guess about the year 2000—and guessing, I suppose, is hazardous for a historian—how would you position Christianity among the world religions and ideologies at the end of this century?

Latourette: Well, as you know, I believe that our Lord may return at any time and bring this present stage of history to an end. That may well come between now and the year 2000. If he delays, my guess is that Christianity will continue to be more deeply rooted in indigenous leadership and indigenous movements, and among more people and in more countries than any other religion has ever been. You see, Christianity today is more widely distributed geographically than any other religion has ever been. There is no exception to that among the major religions of mankind—Confucianism, which of course is dying; Buddhism, which has been declining now for a long time; Hinduism, which is almost entirely confined to India; or Islam. Christianity is not only more widely distributed; it’s also more deeply rooted. It’s not a Western European phenomenon. That is seen in many different ways, of course, both in Protestantism and in Roman Catholicism. Within the last eight years, the East Asia Christian Conference has come into being through the initiative of East Asians and Southeast Asians. These Christians are not content to be just little ghetto communities; they are reaching out to win their own people to the Christian faith and sending missionaries to other countries. For example, not long ago a Filipino whom I knew had been a missionary in Iran. The Korean Christians have been sending missionaries to East Africa without financial assistance from Europe or America, and on their own initiative. And the number of indigenous clergy is growing. It is significant that during World War II, when missionaries were either imprisoned or killed or repatriated, in some areas the number of Christians grew. That was true in the Batak country in Indonesia; there all the missionaries were either imprisoned or killed or exiled, and yet they grew by about 100,000 during the war years and the period of Japanese occupation.

Q.: Apparently quite a vigorous revival is going on in Indonesia right now.

Latourette: Very much so. And the same thing is true in Burma. All the missionaries had to leave during the Japanese occupation, and yet among the largest of the non-Burman peoples, the Karens, the Christians grew in numbers.

Q.: They’re up in the mountains facing the Communist frontier, aren’t they?

Latourette: Some of them are, and some of them are in the south. There are other signs of new life in Asia, also. Studying at Yale this year we have a young man from the Naga hills of India whose father was a headhunter; he’s now planning to go back and teach the Bible.

Q.: Are there other features of Christian expansion in our time that give you some basis for optimism?

Latourette: Well, I’ve just mentioned a few in the non-Occidental world. But within the so-called Christian world new ventures are taking their place, as you know perfectly well. The great evangelistic meeting last year in Berlin, the World Congress on Evangelism, was something completely new; nothing of that sort had ever happened before. In Germany the evangelical academies are trying to deepen Christian commitment, and there are a number of other movements—such as Kerk en Werld in Holland, and the Iona movement. In our country about every week I hear of some new movement showing very great vigor, springing up largely among the laity as well as among some of the clergy, such as Faith at Work. And you probably know many other new ways that I don’t know about.

Q.: There are many cell groups, Dr. Latourette, and many new movements, some of them quite detached from organized Christianity and the institutional church but with a real feeling for New Testament realities and biblical truth.

Latourette: I’m glad to say I hear about a good many of them. And I’m not concerned particularly with the growth of institutions as such. What concerns me is that lives are transformed and Christians continue to meet together for prayer and fellowship and to witness to others.

Q.: What do you think is the essence of the Christian confession, Dr. Latourette? What do you believe?

Latourette: Well, I was taught, and I still hold to it very strongly, that the best brief summary is in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” And later on in John’s Gospel, as you know, our Lord is quoted as saying, “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” That seems to be the very heart of the Gospel.

Q.: What about affirmations of the early ecumenical creeds, such as the bodily resurrection and the virgin birth of Christ?

Latourette: Oh, I believe those myself. Of course they are very widely questioned among a good many people who, I think, are honestly trying to follow Christ. As a historian one has to examine his documents, and I’ve had to question them. But I personally believe that the historical evidence is for the virgin birth and for the bodily resurrection of our Lord.

Q.: You take a positive view, I understand, of the significance of the evangelistic impact in our time, such as represented by evangelist Billy Graham in the large crusades.

Latourette: Oh, yes.

Q.: Dr. Latourette, I understand that you are writing the history of the American Bible Society. Do you think that the Bible and the future of Christianity are closely interrelated?

Latourette: I believe the Bible is God’s Word, and of course the evangelical faith has been very closely linked to the Bible. We are celebrating the 450th anniversary of Luther’s starting of the Reformation. You remember that when he was hailed before the great dignitaries of church and state at the Diet of Worms, he said, “Unless I, Luther, am convinced by reason and by Scripture, I cannot retract anything I have said.” Of course he based his faith on that great passage in Romans, “The just shall live by faith.” Only he said “faith only,” sola fide. Paul got it from Habakkuk. You remember the kind of world in which that was first given. The writer of Habakkuk was almost driven to despair by great forces coming down from the north and destroying men with no regard for the weak and no regard for anything righteous. Why does God allow that? Why does he stand silent when the wicked gather to gobble up a man more righteous than they? And the word came to him, “The righteous shall live by his faith.” Incidentally, many years ago a colleague of mine lost his wife in pregnancy—Douglas MacIntosh, whose name you know.

Q.: Douglas Clyde MacIntosh, who wrote The Problem of Religious Knowledge and other books?

Latourette: Yes. When he had his turn at leading chapel, he said, “You wouldn’t expect me to ignore what’s happened since I was last here.” And he simply read from the last verses of Habakkuk: “Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet …

Q.: When you were president of the American Historical Society, Dr. Latourette, you gave quite an unusual president’s address.

Latourette: The title was: “The Christian Understanding of History.” What I attempted to do was to state what that understanding is, and then to state why I thought it is confirmed by history itself.

Q.: What light do you think Christianity sheds upon the history of our times?

Latourette: Well, I’ve often thought of those three parables in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew that our Lord gave. Remember, he talked about the wheat and the tares—the wheat and the weeds—growing together. They grow together until the harvest. I think that’s happened. Then he went on to say that the kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, and when it grows it becomes a tree and the birds lodge in it; and it’s also like leaven, that leavens the entire lump. Now both of those things have happened; all these three things have been borne out so far in history. Whether our Lord had that in mind when he gave them I don’t know, but they have certainly been confirmed historically.

Q.: What Christian ideas and ideals do you think have had a significant influence in shaping the American outlook?

Latourette: I could write a book on that.

Q.: Do you think that anything that distinguishes America among the nations is due to a Christian ingredient somewhere in its historical conditioning?

Latourette: Yes. You remember that the dollar bill has on its back the great seal of the United States, and part of it is a pyramid with the eye of God above it and the Latin words Annuit Coeptis, “He smiles on our beginnings.” Underneath is Novus Ordo Seclorum, “A new order of the ages.” Our founding fathers believed they were starting something new here. And of course Abraham Lincoln included in his Gettysburg Address the thought that ours is a great new adventure. Now that came out of the Christian dream, something new in this world—government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as Abraham Lincoln defined it. I think that vision had a Christian origin. It’s not the only way in which we’ve been shaped. Of course, we’ve had many movements that were begun by Christians, often secularized as they go on. There was the whole movement for world peace that evangelicals in this country were organizing back early in the last century; this has issued now in our share in the United Nations. The U. N. would never have been but for the Christian dream.

Q.: In its origins it had more of a spiritual orientation than it now has?

Latourette: Yes. And of course the Red Cross. That was begun by Henri Dunant, a young man from Geneva who had a warm Christian experience in his youth. He was a businessman who was present at a big battle in northern Italy in 1859, and he was horrified at the lack of care for the sick and the wounded. So he wrote a best-seller describing it, and said, “Isn’t somebody going to do anything about it?” He and a number of other young Christian men from Geneva organized the International Red Cross. The symbol is Christian, but now it has become pretty well secularized. Both basketball and volleyball were invented by the YMCA to produce wholesome, physical life. Those are minor examples, but they have affected thousands of people. I rather think—though I can’t prove this—that the modern Olympic Games were initiated by Christians also.

Q.: Do you see any signs on the horizon in the present materialistic milieu of a new American creed, a defection from the heritage of the past?

Latourette: No, I don’t see that. Of course, there is a great deal of ignoring of that heritage, but there is also much remembrance of it. I happen to be an honorary member of both Kiwanis and Rotary in my home town, for example, and at each luncheon we solemnly rise and pledge our allegiance to the flag and sing “America” or “The Star-Spangled Banner.” “America” was written by a clergyman in his theological student days, and “The Star-Spangled Banner” by a very devout Episcopal layman.

Q.: What is your assessment of the spiritual state of the churches in America?

Latourette: It varies greatly. I don’t think one ought to generalize too much. I’m a little suspicious of this growth in church membership that probably means a watering down of the quality of church life. But that can’t be proved.

Q.: Do you think that the churches are sometimes onesidedly blamed for our problems in connection with racial tensions and other social problems?

Latourette: Yes, I think they are. But I think that’s partly a tribute to the churches. People expect something of the churches they don’t expect elsewhere, and when the churches don’t live up to that expectation, they blame them for it.

Q.: What are the weaknesses of American Christianity as you see them reflected among university students?

Latourette: I think that the student scene is more varied than I’ve ever known it in all my years of teaching and living at a university. Of those who are not Jews, the great majority who come have been baptized; and if they are in churches that confirm, they’ve been confirmed. But that doesn’t mean much to them; they are in the adolescent age when they’re questioning everything, including the faith in which they’ve been reared. On the other hand, I increasingly run across a number who are convincedly Christian, willing to face all the problems and the facts, and to witness—sometimes in somewhat bizarre ways and sometimes just quietly. In my student days at Yale, sixty years ago, practically everybody was a member of a church. Chapel was required; everybody went. My class voted to continue it. There were class prayer meetings after chapel which a few people attended, a declining number from freshman year on. Required chapel disappeared in the 1920s; there still is voluntary chapel; but there is no daily chapel for undergraduates. Sunday chapel is fairly well attended. And there are some prayer meetings when small groups of students get together, but nothing of a public kind. Whether that means a real decline in the average of Christian living on the campus I don’t know.

Q.: Are there any ideas on the horizon today that seem to spell danger for the churches?

Latourette: Oh, plenty of them. That is not new. Remember our Lord was crucified, and he seemed to die in frustration and failure.

Q.: So if you’ve sometimes been called an inveterate optimist, Dr. Latourette, it isn’t because you underestimate the power of evil in our time?

Latourette: I should say not. And as a historian, of course, I recognize that—as Paul said—to the Jew the Cross is weakness and to the intellectual it just doesn’t make sense, but the weakness of God is stronger than men. As a historian I’ve tried to ask how that has happened. And the foolishness of God is wiser than men. I have wrestled with that problem personally as well as in writing.

Q.: The Apostle Paul said that Christians are more than conquerors. Do you think, Dr. Latourette, that his statement needs to be revised in the twentieth century—that Christians are really an isolated and battered minority?

Latourette: No. Of course I think he meant there that individuals are more than conquerors, facing evil in many different ways, personal illness and bereavement and then great mass evil. But historical facts bear out that they are more than conquerors. They’re not just content to get through unscathed themselves. From them issue great purposes, and often in very strange ways. I didn’t know until a few years ago that President Franklin Roosevelt had Holy Communion in the White House on each one of his inaugurations—a friend of mine who had long been a missionary in China served him Holy Communion at the White House at least once. Roosevelt didn’t want to do it in public because that would be too spectacular. For all Roosevelt’s joking, he would never hear religion disparaged or joked at. Now I don’t know what the good Lord thought about Franklin Roosevelt; it’s not for me to judge. But there is the influence of Christ even upon that life.

An Age of Empty Symbols: Have the Secularists Ambushed God?

Milton D. Hunnex

“Non-Christian,” not “Post-Christian,” is the best description of their Gospel

One of the noteworthy characteristics of contemporary theology is its inability to decide whether man is a religious being who needs a supernatural God or a child of nature whose coming of age includes, among other things, a need to be emancipated from such a dependence. In the past, the second option was not open to the theologian. But today the secular theologian takes the second option to be the only plausible one. To be truly Christian, we are told, is to pursue a certain quality of the secular life unencumbered by old, supernatural ways of thinking. In fact, these theologians add, the Christian faith may be preserved only as we attempt to understand that faith in a non-supernatural, secular way.

“Secular theologians share a common presupposition,” writes sociologist Peter L. Berger. It is this:

The traditional religious affirmations are no longer tenable, either because they do not meet certain modern philosophical or scientific criteria of validity, or because they are contrary to an alleged modern world view that is somehow binding on everybody” [“A Sociological View of the Secularization of Theology,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Spring, 1967, p. 5].

Secular theologians deny the objective validity of the supernatural affirmations of the Christian tradition, and have a greater propensity to proclaim themselves atheists than the average theologically untrained skeptic, writes this observer. They are like the drunkard who carefully walks in the center of the gutter so that he cannot possibly fall into it.

As a cultural phenomenon, secular theology can be accounted for either as the result of attempts by liberal theology since Schleiermacher to accommodate Christian beliefs to the modern, scientific world or as the result of the influence upon theology of the forces that account for the modern world itself. Berger writes:

Secular theology must be understood as emerging from a situation in which the traditional religious certitudes have become progressively less credible, not necessarily because modern man has some intrinsically superior access to the truth, but because he exists in a sociocultural situation which itself undermines religious certitude [p. 10].

Relativizing secular theologians are blind to the relativity of their own debunking apparatus, he continues:

What … cries out for explanation is the fact that Bultmann and with him the entire movement [of secular theology] takes for granted the epistemological superiority of the electricity—and radio—users over the New Testament writers.… Secularized consciousness is taken for granted, not just as an empirical datum, but as an unquestioned standard of cognitive validity.… The question as to who is ultimately right in his knowledge of the world—Bultmann, the electricity-using man in the street, or St. Paul—is … bracketed in this perspective [p. 8].

Secular theologians try “to relativize the religious tradition by means of certain modern ideas,” but “these modern ideas … can themselves be relativized” (ibid.).

Begging the Question

Unfortunately, for the secular theologians, recent studies show that no safe generalizations can be made about what modern man can or cannot believe, to say nothing of what he ought to believe whether he is inside or outside the Church. According to one study, belief in God may run from a low of 40 per cent to a high of 99 per cent within Christian churches (Charles Y. Glock and Rodney Stark, Religion and Society in Tension, 1965). And these variations are reflected even in church leadership. Outside the Church the pattern is equally random. The secular theologian cannot justify his program of desupernaturalization on the grounds that supernaturalism is no longer generally tenable, since his own program for translating supernatural beliefs into psychology or existential anthropology is no less implausible for many others. The fact is that in our pluralistic society, substantial numbers of persons still believe in some kind of a god, more often than not the supernatural God of the Bible. Indeed, the conventions of ordinary speech call for a supernatural theistic God, and while this may sometimes entail a crude anthropomorphism, for most believers it does not. To speak of a “modern world view” that is somehow supposed to be normative simply begs the question and ignores the fact that many world views compete for the allegiance of modern man.

Naturalists Always Stumble

Conservative believers rightly note that biblical supernaturalism has always been a stumbling block for certain men. It was a stumbling block for naturalists of the ancient world no less than it is for naturalists today. But today the proportion of those within the churches who reject the supernatural is considerably larger. And it is upon this foundation that the secular theologians build their popular support, if not the specifics of their systems.

Since the supernatural has now become a stumbling block for so many within the churches, the secular theologian feels he must desupernaturalize the Christian faith in order to preserve its plausibility. He tries to show, for example, that biblical supernaturalism is one of the vestigial remains of a never-say-die “folk religion” peculiar to the vanishing American frontier or to a recrudescent Bible belt. He discovers that “being Biblical” or “being Christian” is really being secular in a special sort of way. But being these things in the ordinary, supernatural New Testament sort of way means living and loving according to God’s will as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and believing that God is all of those things that ordinary New Testament believers take him to be: the Maker of heaven and earth, the One in whom we live and move and have our being, a loving heavenly Father, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the One to whom Jesus prayed and to whom he was obedient unto death, the One who was in Christ as the Saviour of us all. The God of ordinary belief is real, personal, sovereign, and supernatural—whatever else he may be. For he could hardly be less and still be the God of Jesus, or of the first or contemporary Christians.

Moreover, despite the contention of some secular theologians, one can believe all these things without at the same time committing oneself to a non-biblical, Greek metaphysical system, or, for that matter, being “infected” by any of these systems. On the contrary, the metaphysical infections that some secular theologians find in ordinary orthodox belief follow generally from certain gratuitous assumptions that arise from their own enslavement to the philosophies of Heidegger or Feuerbach.

It is in the nature of the case that the secular theologian can only offer his program of accommodation and translation to naturalism as an alternative to biblical supernaturalism. He cannot use it to prove biblical super-naturalism untenable, for he cannot by his own relativistic reasoning show that his program is intrinsically superior as a “reality presupposition.” For the secular theologian, “the entire transcendental frame of reference of the Christian tradition is demolished,” Berger notes. “It is ‘translated into existential anthropology’—a procedure … of the most radical detranscendentalization and subjectivization imaginable” (p. 6). Moreover, radical accommodation of this sort tends to “escalate to the point where the plausibility of the tradition collapses … from within” (p. 13).

The conservative rightly recognizes this. He opposes secular theology not because he is unable or unwilling to consider new ways of understanding his Christian faith but because he rightly sees that “ever-deepening concessions to the reality presuppositions of the people one wants to keep or win … infect the thinking of the tactitians themselves” (ibid.).

Perhaps the most remarkable claim of the secular theologian is his poignant “discovery” that man’s final goal is freedom from God himself. The new gospel is: God died for us so that we can become ourselves. We are now wholly responsible, and we must embrace this responsibility and all the anguish it incurs as the mark of our Christian maturity. We must, for example, achieve the self-understanding that is authentic existence. We must take assertions like “Jesus Christ is Lord and Saviour” to mean something non-supernatural like, “I henceforth understand myself … solely in terms of … my encounter with the kerygma,” as Ogden puts it (Christ Without Myth, p. 114). Any assertion that Jesus Christ is the only door to salvation must become the claim, for Ogden at least, that the non-supernatural God made known in Jesus Christ is the God who is found everywhere as the universal possibility of authentic existence for all men. From this perspective, the kerygma becomes a kind of existential emancipation proclamation. What was possible for the man Jesus, we are told, is possible for any and all of us. Even if there had been no man Jesus, the experience that was possible for the early Christians continues to be possible today.

How Secularists Aim

Secular theologians believe that we are standing at the frontier of a new, post-Christian era and that, like Abraham, we must set our sights by a new faith. To look back to the Christian world of the past is to follow the example of Lot’s wife. Strategy dictates the abandonment of a thoroughly discredited Bible and of irrelevant supernatural beliefs. The man of faith today is not the man who cherishes the words of the Apostle Paul or those of the Fourth Gospel as the Word of God. On the contrary, he is the man who moves into the world in a forthright, secular way to reshape it with the courage and confidence of a man come of age.

The notion of a supernatural God who acts according to his will must be gotten rid of. The word “God” can no longer be allowed to function in a supernaturalistic way. Talk about God must be seen as talk about man; viable theology must rely on existentialism or some other form of humanism rather than biblical supernaturalism. It is held that the Bible can no longer provide “living metaphors,” because its witness is the witness of another age and its propositions the understanding of that age. Hence, not only biblical propositions are rejected but biblical metaphors also. Theology must give way to anthropology even as supernatural Christianity has given way to humanism.

If secular theology is confronted with the charge of atheism, its defense will usually be that of the mystic. God will be pictured as the inward abyss or the encounter. Nothing affirmative will literally be said about him. But one of the main characteristics of Christian belief is that it is grounded on some very definite things that can be said about God and what he is supposed to have done. It is what we do know and can say, not what we do not know or cannot say, that justifies our faith.

Fashionable Subjectivity

The desupernaturalizing of theology has been accompanied by a subjectivizing of truth. There is a positive correlation between a diminishing reference to a sovereign objective, personal God and reference to truth as objective or specifically cognitive. After Kierkegaard and Schleiermacher, it became increasingly fashionable to speak of “truth as subjectivity,” as Kierkegaard did, or to reduce God and revelation to categories of human experience.

When Schleiermacher published his work On Religion—Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers in 1799, he made it a point to separate what he took to be the religious from the factual. He asked whether the religious could be factual in any but a subjective sense, whether such things as the truth claims of the Christian faith were in any way objective in intention as were the truth claims of science, for example. To put it in the words of David Jenkins:

We are to find the reality with which religion has hitherto been concerned in an attitude and policy towards the realities of the universe as known to science and the realities experienced in our dealings with the relations between persons. These exhaust the possibilities of reality that there are; and we are told that it is no longer possible to conceive of, still less to have dealings with, reality which is totally different from and transcendent of these realities. God is out, though godly attitudes may be in [Guide to Debate about God, p. 30].

The secular theologian wields a philosophical razor that says: “Do not multiply entities beyond existential or empirical necessity.” Do not introduce or require a supernatural Being, a Trinity, or anything that is not observable or is not essential to the existential situation. God is a Thou, a Ground, or an Ultimate Concern. We can believe this much about God. But shaving off supernaturalism makes it possible to speak about things like Tillich’s “new being” or Bultmann’s “authentic existence” without reference to God or Christianity at all. We can speak of thous, grounds, concerns, and so on, as aspects of human existence, but we do not even need to refer to them as God.

Thus, the razor devised to save the living God of the encounter from literal supernaturalism actually shaves him off. In this system, the word “God” is made to function as an adverb or an adjective rather than as a noun. We are to speak meaningfully of godly deeds and godly persons, but we may safely reject the biblical “thus saith the Lord.” Thus, what started as a move to preserve the living experience of God finds itself trying to keep that experience alive after God has gone. Subjectivity replaces objective belief and faith.

Note how Buber, whose influence has been enormous, makes his point. To speak of “I” or of “Thou” alone is to speak abstractly, to reduce the I-Thou encounter to an impersonal I-it relationship. But the I-Thou encounter itself is real. God is the I-Thou relationship. Hence, whatever may be the transcendent character of the encounter, it is itself what is meant by “God.” God is not in the encounter. He is the encounter. Interpersonal relations give us what we can now refer to as “God” without having to invoke—that is, to abstract—God. So far as we must use the word “God,” we must use it in this way.

Doctrine, on its part, is pictured as the symbolic vehicle of the encounter. The Scriptures point to, or witness to, revelation. They are not themselves revelation, since propositions about God—who he is, what he is like, what he has done, or what he commands and promises—are not the Word of God. What God says isn’t the Word, we are told, because God communicates only himself. The Word is a new self-understanding or a new dimension of our own existence. There is no supernatural incursion into our lives. Indeed, supernaturalism encourages the mistaken picture of an objective Being who reveals information about himself, his will, his plans, and so on. It is what sterilizes and ossifies the truth to which we should be continuously open and which we experience in the encounters of everyday secular life. For the secular theologian, it is immaterial whether Christian, Buddhist, or any other religion’s propositions and symbols are involved, since what finally counts is human existence alone.

When Faith Departs

The secularist’s alternative to supernatural New Testament faith will survive only so long as vestigial elements of that faith remain intact. When these are gone, the symbols he uses will be emptied of their power, and God will truly be dead for him. New symbols may emerge, but they will not be the symbols of New Testament faith. Nor will they possess their power.

Evangelical belief makes its witness one and the same as the witness of those who first proclaimed the Gospel. “I beg you to stick to the original teaching,” a New Testament writer pleads. “If you do, you will be living in fellowship with both the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:24, Phillips).

The historic Christian Gospel needs no speculative reconstruction. It is the good news for all time. There is no substitute for it. Nor is there any improvement of it. And that is why it is too important to be left to the secular or any other theologians.

- More from Milton D. Hunnex

Editor’s Note …

One morning at seven, the time when I usually pass the White House on the way to my office, I saw a picket already keeping lonely vigil on Pennsylvania Avenue, bearing the message: “All I Want: JUSTICE.”

One mark of our theologically schizoid age is its readiness to hoist aloft one-word slogans for settling all the world’s ills.

The new morality unfurls its banner of Agape and considers all else dispensable. Love is, of course, an indispensable element of Christian ethics. But the specious notion that not divinely revealed principles and patterns of conduct but the immediate situation alone is to be definitive for one’s needs swiftly deteriorates Agape to Eros.

Others bear the banner of Justice alone; for them, Law dissolves Gospel, Justice conceals Agape.

Few today seem to hold together Romans 13 and First Corinthians 13, or Romans 3 and John 3.

But the God of the Bible is the God of justice and of justification.

For that reason, in opening the World Congress on Evangelism, I stressed: “The Christian evangelist has a message doubly relevant to the modern scene: he knows that justice is due to all because a just God created mankind in his holy image, and he knows that all men need justification because the Holy Creator sees us as rebellious sinners.”

Index, Volume XI, October 14, 1966–September 29, 1967

Abbreviations: (A) Article; ABC, American Baptist Convention; (B) Book Review; (CRT) Current Religious Thought; EUB, Evangelical United Brethren; ICCC, International Council of Christian Churches; (L) Letter to the Editor; (LF) A Layman and His Faith; (MW) The Minister’s Workshop; (N) News; NAE, National Association of Evangelicals; NCC, National Council of Churches; NOG, No Other Gospel; NYC, New York City; OEO, Office of Economic Opportunity; (P) Poem; POAU, Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State; (PR) Preacher in the Red; (Q) Quotation; RC, Roman Catholicism; RCDA, Religion in Communist Dominated Areas; SBC, Southern Baptist Convention; US, United States; USAID, U.S. Agency for International Development; USIA, U.S. Information Agency; USSR, Soviet Union; WCC, World Council of Churches.

Book reviews are indexed under author and title of book. Reviewer’s name appears in parentheses. Denominations and related items are listed in broad groupings such as Baptists; Lutherans.

This volume and all preceding volumes are available on microfilm through University Microfilms, Inc., 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107.

The content of CHRISTIANITY TODAY is surveyed and indexed for various interests by the following reference lists:

1. Christian Periodical Index, Christian Librarians’ Fellowship;

2. Index to Religious Periodical Literature, American Theological Library Association;

3. International Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft and Grenzgebiete (International Periodical for Bible Knowledge and Related Subjects), Tübingen, Germany;

4. New Testament Abstracts, Theological Faculty of Weston College, Massachusetts;

5. Religious and Theological Abstracts, Theological Publications, Myerstown, Pennsylvania.

A

Abortion

Anglican evangelicals and (N), 835

Colorado liberalizes laws on (N), 837

debate on easing of laws (N), 779

Patricia Maginnis, teacher of (N), 1252

Washington conference (N), 1252

Achieving Great Things for God, by W. Maxey Jarman (A), 294

Acts, Book of

analyzing apostles’ sermons (A), 152

Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis and (B), 714

new commentaries on (B), 1150

new publication of the charismatic movement (N), 1214

Adams, James L.: Did Churches Win War on Shriver? (N), 670

How the Churches Lobby (A), 849

More Sisters Secularize (N), 1161

Race and Riots Engage United Church (N), 1054

Top Clergy Clash on Viet Nam (N), 829

Adams, Lane

teams with George Beverly Shea for Ontario crusade (N), 285

Aden

last missionaries to leave by September 9 (N), 1218

Adversity

God-sent discipline (LF), 94

B

Babbie, Earl R., et. al.: To Comfort and to Challenge: A Dilemma of the Contemporary Church (Edwin M. Yamuchi) (B), 1206

Back to Bethlehem, by Dwight L. Baker (N), 325

Bagger, Henry H., death of (N), 733

Bakal, Carl: The Right to Bear Arms (David O. Moberg) (B), 110

Baker Book House

warehouse damaged in windstorm (N), 885

Baker, Dwight L., and Genet, Harry W.: Mideast: Weighing the Effects (N), 1007

Baker, Dwight L.: Back to Bethlehem (N), 325

A Christian to Lead Nazareth (N), 577

Digging Solomon’s Wall (N), 927

How A Whole Church Vanished (A), 195

Jerusalem: A Third Temple? (N), 1050

Tensions in Jewry (N), 883

Ball, Charles Ferguson: The Joy of Preaching (MW), 612

Balthasar, Hans Urs von: The God Question and Modern Man (Milton D. Hunnex) (B), 872

Bandy, Leland A., et al.: Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

Banowsky, William S.: Tolerance and Truth (A), 1132

Baptist Bible Fellowship International

Art Wilson re-elected president (N), 126

Baptist Indignation Mounts (E), 355

Baptism

believers’ (A), 688

Bible and (L), 806

Campbellite Controversy (A), 689

conflict over (A), 688

infant, case for (A), 688

key to anabaptism (B), 874

Landmark Movement and (A), 689

Baptists

American Baptist Association

platform planks proposed (N), 1056

American Baptist Convention

declines joining in crusade (N), 229; (E), 355

decrease in baptisms (E), 355

evangelism program to be studied (N), 923

finds areas of agreement with Roman Catholics (N), 780

guidelines for new outreach (B), 920

members attack evangelism secretary (N), 776

need to reverse direction of its National Evangelistic Team (E), 710

Riseling, Richard L., director of international affairs, Division of Christian Social Concern (N), 933

strategy meeting (N), 571

Baptist Church in Canada

looser divorce laws wanted (N), 1009

Baptist Federation of Canada

favoring a Baptist union of Canada (N), 1112

Baptist General Conference

against federal aid (N), 1056

Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland

Payne, Ernest A., retires as general secretary (N), 1118

Russell, David S., new general secretary (N), 1118

Baptist Unity Movement and ecumenism (N), 1157

Berkeley Baptist Divinity School

President R. J. Arnott resigns (N), 467

British Baptist Union Council rejects current merger plans (N), 780

conference canceled (N), 1012

Conservative Baptist Association

reaffirms fundamentalist stand (N), 1056

distinctive tenets of (A), 691

ecumenism and (B), 967

English-language churches in France closed (N), 124

Evangelical Baptist Missions, Inc., plans building (N), 280

General Association of Regular Baptist Churches

protests use of tax money for religious interests (N), 1056

group jailed as Communists in Mexico (N), 975

Hungarian Baptist Seminary has fourteen students (N), 187

in Congo, seek independence of U.S. missions (N), 932

master file on wayward preachers proposed (N), 124

McDormand, Thomas B., general secretary, Atlantic United Baptist Convention of Canada (N), 1063

missionary buys plane with trading stamps (N), 533

open new churches in Vall de Uxo and Madrid, Spain (N), 285

print tracts in Poland (N), 723

Southern Baptist Convention

appoints Negro career missionary (N), 885

cancels South African preaching tour (E), 814

federal school aid debated (N), 279

Florida Baptist Convention to start new college (N), 776

Home Mission Board permitting more than 6% interest on church construction loans (N), 327

Kentucky Southern College freed from church control (N), 671

leaders favor evangelical cooperation (N), 970

membership reaches record high (N), 629

1967 annual meeting of messengers (N), 969

1969 crusade discussed (N), 571

plans revival crusade in South Africa September 1967 (N), 327

problem of federal aid (N), 1053

slow penetration of Northeast (N), 122

social history of Southern Baptists (B), 1049

society and (N), 726

sponsors crusade in Dayton, Ohio, area (N), 1165

thirty pastors to participate in South African crusade (N), 1218

Southern church leaving Negro neighborhood (N), 122

Soviet Russia Baptists urge peace (N), 729

Soviet Union

100th anniversary (N), 1110

reject modernism (N), 116

Swedish weekly raps Judson College (N), 975

Viet Nam church baptizes converts in military life raft (N), 474

Baptists and Christian Unity, by William R. Estep (Thomas B. McDormand) (B), 967

Baptists Scan U. S. Aid, by Edward H. Pitts (N), 279

Barbour, Ian G.: Issues in Science and Religion (Gordon H. Clark) (B), 108

Barnette, Henlee H.: The New Theology and Morality (Milton D. Hunnex) (B), 1098

Barr, James: Old and New in Interpretation: A Study of the Two Testaments (David P. Scaer) (B), 358

Barragy, William J., death of (N), 1012

Barth, Karl

How I Changed My Mind (Geoffrey W. Bromiley) (B), 517

summary of his Church Dogmatics reviewed (B), 1203

Bartsch, H. Elmer

appointed deputy interim chief of Expo ’67 Christian Pavilion (N), 420

Basic Theology of Evangelism, The, by Harold John Ockenga (A), 73

Basic Types of Pastoral Counseling: New Resources for Ministering to the Troubled, by Howard J. Clinebell, Jr. (Charles M. Bryan) (B), 407

Battles, Ford Lewis

to teach at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (N), 1255

Bauer, Paul

Changing the Rules (LF), 1090

Example (LF), 994

Unfolding Destiny (LF), 1044

Wizzards That Peep and Mutter (Andre Bustanaby) (B), 1099

Baum, William W.

to become chancellor of Kansas City Catholic diocese (N), 885

Bavinck, J. H.: The Church Between Temple and Mosque (Anthony A. Hoekema) (B), 872

Bayly, Joseph T.: Congo Crisis (C. Darby Fulton) (B), 221

Be Occupied With Preaching!, by Paul Eppinger (A), 901

Bea, Augustin Cardinal: The Church and the Jewish People (Belden Menkus) (B), 224

Beacon Bible Commentary, Volume V: The Minor Prophets, by Oscar F. Reed, et al. (Bruce K. Waltke) (B). 222

Beardsley, William A. (ed.): America and the Future of Theology (Milton D. Hunnex) (B), 872

Behind the Dim Unknown, ed. by John Clover Monsma (Albert L. Hedrich) (B), 169

Beidler, Barbara

poem on Viet Nam war (N), 576

Believing and Knowing, by Emerson Shideler (Charles C. Ryrie) (B), 520

Bell L. Nelson:

Blood-Bought (LF), 660

Changing the Rules (LF), 1090

Christmas Implications (LF), 260

Controversy (LF), 1138

Danger Ahead (F), 810

Distinctives of the Christian Life (LF), 605

Example (LF), 994

Have You? (LF), 30

Honest with God (LF), 506

How Big Is God? (LF), 212

library at Montreot-Anderson College named in his honor (N), 373; (E), 454

Pitfalls (LF), 1194

Recharging the Batteries (LF), 396

Regeneration and Sanctification (LF), 455

Revelation and Reason (LF), 163

Roger, Over (LF), 764

Steadfast or Wavering (LF), 94

Supernaturalized Citizens (LF), 706

Then and Now (LF), 868

Two Kingdoms (LF), 350

Unfolding Destiny (LF), 1044

Very Personal (LF), 910

A Willful Blackout (LF), 310

Wisdom from Above (LF), 960

Benoit, Jean-Paul

leads meeting of French-speaking evangelicals (N), 932

Benson, Dennis C.

dismissed as Religious Life Director of Waynesburg College (N), 932

Berger, Rabbi Elmer

involvement in social action (E), 161

Bergmann, Gerhard

leader of the NOG movement (N), 675

Reformation 1517 and 1966 (A), 144

Berkhof, Hendrikus: Christ the Meaning of History (John Frederick Jansen) (B), 561

Berkhouwer, G. C.

Calling the Church to the Gospel (CRT), 976

1517–1967 (CRT), 678

Hearing and Doing the Word (CRT), 128

Reviewing Revelation (CRT), 374

Berlin

Albrecht Schonherr heads ecclesiastical affairs in East Zone for Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg (N), 474

Berlin Prepares for World Congress (N), 50

Bersell, Petrus Olof, death of (N), 885

Bethel Circle

beginning of the NOG movement (N), 675

Bethlehem

cooperation between Israel and Jordan at Christmas celebration (N), 325

Bethlehem’s Stall, by Jill Morgan (P), 254

Between Faith and Thought: Reflections and Suggestions, by Richard Kroner (R. Laird Harris) (B), 713

Beyond the Night and the Slough, by Henry Hutto (P), 593

Bible, The

a newsman’s view of the (B), 873

American Orthodox version planned (N), 836

authority of, discussed (L), 304

Beacon commentary evaluated (B), 222

British and Foreign Bible Society shipping Bibles to Eastern Europe (N), 419

changed attitude among Catholics (CRT), 128

Christians must listen to (CRT), 128

common Bible for all Christians? (N), 228

discussion of (CRT), 584

distribution of, restricted in Pennsylvania schools (N), 932

Dutch aid in Bible study to be published (N), 364

effective for conversion (A), 1019

evaluation of the Oxford Annotated Bible (B), 317

Greek and Hebrew culture in the (B), 358

hand-written, produced by Ottawa church (N), 1063

hatred for an infallible (E), 559

honored by Educational Communication Association (N), 236

inerrancy and arrogance (L), 698

inerrancy not agreed on (E), 1043

may be taught as literature in Harlan, Kentucky, high school (N), 285

modified RSV for Catholics (B), 44

new morality and the (panel), 1021

New Testament published in Koho (Viet Nam) dialect (N), 1014

problems of a common (E), 608

quest for a common (E), 452

Unger’s Handbook reviewed (B), 407

Washington Wax Museum on the, to open (N), 578

Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship

Mariano Di Gangi new Canadian Director (N), 677

Bible and the New Morality, The, by Carl F. H. Henry, James Daane, John Warwick Montgomery, and Leon Morris (panel), 1021

Bible in Wax, by William D. Freeland (N), 578

Bible Literature International

new name of Bible Meditation League (N), 1218

Bible Meditation League

changes name to Bible Literature International (N), 1218

Bible, The: Selections from the King James Version, ed. by Roland Mushat Frye (Calvin D. Linton) (B), 168

Bible study

weekly classes (A), 206

‘Bible Study Hour, The’

Benjamin Haden to succeed D. Reginald Thomas (N), 533

Bibletown, U.S.A.

faced with big debts (N), 578

Biblical criticism

C. S. Lewis on (A), 895

Biblical Ethics: A Survey, by T. B. Maston (Reginald Stackhouse) (B), 1006

Biblical World, The: A Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology, ed. by Charles F. Pfeiffer (Francis I. Andersen) (B), 268

Bibliography

Montgomery answers Arnold (L), 173

Billy Graham Faces Berkeley Rebels, by Edward E. Plowman (N), 526

Binns, Walter Pope, death of (N), 326

Biology

contemporary thought and (A), 843

Bird, George L.: Does the Press Fail in Religious News Reporting? (A), 11

Bird, George L., and Dean, Lillian Harris: Christians Can Learn from Communications Theorists (A), 384

Bird, George L.; Mason, David; Henry, Carl F. H.; and Cassels, Louis: Crisis in Communication (panel), 4

Birth control

a new encyclical on? (N), 1157

animal tests ordered on all contraceptive pills (N), 1165

British Family Planning Association gives advice to all applicants over 16 (N), 1118

condemned by Greek Orthodox Church (N), 836

discussion of methods (N), 523

Pope Paul silent (E), 219

‘scoop’ by Catholic paper (N), 829

survey reveals that 53% of American Catholic wives use contraceptives (N), 327

Birth Control: Which Methods Are Moral? (N), 523

Black, Hubert: Good God! Cry or Credo? (Robert Boyd Munger) (B), 458

Black, Matthew, et al. (ed.): The Greek New Testament (Everett F. Harrison (B), 357

‘Black Power’

Negro Baptists see no value in (N), 52

Wright and (N), 1108

‘Black Power’ in Church, by O. Wilson Okite (N), 180

Blackham, H. J.: Religion in a Modern Society (Howard A. Redmond) (B), 771

Blackmore, James H.: A Preacher’s Temptations (Richard P. Buchman) (B). 817

Blackwood, Andrew W., Jr.: The Other Son of Man: Ezekiel/Jesus (Larry L. Walker) (B), 968

Blaiklock, E. M.: Resurrection in New Zealand (N), 674

Blake, Eugene Carson

calls Viet Nam policy ‘danger to human survival’ (N), 837

emphasizes evangelism (E), 265

named Churchman of the Year (N), 780

Blakney, Charles

fined in Southern Rhodesia for ‘anti-police’ sermon (N), 326

Blanshard, Paul: Paul Blanshard on Vatican II (James Leo Garrett) (B), 1102

Blessing of Evangelical Reading, The (E), 97

Bloesch, Donald G.: The Christian Life and Salvation (Walter Mueller) (B), 1149

Blood-Bought, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 660

Blount, F. Nelson, death of (N), 1254

B’nai B’rith

community award to catholic priest (N), 1164

Board, Stephen: Fact and Faith in Modern Theology (A), 847

Böckle, Franz (ed.): Concilium, Volume 15: War, Poverty, Freedom (Edmund A. Opitz) (B), 109

Boettcher, Henry J.: Three Philosophies of Education (John W. Snyder) (B), 1103

Boice, James Montgomery: ‘I Believe in COCU’? (A), 739

Presbyterian Assembly Ratifies Confessional Shift (N), 922

Bolivia

missionary work among the Ayores (B), 274

Bolten, John, Sr.: Listen, Clergymenl (A), 291

Bolton, Charles A.: The Fate of Reformers in the Roman Fold (A), 979

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

‘creative misuse’ of his theology (N), 415

Bonnell, John S.

quoted on ‘action theologies’ (E), 161

Book, The: A Transforming Power (E), 452

Books

Choice Evangelical (A), 437

forthcoming religious (A), 438

new fall entries (A), 1185

publishers’ selections (A), 439

reading for theological literacy (A), 1200

Boutillier, Eugene

ordained by church-labor lobby (N), 671

Bowman, Locke W., Jr.: Straight Talk About Teaching in Today’s Church (Edward L. Hayes) (B), 1002

Box, Marquita: Texas Tilt: Nuns in School (N), 116

Boyd, Ann S.: The Devil with James Bond (Clyde S. Kilby) (B), 564

Boyd, Malcolm

on the ‘underground church’ (N), 572

Braaten, Carl E.: New Directions in Theology Today, Volume II: History and Hermeneutics (Edward John Cornell) (B), 220

Bratcher, Robert G. (ed.): Today’s English Version of the New Testament (J. Harold Greenlee) (B), 317

Brazil

Pentecostals gain In Brazil (N), 1113

Presbyterian layman arrested for ecumenical activities (N), 780

Brethren in Christ

Arthur M. Climenhaga appointed to administrative bishopric (N), 473

Bricker, Neal

Should one patient die for another? (N), 322

Bright, John: The Authority of the Old Testament (Robert B. Laurin) (B), 1003

Brimigion, Stephen

treasurer of Methodist home missions (N), 126

Bristol Sessions Advance Presbyterian-Reformed Tie, by Robert L. Cleath (N), 1008

British and Foreign Bible Society

sending Bibles to Eastern Europe (N), 419

Brobeck, John R.

on medical science and human life (forum), 379

Bromiley, Geoffrey W.:

Orthodoxy’s Task in an Age of Theological Confusion (A), 748

Who Says the New Testament Is Anti-Semitic? (A), 548

A Year of Mixed Blessings in Church History and Theology (A), 427

Brother Lawrence

interpretation of (B), 1049

Brow, Robert: Religion: Origins and Ideas (James I. Packer) (B), 1005

Brown, Bob W., and Buchanan, Henry A.: Will Protestant Church Schools Become a Third Force? (A), 787

Brown, Colin: Karl Barth and the Christian Message (Fred H. Klooster) (B), 1203

Brown, John Pairman

dismissed from faculty of Church Divinity School of the Pacific (N), 779

Brown, Lillian Brooks, et al.: Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

Brown, M. Judy

resigns as headmistress of Stony Brook Girls’ School (N), 975

Brown, Robert McAfee: The Ecumenical Revolution (Bruce Shelley) (B), 1259

Brown, Sam W.

loses race for presidency of N.S.A. (N), 1218

Browne, Michael: Red Guards: China’s Mini-Mao Revivalists (N), 472

Bruce, F. F.: Noteworthy Advances in the New Testament Field (A), 433

Buchanan, Henry A., and Brown, Bob W.: Will Protestant Church Schools Become a Third Force? (A), 787

Buddhists

in minority in Vietnamese constitutional assembly (N), 60

Building on the Bible, by Vernon C. Grounds (A), 201

Bullitt, William C.

on Woodrow Wilson (N), 320

Bultmann, Rudolf

his theology discussed (E), 306

Burial

Christian (A), 591

Burnett, B. B.

new secretary of the Christian Council of South Africa (N), 284

Burton, Frances H.

marries former Catholic chancellor (N), 419

Bustanoby, Andre: An Open Letter to Jane Ordinary (A), 598

By My Spirit, by Kyung Chik Han (A), 155

C

California

execution of Aaron Mitchell (N), 825

liberalizes abortion law (N), 1058

not to toughen anti-obscenity laws (N), 233

rescue mission boycotted (N), 774

warring labor unions (N), 1108

Call for Evangelical Unity, A (N), 177

Callahan, Daniel (ed.): The Secular City Debate (Don DeYoung) (B), 405

Calling the Church to the Gospel, by G. C. Berkouwer (CRT), 976

Calvin, John

misunderstanding about, cleared away (B), 314

quoted on civil magistrates (A), 1027

research on, undertaken by T. Christie Innes (N), 473

Cameroon

ICCC clergymen expelled (N), 582; 629

schismatic Presbyterian group in (L), 757

Campbellite Controversy

baptism and (A), 689

Campus

problems of (CRT), 1064

Canada

aerialists married at London, Ontario, fair (N), 125

atheism in (B), 664

Baptist union in, wants divorce laws relaxed (N), 1009

Baptists favor a union of Canada (N), 1112

CEA considers character in education (N), 421

centennial crisis (A), 644

centennial issue—see March 31, 1967

Christian Homes, Inc.

not a charitable enterprise (N), 278

Christian pavilion at Expo ’67 (N), 369

church colleges In (B), 667

Church during a century (E), 656

church growth (B), 666

church merger a rocky voyage (N), 880

churches—changing (A), 640

churches during four centuries (B), 666

churches—strengths and weaknesses (A), 637

churchmen plan two new colleges (N), 676

divorce reform in (N), 728

ecumenism in (A), 643

Evangelical Fellowship meets (N), 721

evangelical renaissance in? (E), 865

evangelistic frontiers (A), 651

Expo ’67

and ecumenism (E), 267

description of (N), 773

first nun in civil service post (N), 125

Ford crusade in (N), 51

‘idea of God no longer acceptable’ (CRT), 734

Kulbeck elected president of Canadian Church Press (N), 533

Logan-Vencta, John, new moderator of Presbyterian Church (N), 975

Margaret Avison’s poetry (A), 653

Mennonites leave Peace River for Bolivia to escape modern pressures (N), 1218

missionary outreach of churches (A), 648

Montreal court invalidates disinheritance clause in Jewish will (N), 236

national medal inscribed with Hebrews 11:16 (N), 975

Opperman plans Christian center for Toronto (N), 882

Ottawa church produces hand-written Bible (N), 1063

Paisley urges boycott of WCC (N), 882

population by ethnic groups (A), 635

Presbyterian Church, annual meeting (N), 1009

protest against Ramsey (N), 121

Queen Elizabeth attends celebration (N), 1052

radio station represses clergy comment on liquor laws (N), 837

Richmond College

evangelicals in a dilemma (N), 1162

Roman Catholic Church

bishops not to oppose new laws on divorce (N), 777

releases new Christmas stamp (N), 60

religions in (A), 636

secularism in (CRT), 1016

Templeton withdraws from political race in Ontario (N), 284

theological climate in (A), 646

United Church of Canada

advocates divorce (E), 560

plans five ecumenical training centers (N), 975

reports first membership drop (N), 975

to appoint 40 new missionaries (N), 777

to publish ecumenical magazine (N), 124

unity in (N), 1211

Canada Celebrates Its Centennial (E), 635

Canada: Evangelical Pallor, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 721

Canada Maps Divorce Reform, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 728

Canada: Missions Upsurge, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 777

Canada’s Religions (chart), 636

Canadian Church on Divorce (E), 560

Canadian Churches, The, by James R. Mutchmof (A), 637

Canadian Churchmen Plan Two New Colleges (N), 676

Canadian Council of Churches

organizational changes (N), 321

Canadian Council Revamps, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 321

Canadian Merger: Rocky Voyage, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 880

Canadian Unity—In and Out of Church, by William Fitch (N), 1211

Cancer

Seventh-day Adventists and (N), 180

Capelleveen, Jan J. van: Catholic Catechism Cataclysm (N), 184

Costly Apartheid (N), 1012

Europe in a Changing Mood (A), 383

Germany: The New Resistance (N), 675

Kirchentag: Left to the Left (N), 1056

Learning in Splitting (N), 1161

Soup with a Fork? (N), 364

The Old Country Has Changed (N), 1158

Capon, Robert Farrar: An Offering of Uncles: The Priesthood of Adam and the Shape of the World (James W. Sire) (B), 769

Captive, by Gloria Maxson (P), 342

Carroll, Edward

chosen as USIA religion advisor (N), 671

Cornell, Edward John, death of (E), 814; (N), 836

Carter, Pat H.: Missionary, Come Home? (A), 985

Cassels, Louis

wins Religious Newswriters Association’s Supple Award (N), 1118

Your Bible (John H. Kromminga) (B), 873

Cassels, Louis; Bird, George L.; Mason, David; and Henry, Carl F. H.: Crisis in Communication (panel), 4

Cassels, Louis, et al.: Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

Casting Lots for Jerusalem (E), 1093

Castonguay, Sister Therese

first nun in Canadian civil service (N), 125

Catholic Catechism Cataclysm, by Jan J. van Capelleveen (N), 184

Catholic Dilemma: Control Versus Conscience, by William D. Freeland (N), 826

Catholic Press Association

honors John Reedy of Ave Maria (N), 933

Catholics Battle GOP on School Aid, by William D. Freeland (N), 884

Caton, B. J.: Spare a Hallowed Landmark? (N), 414

Caudill, Herbert

eye operation in Cuba (N), 721

released from Cuban prison (N), 284; 363

Celibacy

policy reaffirmed by Pope Paul (N), 1052

Census

no religious preference question to be asked in 1970 (N), 327

Centennial Crisis, The, by Leighton Ford (A), 644

Central Evangelical Concerns (E), 266

Central Intelligence Agency

controversy over secret funds (N), 623

educational integrity and the (E), 560

Century Bible, The: The Gospel of Luke, ed. by E. Earle Ellis (Stanley D. Toussaint) (B), 1104

Ceylon

largest crusade in Colombo history held by Asian Evangelists Commission (N), 236

Methodists veto merger attempt (N), 124

Chaffee, Roger, death of (N), 525

Chafin, Kenneth

Help! I’m a Layman (Robert L. Cleath) (B), 108

Let’s Escape ‘The Religious Ghetto’ (Q), 36

Challenge and Response: A Protestant Perspective of the Vatican Council, ed. by Warren A. Quanbeck (Charles A. Bolton) (B), 716

Challenge to Ecumenical Politicians, A, By Carl F. H. Henry (A), 1171

Chalmers, William G.

new president of University of Dubuque (N), 1015

Chandler, Ralph C.

secretary for international affairs, U.P. Office of Church and Society (N), 885

Chandler, Russell

Demonstrating Against Death (N), 825

New Look at Abortion (N), 1247

Sour Grapes in California (N), 1108

Change and Habit: The Challenge of Our Time, by Arnold J. Toynbee (Clifford M. Drury) (B), 356

Changes in the Scofield Reference Bible, by Harold Lindsell (B), 711

Changing Church, The, by Ian S. Rennie (A), 640

Changing the Pace (E), 999

Changing the Rules, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 1090

Chaplaincy

Connett named Chaplain of the Year (N), 582

Roman Catholic new chief of Army chaplains (N), 1164

increased call for Methodist chaplains (N), 124

Viet Nam casualties (N), 1012

Character

determines behavior (LF), 1244

Character, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 1244

Character in the Classroom, by Reginald Stackhouse (CRT), 421

Charity

admission price to fund-raising events not tax-deductible (N), 1218

Chase, Waldo Farrington, death of (N), 126

Chavez, Jose

crippled by gunshot from youth gang battle (N), 326

Chicago

‘reconciliation’ center run by Protestant and Catholic monks (N), 124

Roman Catholics launch voluntary campaign for non-discrimination (N), 419

Child Development Group

promised more money from OEO (N), 419

Child Development Group of Mississippi

receives federal aid (N), 530

Chile

Protestants in Santiago demonstrate for church-state separation (N), 371

China

Anglican and Methodist leaders imprisoned (N), 582

Far East Broadcasting Co. plans research center (L), 1135

Indonesian Muslim charges Red Guards with murder of Chinese Muslims (N), 420

Choice Evangelical Books of the Year (list), 437

Chol language

NT in—story of (A), 1020

Christ and His Church, by Marcus Loane (booklet), at 957

Christ the Meaning of History, by Hendrikus Berkhof (John Frederick Jansen) (B), 561

Christ-Janer, Arland

new president of Boston University (N), 420

Christi Matri Rosarii

Pope Paul’s fourth encyclical (N), 49

Christian and Missionary Alliance higher education in the (N), 924

Christian ‘Bonanza’ in Bucharest?, by David E. Kucharsky (N), 178

Christian burial (A), 591

Christian Campus Report: 1967, by William Fitch (N), 1162

Christian Church and the Old Testament, The, by Arnold A. van Ruler (Ronald Youngblood) (B), 272

Christian Churches

Restoration Movement and (L), 758

Christian Critique of American Culture, A: An Essay in Practical Theology, by Julian H. Hartt (Melvin G. Williams) (B), 1151

Christian Crusade

denied tax-exempt status (N), 186

Christian Economics: Studies in the Christian Message to the Market Place, by John R. Richardson (Irving Howard) (B), 458

Christian education

‘Faith and Life’ curriculum, shortcomings of (E), 999

federal aid to, harms integration (N), 626

reviews of books by Ferré, Glen, Russell, and Bowman (B), 1002

and Sunday schools (N), 572

Christian Education in Mission, by Letty M. Russell (Edward L. Hayes) (B), 1002

Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy, ed. by Ian T. Ramsey (William W. Bass) (B), 360

Christian Homes, Inc.

not a charitable enterprise (N), 278

Christian life

cannot be separated from salvation (B), 1149

daily devotions a necessity (LF), 396

distinctives of (LF), 605

Christian Life and Salvation, The, by Donald G. Bloesch (Walter Mueller) (B), 1149

Christian living

importance of (LF), 1194

Christian Medical Society

plans health-insurance for missionaries (N), 1014

provides two weeks of free medical care in Mexico (N), 1165

Christian Mission in Theological Perspective: An Inquiry by Methodists, ed. by Gerald H. Anderson (Horace L. Fenton, Jr.) (B), 614

Christian Peace Conference

Hromodka active in (N), 187

leaders meet to plan for third world meeting in Prague in 1968 (N), 285

seeks conference with WCC on settlement in Viet Nam (N), 475

Christian Persuader, The, by Leighton Ford (Robert L. Cleath) (B), 108

Christian Reflections, by C. S. Lewis (Robert L. Cleath) (B), 815

Christian Reformed Church

declines to join WCC (N), 1055

universal salvation debated (N), 1055

Christian Reformed Church, by James Daane (N), 1055

Christian Scholar

NCC quarterly, to stop publication (N), 1165

Christian Scientists

believer held responsible for daughter’s death (N), 836

Christian Times

Don Crawford named first editor (N), 285

Christian to Lead Nazareth, A, by Dwight L. Baker (N), 577

Christian Universe, The, by Eric Mascall (Milton D. Hunnex) (B), 270

Christian university

letters on (L), 600, 662

Christian View on Sex and Marriage, A, by Andrew R. Eickhoff (E. Mansell Pattison) (B), 358

Christianity

basic beliefs of (A), 340

in Red China (N), 472

Christianity Today

T. Christie Innes appointed research associate (N), 473

momentous news stories during 10 years (N), 58

tenth anniversary comments from religion editors (L), 25

Christianity Today on Political Ecumenism (Q), 1197

Christians

citizenship of (LF), 706

destiny of believers (booklet), 309

Christians and Communists: The Vague Encounter (N), 881

Christians at Mass Media Frontiers, by Carl F. H. Henry, Leland A. Bandy, Lillian Brooks Brown Louis Cassels, Ella F. Harllee, David E. Kucharsky, Edmund B. Lambeth, Al Manola, Caspar Nannes, William Willoughby (panel), 1176

Christians Can Learn from Communications Theorists, by George L. Bird and Lillian Harris Dean (A), 384

Christie, Joseph

accuses archbishop of heresy (N), 675

Christmas

contemporary myths of (E), 264

implications of (LF), 260

Jews at (N), 324

Magi beside the crib (P), 301

National Cathedral publishes cards for (N), 321

remembering our service men at (E), 308

theological grinches steal (E), 306

Christmas Implications, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 260

Christmas Message and Contemporary Myths, The (E), 264

Christopher II, death of (N), 1119

Chukovsky, Kornei

author of Russian book of Bible stories (N), 780

Church

call to repentance of the (A), 747

Christ and His Church (booklet), at 957

contributions to (N), 229

creative use of mass media (Q), 36

early Christians on fire (Trueblood) (B), 518

ecumenical politicians and the (A), 1171

in Communist China (B), 1046

Küng’s new study of the (CRT), 976

must recover lost assurances of faith (A), 693

nation and, in the future (forum), 379

nature of (A), 982

Old Testament and the (B), 272

population outpaces growth of (N), 416

politics and the (A), 743

press and the (A), 8

relief efforts dwindle (N), 418

secularization of, during the past decade (N), 59

social concern and (panel), 683

‘underground church’ exists (N), 572

unity of (A), 983

urban problems (B), 457

when does it fail? (E), 307

whither the? (LF), 555

who speaks for the? (E), 914

Church and Its Ecumenical Calling, The (E), 453

Church and Social Concern, The, by Carl F. H. Henry, Clarence Cranford. George Davis, and Edward L. R. Elson (panel), 683

Church and Society

defense of WCC on (A), 853

Church and state

American Jewish Congress reports 32 religious liberty lawsuits pending at beginning of 1967 (N), 475

Amesbury, Massachusetts, clergy ask school board to keep Wednesday night free for church activities (N), 419

Anabaptist view (A), 990

Augsburg Publishing House makes voluntary tax payment (N), 780

Bavarian voters to decide fate of state-supported religious schools (N), 1165

church groups testify on behalf of federal fair-housing law (N), 1218

church used for sectarian ends (A), 944

critique of the ‘Political Gospel’ (A), 743

during and after the settling of America (A), 1229

during the past decade (N), 58

Hawaii votes transportation subsidies for parochial school pupils (N), 1165

Kentucky attorney general approves Bible as literature course in Harlan high school (N), 285

Kingdom of God and (A), 743

Lowell’s Embattled Wall reviewed (B), 272

Lutheran Church of Hungary announces new code for co-existence with government (N), 372

Montreal court bars disinheritance on religious grounds (N), 236

passing out Scripture portions termed ‘littering’ (N), 188

Polish government threatens to close six Catholic seminaries (N), 372

priest to direct anti-poverty agency in New Mexico (N), 975

Protestant reformers and the civil magistrate (A), 1026

Protestants in Chile protest Roman Catholic teachings in public schools (N), 371

reinforcing the wall (A), 988

restrictions on school aid (N), 278

Texas dispute over teaching nuns resolved (N), 733

U.S. government restricts Southern Baptists in South Africa (N), 780

U.S. Treasury blocks Quaker aid to North Vietnam (N), 533

Wisconsin approves public busing for parochial schools (N), 780

Church and the Jewish People, The, by Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. (Belden Menkus) (B), 224

Church Between the Centuries, A (E), 656

Church Between Temple and Mosque, The, by J. H. Bavinck (Anthony A. Hoekema) (B), 872

Church construction

new construction drops 4% from 1966 level (N), 1218

‘tight money’ hampers (N), 368

Church Grows in Canada, The, by Douglas J. Wilson (Donald C. Masters) (B), 666

Church growth

high cost of (table), 544

Church history

books of 1966 (A, 427

Church Leaders Put the Squeeze on Kodak (E), 763

Church lobbying (A), 849

Church of the Brethren

laments Viet Nam war (N), 1055

Church of the Nazarene

Earl Huston, Jr., excommunicated for speaking in tongues (N), 371

Church of England

in Australia

may be renamed Anglican Church of Australia (N), 236

Philip N. W. Strong elected primate (N), 60

Church of God

Homer A. Tomlinson crowned ‘King of All the Nations of Men’ (N), 126

Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)

merges with the Nat. Assoc. of the Church of God (N), 1057

Church Must First Repent, The, by Vance Havner (A), 747

Church Plan Commission

Joseph C. Grandlienard, new director (N), 1164

Church, Politics, and the NCC, The (E), 35

Church schools

Protestant (L), 903

third force in Protestantism? (A), 787

Church taxes

Supreme Court refuses to hear case (N), 123

Church Without God, A, by Ernest Harrison (J. Berkley Reynolds) (B), 664

Church World Service

gets $1 million worth of surplus property from AID (N), 236

providing funds for India and Viet Nam (N), 122

Churches Active in ’66 Ballot Battles (N), 232

Churches of Christ

exodus of members (N), 628

only major religious group without organization (N), 628

prepares New Testament commentary (N), 733

Churches Open Drive to Share U.S. Wealth (N), 370

Churchmen Bid for Public Funds (N), 625

Churchmen Look at Communism, by Carl F. H. Henry, Charles W. Lowry, Daniel Poling, D. Elton Trueblood (A), 948

Church’s Missionary Outreach, The, by Leslie Hunt (A), 648

Church’s Worldwide Mission, The, ed. by Harold Lindsell (James D. Belote) (B), 405

CIA—See Central Intelligence Agency

Circulation policy

letters on new (L), 757

new policy (E), 610

Civil magistrate

Protestant reformers and the (A), 1026

Civil rights

Disciples of Christ and (N), 52

Groppi joins without leaders (E), 1257

Kentucky presbytery urges open housing legislation (N), 932

King on (B), 1262

Martin Luther King, Jr., to write book on strategy (N), 373

Moynihan Report (B), 1260

Nashville riots (N), 825

Negro Baptists and (N), 52

New York congregation backs pastor’s activities (N), 933

riots in Milwaukee (N), 1250

Civilization

‘we are sick’ of present situation (E), 1258

Clark, Gordon H.

on the church and the nation (forum), 379

The Trouble with Humanism (A), 794

Clark, Howard H.

moves official residence to Toronto (N), 1118

Clarkson, E. Margaret: First Frost (P), 197

New Voice in Christian Verse (A), 653

Clarkson, Helen S.: Meteor (P), 1035

Cleath, Robert L.

Bristol Sessions Advance Presbyterian-Reformed Tie (N), 1008

Communication and Christian Witness: Ten Top Books of the Decade (B), 40

Converse Ideas on Conversion (N), 831

Intriguing New Titles in the Field of Religion (A), 1815

More Fuel for Flaming Issues in Forthcoming Religious Books (A), 438

Read Your Way to Theological Literacy (A), 1200

Three Hours with the Bible (N), 55

Clergy

D. P. McGeachy recommends that pastors own their own homes (N), 474

picket NYC Protestant Council dinner honoring President Johnson (N), 186

Clifford, Alec: Argentine Centenary (N), 1011

Climenhaga, Arthur M.

resigns as president of NAE to take post with Brethren in Christ Church (N), 473

Clinebell, Howard J., Jr.: Basic Types of Pastoral Counseling: New Resources for Ministering to the Troubled (Charles M. Bryan) (B), 407

Clowney, Edmund P.: A Critique of the ‘Political Gospel’ (A), 743

COCU

arguments for and against (L), 805

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church joins (N), 568

demonstrations at Cambridge sessions (E), 867

do we need consultation against? (A), 694

merger discussion (N), 568

new probable member church (N), 879

‘Plan of Union’ to be written (N), 878

‘Principles of Church Union’ analyzed (A), 739

questions on the advisability of (A), 694

Code Name Sebastian, by James L. Johnson (Clifford Edwards) (B), 919

Codex Bezae

and the Acts (B), 714

Cody, John

new cardinal (N), 975

Coffin, William Sloane

organizes Committee for Draft Resistance (N), 1118

Cogley, John

to resign as religion editor of New York Times (N), 326

Cold War, The

during the past decade (N), 58

Cole, William Graham: The Restless Quest of Modern Man (David A. Redding) (B), 619

Colleges and universities

Abilene Christian College

administered by committee during president’s illness (N), 326

Anderson College

denied federal aid (N), 416

Anglican and Catholic colleges in Ireland merge (N), 837

Baylor

students organize computerized “Date-Mate” service (N), 476

Benedict College

Payton, Benjamin F., new president (N), 885

Blue Mountain College

complies with Civil Rights Act (N), 780

Bob Jones University

loses federal aid (N), 1116

Paisley visits (N), 825

Boston University

Arland Christ-Janer new president (N), 420

Catholic University

dispute at (N), 826

Christian beliefs on secular campuses (E), 998

Christian college on a university campus (A), 494

Christian university

letters pro and con (L), 662

construction of private colleges on the rise (N), 1218

drama in (CRT), 477

Drew University

President Oxnam’s ouster demanded (N), 780

Duke University

receives most federal aid among Protestant organizations (A), 1077

Eastern Baptist College

President Thomas B. McDormand to retire (N), 188

Eisenhower College

postpones opening until 1968 (N), 1163

Erskine College

Wightman, Joseph, installed as president (N), 933

existential absurdity on campus (A), 797

Florida Baptists to start new college (N), 776

Fordham University

names Marshall McLuhan to a chair in humanities (N), 413

Gordon College

Richard Gross named dean (N), 780

Kentucky Southern College

freed from church control (N), 671

Loyola University

most federal aid for Catholics (A), 1077

Luther Rice College

no recognition yet from any Baptist Convention (N), 1163

Lutherans withdraw support of chairs of religion (N), 732

Malone College

Reapsome, James W., chaplain and religion professor (N), 1219

Maryland Baptist College

names C. Eugene Kratz as first president (N), 60

Marymount Manhattan College

Gilbert, Rabbi Arthur, to teach religion and sociology (N), 1255

Maryville College

Stine, Donald M., to head Bible and Christian education department (N), 975

Massey University, New Zealand

E. P. Y. Simpson to teach history (N), 373

Mercer University

Thomas J. Holmes to head public relations (N), 188

Meredith College

hires Catholic priest as social-service advisor (N), 326

Mississippi College

rejects all federal aid (N), 416

Montreat-Anderson College

names new library for L. Nelson Bell (N), 373

Moody Bible Institute

plans new dormitory (N), 125

need for a Christian university (A), 485

New College

Hamilton, William, to teach Bible (N), 975

Notre Dame University

glossolalia at (N), 880

Nyack Missionary College

teachers’ defense of (L), 23

Oral Roberts University dedicated (N), 778

Oxford University

Van Buren, Paul M., to lecture there (N), 1118

Pentecostals plan Latin American university (N), 974

Philadelphia College of Bible

wins regional accreditation (N), 974

religion on the campus (A), 483

RC college control by laity (N), 467

Richmond College

evangelicals in a dilemma (N), 1162

Rochester University

Colgate-Rochester Divinity School linked with (N), 1116

St. Louis University

dean bars Pike and Carmichael from lecture series (N), 975

St. John’s University

faces loss of accreditation (N), 327

Seattle Pacific College

student publication not a ‘tool of public relations’ (E), 35

Stetson University

Geren, Paul F., new president (N), 1255

students protest dehumanization (A), 490

study of suicides in (N), 125

Taylor University

Pascoe, Peter, new pastor (N), 1164

two new church colleges planned for Canada (N), 676

University of Alberta

Charles Davis, to teach religion (N), 1117

University of Basel, Switzerland

Cullmann, Oscar, new rector (N), 1164

University of Colorado

erroneous statement by CHRISTIANITY TODAY (L), 176

University of Dubuque

President Gaylord M. Couchman resigns (N), 188

William G. Chalmers, new president (N), 1015

University of Mississippi

Herron, Orley S., to teach education (N), 933

University of Pittsburgh

to offer cooperative graduate religion program with Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (N), 236

University of Rochester

students petition for more religion courses (N), 476

University of Wisconsin

results of religious poll (N), 236

Upland College

auctions property (N), 186

Valparaiso University

to open a nursing school in 1968 (N), 236

Vanderbilt

Beverly A. Asbury new chaplain (N), 126

Stanley W. Olson becomes medical professor (N), 420

Wake Forest College

gets $1 million library endowment (N), 836

Scales, James Ralph, new president (N), 885

Waterloo (Ontario) Lutheran University

President William J. Villaume resigns (N), 1015

Waynesburg College

Benson, Dennis C., dismissed (N), 932

Western Kentucky University

Robert Mounce, first professor of religious studies (N), 1063

Wheaton College

former president Edman suffers heart attack (N), 326

Hook, Phillip, named dean of students (N), 780

Robert deVette appointed admissions director (N), 237

William Carey College

signs civil-rights pledge (N), 416

Yale University

Woodstock College to affiliate with (N), 1116

Yeshiva University

gets most federal support (A), 1077

College, Hospital Cut Church Ties, by Douglas N. Kane (N), 671

Collins, Henry

reports flop of trading stamp inducement to church attendance (N), 236

Colloquy

projected quarterly of the Society for Religion in Higher Education (N), 1165

Colonialism and Christian Missions, by Stephen Neill (Harold Lindsell) (B), 315

Colorado

first state to liberalize abortion laws (N), 837

Coltrane, John, death of (N), 1119

Colwell, David G.

advocates drafting of clergy (N), 470

new pastorate in Seattle (N), 1218

Come, Arnold B.

new president of San Francisco Theological Seminary (N), 533

Commentaries

Old Testament

books of 1966 (A), 429

Committee of Concern

rebuilds burned Negro church in Mississippi (N), 583

Committee of Conscience Against Apartheid

cites protest against bank loans to South Africa (N), 327

Committee for Draft Resistance

organized by William Sloane Coffin (N), 1118

Common people

importance of (A), 598

Communication—See October 14 issue

Communication

changes in theories of (A), 384

crisis in (panel), 3 new era for Christian (A), 3

ten top books of the decade (B), 40

Communication and Christian Witness: Ten Top Books of the Decade, by Robert L. Cleath (B), 40

Communion

and Vatican Council II (A), 1232

chalice and health (N), 1013

Protestant-Catholic intercommunion? (A), 1232

recommendations by Episcopal Church and Carl Tiller (N), 677

toward unity in (N), 972

Communism

China

and NCC (E), 35

Red Guards in (N), 472

church in Iron Curtain countries (B), 1046

churchmen look at (A), 948

danger of a new movement (A), 1067

in Cuba (CRT), 534

membership not unconstitutional (E), 510

new theology welcomed (E), 354

phase of the world revolution (forum), 381

religion under (E), 760

Communists

lose control of municipal council in Nazareth, Israel (N), 327

meetings with Chrisians in Europe (N), 881

riots in Honk Kong (N), 974

Comprehensive Handbook of Christian Doctrine, by John Lawson (Gordon R. Lewis) (B), 770

Compassion Gap in Viet Nam (N), 720

Concilium, Volume 15: War, Poverty, Freedom, ed. by Franz Böckle (Edmund A. Opitz) (B), 109

Concilium, Volume 23: The Pastoral Approach to Atheism, ed. by Karl Rahner, S.J. (Frank Sargent) (B), 1105

Conference on Church and Society, analysis of (A), 499

Confession

necessary for power in prayer (LF), 506

Confessions

eight confessions discussed (A), 244

Conflict Over Baptism, The, by David P. Scaer and Wayne E. Ward (A), 688

Confronting the Impasse in Evangelism, by David E. Kucharsky (A), 542

Congo

Baptists ask recognition as independent body (N), 932

Ephraim Kayumba elected Pentecostal bishop (N), 126

Emile Makesi dies (N), 1113

experiences of Davis family (B), 221

Kinshasa crusade (N), 723

united seminary planned (N), 476

Congo Crisis, by Joseph T. Bayly (C. Darby Fulton) (B), 221

Connett, James A.

named Chaplain of the Year (N), 582

Conscientious objection

NCC statement on (N), 629

Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society

Anderson, Herbert S., general director (N), 1015

Constantine

church conflicts under (A), 944

Donatists under (A), 944

will of emperor became the law (A), 945

Containment and Change, by Carl Oglesby and Richard Schaull (Edward A. Opitz) (B), 917

Controversy, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 1138

Converse Ideas on Conversion, by Robert L. Cleath (N), 831

Conversion

new dimension of living (A), 1019

‘not work of missions’ (E), 1198

supernatural change (A), 1020

WCC (U.S.) response ‘paralysis’ (N), 831

Converted Church, The: From Escape to Engagement, by Paul L. Stagg (Harold Lindsell) (B), 920

Cook, A. Bramwell

new president of Australian Council of Churches (N), 836

Cook, Enid

leaves Congregationalism (N), 1013

Cooke, Leslie E., death of (N), 629

Coomes, David: From Oberammergau to Britain (N), 883

Cornell, George W.: Religion’s New Entree to the City Room (A), 8

Corvin, R. O.

counsels Chilean Pentecostals on university-building (N), 974

Costello, John M.

to teach at Concordia Theological Seminary (N), 836

Costly Apartheid, by Jan J. Van Capelleveen (N), 1012

Couchman, Gaylor M.

resigns as president of the University of Dubuque (N), 188

Counseling (B), 819

experiences of ten ministers (A), 891

revised model of (B), 407

Council of Protestant Colleges and Universities

Lloyd J. Averill named president (N), 732

Courtier to the Crowd: The Story of Ivy Lee and the Development of Public Relations, by Ray Eldon Hiebert (David E. Kucharsky) (B), 112

Cranford, Clarence, et al.: The Church and Social Concern (panel), 683

Crawford, Don

named first editor of new magazine, Christian Times (N), 285

Creation

contemporary thought and (A), 843

Creeds

divisive and anti-ecumenical (N), 879

Crime

climate of fear because of (E), 709

President’s crime commission report (E), 867

Criminal code

reform or retreat? (E), 867

Criminal Code, The: Reform or Retreat? (E), 867

Crisis in Communication, by Carl F. H. Henry, Louis Cassels, George L. Bird, and David Mason (panel), 4

Criswell, W. A.: Preaching Through the Bible (MW), 262

Critique of the ‘Political Gospel’, A, by Edmund P. Clowney (A), 743

Cross

and the atonement (A), 594

consuming passion with Paul (A), 592

Cross in Canada, The: Vignettes of the Churches Across Four Centuries, ed. by John S. Moir (Clarence M. Nicholson) (B), 666

Crowther, Clarence E.

deported from South Africa (N), 1063

Cuba

Church in (N), 362

Council of Evangelical Churches meets (N), 363

eye operation on Herbert Caudill (N), 721

hope for imprisoned missionaries (N), 882

Marxism accentuates the gulf between Christianity and atheism (CRT), 534

Presbyterian denomination created in (N), 533

Southern Baptist missionary Herbert Caudill released from prison (N), 284

Cuba Revisited, by J. D. Douglas (CRT), 534

Cullmann, Oscar

new rector, University of Basel, Switzerland (N), 1164

Culver, Elsie Thomas: Women in the World of Religion (Margaret Johnston Hess) (B), 715

Culver, Maurice E.

to resume missionary work in Southern Rhodesia (N), 1015

Curran, Charles E.

fired and promoted (N), 826

Cushing, Richard Cardinal

recalls political activity in West Virginia (N), 1218

Cycle of Prayer, The, by Ralph A. Herring (C. Ralston Smith) (B), 770

Cyprus

religious groups seek understanding through informal talks (N), 372

Czechoslovakia

Christian leaders in new positions (N), 187

D

Daane, James: Christian Reformed Church (N), 1055

Making Non-Pacifism Official (N), 1214

Daane, James, et al.: The Bible and the New Morality (panel), 1021

Dahunsi, E. A.

predicts permanent split in Nigeria (N), 975

Dag Hammarskjöld: The Statesman and His Faith, by Henry P. Van Dusen (Sherwood E. Wirt) (B), 664

Dohlan, K. H.

Indonesian Muslim charges Chinese Red Guards with murder of Muslims (N), 420

Dallas, Texas

Catholic priest preaches at Northlake Baptist Church (N), 326

Danger Ahead, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 810

Dangerous Christ, The, by M. Jackson White (A), 243

Dangers of a Giant Church, by Carl E. Glasow (A), 694

Danker, Frederick W.: Laughing with God (A), 344

Darwinism

answers to article on (L), 954

contemporary thought and (A), 843

letters on (L), 993

Darwinism and Contemporary Thought, by A. E. Wilder Smith (A), 843

Davidson, Neville

to retire next spring as minister of Glasgow Cathedral (N), 284

Davies, Winifred, death of (N), 1012

Davis, Charles

Congo experiences (B), 221

Jesuit theologian leaves RC Church (E), 401; (N), 415

to teach at University of Alberta (N), 1117

Davis, Clair: Using the State for Sectarian Ends (A), 944

Davis, George: What I’ve Learned in Counseling a Person Facing Serious Surgery (A), 891

Davis, George, et al.: The Church and Social Concern (panel), 683

Davis, J. Paschall

admits use of anti-poverty funds for ‘liberation school’ in Nashville (N), 1164

Day, Duane L., and Moore, Richard E.: Urban Church Breakthrough (William Edmund Bouslough) (B), 457

Deacon Has a Wife, The, by Elva McAllaster (P), 434

Dead and the Undying, The, by Lon Woodrum (A), 597

Dean, Lillian Harris, and Bird, George L.: Christians Can Learn from Communications Theorists (A), 384

Dear Bargain-hunters, by Eutychus III (L), 860

Dear Christmas Shoppers, by Eutychus III (L), 256

Dear Citizens of Secular City, by Eutychus III (L), 1190

Dear Coffee-sippers, by Eutychus III (L), 347

Dear Demonstrative and Non-demonstrative Peace-lovers, by Eutychus III (L), 804

Dear Foes of Tars and Nicotine, by Eutychus III (L), 991

Dear Forensic Friends, by Eutychus III (L), 600

Dear Jazz Buffs, by Eutychus III (L), 390

Dear Job-Seekers, by Eutychus III (L), 696

Dear Keepers of the Flame, by Eutychus III (L), 1134 903

Dear Members of the Old Breed, by Eutychus III (L),

Dear Saints and Sinners, by Eutychus III (L), 511

Dear Seers-through-a-glass-darkly, by Eutychus III (L), 551

Dear Slogan-Lovers, by Eutychus III (L), 1036

Dear Sons of the Rising Superchurch, by Eutychus III (L), 1085

Dear Subjects of the Kingdom, by Eutychus III (L), 662

Dear Televiewers, by Eutychus III (L), 447

Dear Verbal Militiamen, by Eutychus III (L), 303

Deardon, Archbishop John

to attend Synod of Bishops in Rome (N), 932

Death

when is a patient dead? (N), 1161

Death-of-God

waning tumult (A), 856

‘Death of God’ Becomes More Deadly, by John Warwick Montgomery (CRT), 286

Debate on God, A, by Richard Philbrick (N), 623

Debilitating Revolt, The (E), 1040

Deckers, Jeanine

former “Singing Nun” returns to lay life (N), 187

Decline of Public Morality (E), 711

Dedicating a $16 Million Campus, by Bill Rose (N), 778

Defense of WCC on Church and Society, by Eugene L. Smith (A), 853

Degree Mill to Orphan Mill, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 278

Dehoney, Wayne: African Diary (George A. Dunger) (B), 113

to pastor Louisville’s Walnut Street Church (N), 473

De Jong, Spencer

to direct World Vision’s Indonesian orphanages (N), 1219

Delmarva Dialog

disputes over editorial policy (N), 1063

Delta Ministry

cross burned at headquarters (N), 780

Democracy

Reformation major source of (A), 1124

Demonism

growing phenomenon (E), 510

Satanic wedding (N), 529

Demonism on the March (E), 510

Demonstrating Against Death, by Russell Chandler (N), 825

Dennard, Frederick E.

heads Harlem counseling center (N), 124

DePauw, Gommar

protests subordination to Cardinal Shehan (N), 371

Des Moines, Iowa

Council of Churches plans urban-renewal project (N), 476

deVette, Robert

appointed admissions director at Wheaton (N), 237

de Vries, Egbert (ed.): Man in Community (C. Gregg Singer) (B), 816

Devil with James Bond, The, by Ann S. Boyd (Clyde S. Kilby) (B), 564

Dewart, Leslie: The Future of Belief: Theism in a World Come of Age (David A. Redding) (B), 562

De Young, Don: What I’ve Learned in Counseling a Prospective Bride and Groom (A), 893

Dibelius, K. F. Otto death of (N), 528

Dickson, James Ira, death of (N), 1012

Did Churches Win War on Shriver?, by James L. Adams (N), 670

Did Success Spoil American Protestantism? by George M. Marsden (A), 1228

Didier. James W.: Secular Man? (A), 1075

Diel Carl Gustav

named bishop of the Tamil Church of India (N), 237, 533

Di Gangi, Mariano

new Canadian Director of Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship (N), 677

Digging Solomon’s Wall, by Dwight L. Baker (N), 927

Dirksen, Senator Everett M.

prayer amendment discussed (E), 959

proposes new prayer bill (N), 471

Disciples in Dallas, The, (N), 52

Disciples of Christ

Dallas annual meeting (N), 52

open letter requests greater stewardship of members (N), 581

opposition to restructure proposals (N), 885

and Viet Nam (N), 49

Disinherited, The (E), 1146

Disney, Walt

death of (E), 355

Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis, by William Stringfellow (Charles E. Hummel) (B), 221

Distinctives of the Christian Life, by L. Nelson Bell (LF). 605

Distortion of New Testament Concepts in Modern Theology, The, by Johannes Schneider (A), 1236

Ditzen, Lowell

marries Eleanor Davies Tydings (N), 373

Divided Mind of Modern Theology, The, by James D. Smart (Carl F. H. Henry) (B), 768

Divorce

Anglican evangelicals and (N), 835

reform in Canada (N), 723

United Church of Canada advocates (E), 560

Dodd and Powell in Perspective (E), 1041

Dodd, Senator Thomas

in perspective (E), 1041

Does the Press Fail in Religious News Reporting?, by George L. Bird (A), 11

Dogma

history of Christian (B), 717

Dogmatic When It Matters, by Eugene F. Klug (A), 592

Dogmatics

‘Reformed Dogmatics’ reviewed (B), 964

Dolbey, Mrs. James

new president of Church Women United (N), 1119

Donotists

protests to Constantine (A), 944

Dorairaj, U. M.

missing from Alwar, India, and feared kidnapped (N), 326

Dore, Arthur

named director of interchurch relations and communications for Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America (N), 236

Douglas, J. D.

Anglican Evangelicals Issue Dramatic Credo (N), 833

Cuba Revisited (CRT), 534

Exposing the Tricks of the Trade (CRT), 1120

Free for All (CRT), 238

Graham TV Saturates Britain (N), 1059

Graham’s Rousing Red Welcome (N), 1109

Hereafter Known as Keele 1967 (CRT), 838

Interchurch Stir in Edinburgh (N), 970

Orthodoxy’s Shaky Citadel (N), 120

Scots on Sex (N), 971

Subtle Pressures Mounting on Cuban Churches (N), 362

These Modern Neros (N), 675

W.C.C.: Dull in the Sunlight (N), 1209

Which Way for Greece? (N), 1208

Down, Jesus, Down (E), 867

Dr. Blake’s Mistaken Emphasis (E), 265

Draft the Clergy? (N), 470

Drama

in colleges and universities (CRT), 477

‘Judas Tree’ (N), 732

Dramatic Development for Evangelical Scholarship (E). 1042

Drane, James F.

loses post for favoring birth control (N), 1117

wins research fellowship at Yale (N), 1255

Drescher, John M.

moderator-elect of Mennonite Church (N), 1255

Drew, Joseph W.

receives award from Southwest Region B’nai B’rith (N), 1164

Dry Socks and Letters from Home (E), 308

duBois, Albert J.

opposes COCU (N), 568

Duffield, G. E. (ed.): John Calvin (’Courtenay Studies in Reformation Theology,’ Vol. I) (Donald J. Bruggink) (B), 314

Duffy, Martin

retained by church despite civil rights activities (N), 933

Dumbfounding, The, by Margaret Avison (David S. Stewart) (B), 665

Dunn, Reginald

new president, Canadian Council of Churches (N), 321

Dürer, Albrecht

‘praying hands’ appear on Canadian Christmas stamp (N), 60

Dynamics of a Decade (N), 58

E

East Germany

denies visas to West German Lutherans (N), 780

Easter

fixing date of (N), 674

Easter Dirge, by McGregor Smith, Jr. (P), 589

Eastman Kodak Company

pressured by Protestant denominations (E), 763

Eberhard, Paul

honored by Educational Communication Association (N), 236

Eckler, A. Ross

removes religious preference question from 1967 cen-

Economics

Pope Paul on (N), 725

sus (N), 327

Ecumenical Bombshell, An (E), 1196

Ecumenical Revolution, The, by Robert McAfee Brown (Bruce Shelley) (B), 1259

Ecumenism

ambiguous terminology in (E), 867

Americans ‘quite far behind’ in church mergers (N), 885

among Presbyterians (N), 180

and the Baptist Unity Movement (N), 1157

and the ‘underground church’ (N), 572

answers to Lemmon’s article (L), 1240

Anglican Church of Canada

obstacles to merger with United Church of Canada (N), 230

Anglicans in Ghana approve intercommunion with other segments of proposed national church (N), 372

anti-merger clergymen expelled from Cameroun (N), 582

Athenagoras denies existence of intercommunion with non-Orthodox churches (N), 836

Australian Anglicans request admission to merger talks among Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists (N), 372

Baptists and (B), 967

biblical unity basis of (A), 1131

British Presbyterians and Congregationalists to merge (N), 975

Canadian merger a rocky voyage (N), 880

Catholic, Anglican, and Congregational clergy conduct funeral for Aberfan children (N), 235

Catholic and Anglican schools merge in Ireland (N), 837

Catholic editor asks support from conservative Protestants (N), 677

Catholic priest hired by Baptist college (N), 326

Catholic priest preaches in Dallas Baptist church (N), 326

Ceylon merger attempt fails to pass Methodist assembly (N), 124

Chili Wesleyans and U.S. Pentecostal Holiness Church sign doctrinal agreement (N), 1218

closer ties between Australian and Wisconsin Lutherans (N), 1165

CT on political (E), 1197

doubts on merger (forum), 381

during the past decade (N), 58

Episcopalians discuss intercommunion (N), 677

Ethiopian and Coptic pilgrims clash in Jerusalem (N), 885

EUB Church dissatisfied with merger proposals (N), 574

EUB and Methodists may merge (N), 230

evangelical, discussed (L), 991

evangelicals and (E), 658

evangelist on Rhodes in conflict with state church (N), 187

Expo ‘67 and (E), 267

foreign missions agencies of UP and RC churches unite to produce record and printed matter (N), 475

four denominations in Malawi discuss merger (N), 372

French Protestant Federation encourages Lutheran-Reformed merger (N), 236

German Methodists and EUB’s to participate in U.S. merger (N), 975

Harlem counseling center run by Protestants and Catholics (N), 124

Holy Spirit and (A), 752; (L), 906

in Canada (A), 643

in Great Britain (CRT), 1120

letters in favor of evangelicals (L), 1085

Lutheran student group urges reunion with Rome (N), 1218

Lutherans urge ‘intercommunion’ (N), 183

Mariology and (E), 915

merger discussion (N), 568

Methodist campus groups join inter-denominational organizations (N), 1063

Methodists and EUB may merge (N), 230

Methodists and Roman Catholics discuss the nature of faith and the Holy Spirit (N), 371

Netherlands Catholic and Reformed churches recognize each other’s baptism (N), 1117

Old Catholics in the Netherlands build ties with Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics (N), 371

ordination and (B), 1004

Arnold T. Olson approves Roman Catholic move for common Christian Bible (N), 326

plan of merger between Presbyterian Church, U.S., and Reformed Church in America (N), 524

Pope Paul may address 1968 WCC assembly in Sweden (N), 629

possibility of getting together (A), 1131

Presbyterian churches may unite (N), 122

Presbyterian layman persecuted in Brazil (N), 780

‘Principles of Church Union’ analyzed (A), 739

pro and con (L), 1038

Protestant and Catholic monks open Chicago ‘reconciliation’ center (N), 124

Ramsey’s critique of political (A), 1171

readers respond to appeal (E), 996

Reformed Ecumenical Synod report (E), 453

Regional Church Plan for New York City area projected (N), 677

religious groups on Cyprus seek understanding through informal talks (N), 372

‘revolution’ in the Catholic Church (B), 1259

RC-Orthodox wedding approved (N), 126

Roman Catholic to preach and assist at Presbyterian church (N), 975

Roman Catholics and American Baptists find areas of agreement (N), 780

seven Lutherans to teach this year in Roman Catholic institutions (N), 1116

‘trial’ method (N), 1250

United Church of Canada

obstacles to merger with Anglicans (N), 230

urges joint seminaries for Protestants and Catholics (N), 975

united seminary planned for the Congo (N), 476

unity in Holy Communion? (N), 972

Vatican II caused resentment among Jews (N), 836

Ecumenism and Expo ’67 (E), 267

Ecumenism and the Gift of the Spirit, by Samuel J. Mikolaski (A), 752

Eddleman, Leo, et al.: What’s the Sense of Work? (panel), 1125

Edith Sitwell, by Ralph J. Mills, Jr. (Paul M. Bechtel) (B), 614

Editor’s Comments: The WCC and Socialism (E), 855

Edman, V. Raymond

suffered heart attack in November (N), 326

Education

autonomy for Catholic colleges urged (N), 1116

character more important than knowledge (N), 421

‘child benefit theory’ (A), 788

Christian Studies (E), 508

Christian witness on campus (CRT), 328

Church schools—a force (A), 787

doctorates in theology (A), 790

dual enrollment principle (A), 788

educators endorse plan for Institute for Advanced

federal aid to (A), 1077

increase of independent schools (forum), 380

need for a Christian university (A), 485

religion on the campus (A), 483

school funds face battle (N), 884

teachers’ strikes (E), 1257

three philosophies and (B), 1103

Education for Ministry, by Charles R. Feilding (David W. Kerr) (B), 820

Educational Communication Association

honors film, TV show, and French editor (N), 236

Educational Integrity and the C.I.A. (E), 560

Educators Endorse Institute Plan (E), 508

Edwards, Clifford: Existential Absurdity on the Campus (A), 797

Eickhoff, Andrew R.: A Christian View of Sex and Marriage (E. Mansell Pattison) (B), 358

89th Congress in Capsule (N), 185

Ekola, Giles C., and Mueller, E. W. (ed.): Mission in the American Outdoors (Glenn W. Samuelson) (B), 273

Election Afterthoughts (E), 219

Elements for a Social Ethic, by Gibson Winter (George I. Mavrodes) (B), 966

Elliott, Willis E.

scathing attack on Graham and Henry (N), 320

Ellis, E. Earle (ed.): The Century Bible: The Gospel of Luke (Stanley D. Toussaint) (B), 1104

Elson, Edward L. R., et al.: The Church and Social Concern (panel), 683

Engineer’s Got to Know Where His Hind End Is, The, by Kenneth J. Foreman (A), 800

Embarrassing ‘First’ for the NCC (E), 611

Embattled Wall, by C. Stanley Lowell (Harold John Ockenga) (B). 272

Encountering Truth: A New Understanding of How Revelation as Encounter Yields Doctrine, by Harold E. Hatt (Samuel J. Mikolaski) (B), 616

Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion, ed. by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder (Jakob Jocz) (B), 406

Engel, Meir, death of (N), 1012

Engstrom, Elmer W.

Listen, Clergymen! (A), 292

quoted on science and belief (E), 657

wins William Proctor Prize of the Scientific Research Society (N), 474

Enigma of Adam Clayton Powell, The (N), 466

Enlow, David R.

new associate editor of Alliance Witness (N), 1164

Episcopalians

bishop advocates papal primacy (N), 972

Bishop Pike and (E), 1147

consider heresy trial of Pike (N), 122

Diocese of California denies approval of homosexuality (N), 837

evaluation of political and social issues (B), 1206

first Negro Episcopal cathedral (N), 124

Martin, Richard B., elected suffragan bishop of Long Island (N), 236

merger discussion (N), 568

Pike removed from the House of Bishops (N), 582

sanction for intercommunion proposed (N), 677

survey of women in California diocese (N), 533

Williams considering the priesthood (N), 419

Episcopalians and COCU: The Year of Decision (N), 568

Episcopalians and Pike’s Progress (E), 1147

Epp, Eldon Jay: The Theological Tendency of Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis in Acts (Clark H. Pinnock) (B), 714

Eppinger, Paul: Be Occupied With Preaching! (A), 901

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

says workers entitled to ‘reasonable’ time off for worship (N), 1119

Equality by Boycott (E), 611

Erich Fromm: A Protestant Critique, by J. Stanley Glen (Gary R. Collins) (B), 769

Ernest Hemingway, by Nathan A. Scott (Paul M. Bechtel) (B), 614

Escarre, Aurelio Maria

asked to resign as abbot for opposition to Spanish governmental oppression (N), 420

Estep, William R.: Baptists and Christian Unity (Thomas B. McDormand) (B), 967

Eternity Magazine

comments on Sunday school congress (N), 186

Ethics

biblical, discussed (B), 1006

guidelines for Christian (B), 966

situation ethics discussed (B), 873

situational ethics a threat to democracy (forum), 382

Southern Baptists asked to stress positive side of morality (N), 122

survey of Christian (B), 1048

EUB

Methodist merger wins (N), 1052

Eucharist—See Communion

Europe

Bibles printed in and shipped to Eastern (N), 419

changes in church life (A), 383

Christians and Communists meet (N), 881

Europe in a Changing Mood, by Jan J. van Capelleveen (A), 383

Eutychus II: Ave Atque Vale (L), 173

farewell of (L), 173

Ibid. and Op Cit. (L), 104

The Sound of Muzak (L), 20

Eutychus III: Dear Bargain-hunters (L), 860

Dear Christmas Shoppers (L), 256

Dear Citizens of Secular City (L), 1190

Dear Coffee-sippers (L), 347

Dear Demonstrative and Non-demonstrative Peace-lovers (L), 804

Dear Foes of Tars and Nicotine (L), 991

Dear Forensic Friends (L), 600

Dear Jazz Buffs (L), 390

Dear Job-Seekers (L), 696

Dear Keepers of the Flame (L), 1134

Dear Members of the Old Breed (L), 903

Dear Saints and Sinners (L), 511

Dear Seers-through-a-glass-darkly (L), 551

Dear Slogan-Lovers (L), 1036

Dear Sons of the Rising Superchurch (L), 1085

Dear Subjects of the Kingdom (L), 662

Dear Televiewers (L), 447

Dear Verbal Militiamen (L), 303

Hi-ho Preacherinos and Church Pillars (L), 209

My Dear Turned-off Brothers (L), 756

My Fair Ladies and Gentlemen (L), 954

Evangelical Alliance

sponsors Victorian congress (N), 1247

Evangelical Defense Committee

criticizes Spain’s religious-freedom law (N), 1118

Evangelical Failures and the Jew (E), 558

Evangelical Free Church of America

rejects federal or state aid (N), 1056

Evangelical Literature Overseas

joins Evangelical Press Association in campus thrust (N), 60

Evangelical Press Association

considers joint convention with ACP in 1971 (N), 1218

joins Evangelical Literature Overseas in campus thrust (N), 60

Paul Fromer new president (N), 933

‘Periodical of the Year’ award to This Day (N), 932

requires doctrinal statement (N), 364

wins tax exemption (N), 1218

Evangelical Principles and Practices, by Gordon Harman (A), part 1, 340; part 2, 387

Evangelical Renaissance in Canada? (E), 865

Evangelical Theological Society

holds symposium on new morality (N), 419

Stephen W. Paine new president, (N), 419

Evangelical United Brethren Church, The

ecumenism and (E), 658

General Conference votes Methodist merger (N), 230

inaccuracies and Faith Church (L), 174

and The Methodist Church (N), 572

railroaded into merger? (N), 321

threat of schism in (N), 574

Evangelicalism

committee appointed by Methodist Council (N), 1246

Graham crusade in Kansas City (N), 1246

renaissance in Canada? (E), 865

Evangelicalism in America, by Bruce Shelley (Ronald H. Nash) (B), 1002

Evangelicals

Anglican National Congress credo (N), 833

Baptist leaders favor cooperation (N), 970

crises confronting (B), 1259

follow-up to World Congress held in Lausanne, Switzerland (N), 932

history of, reviewed (B), 1002

Jews and the (E), 558

modern psychiatry and (E), 309

offensive attitude of (L), 663

plea for togetherness (E), 912

principles and practices (A), 340; 387

respond to unity appeal (N), 1059

who are they? (E), 958

World Congress on Evangelism calls for greater unity (N), 177

Evangelicals and Ecumenical Crisis (E), 658

Evangelicals and the Evangelistic Dialogue, by Kenneth S. Kantzer (N), 1010

Evangelicals and Modern Psychiatry (E), 309

Evangelicals on the Brink of Crisis: Significance of the World Congress on Evangelism, by Carl F. H. Henry (Gerald Kennedy) (B), 1259

Evangelicals Seek a Better Way (E), 996

Evangelism—See October 28 issue

Evangelism

Andrew D. MacRae on (N), 732

American Baptist Convention decrease in baptisms (E), 355

authority for (A), 68

Baptists and (N), 571

Blake emphasizes (E), 265

call for consultation of evangelists (N), 1247

Commonwealth and Continental Church Society working in Spain (N), 882

confusion of meaning, message, method, and motive (A), 132

discussed by NCC (N), 319

during the past decade (N), 59

experiences of an Anglican bishop (A), 142

follow-up meetings in London (N), 51

Ford in Canada (N), 51

Graham in Toronto (N), 1247

hindrance to (A), 78; 543, 544

history of (B), 668

impasse in (A), 542

in Indonesia (N), 1247

increasing role of (forum), 379

Indonesian mass movement to Christianity (N), 1014

means of Christian witness (E), 96

methods of group (A), 100

methods of personal (A), 89

mission among tourists in Spain (N), 882

NAE to spearhead special thrust from April 1967 to April 1968 (N), 285

NCC and (E), 352

NCC views of (E), 160

new tools for world (N), 51

obstacles to—in the world (A), 82

‘paratroop’ evangelism suggested (A), 1183

Potter on, at W.C.C. meeting (N), 1209

services planned in Stratford, Ontario (N), 1247

Southern Presbyterians and (E), 1257

relevancy and urgency of (A), 137

Shea holds crusade in his home town in Ontario (N), 285

Skinner in Washington (N), 53

social action in (N), 970

Southern Baptist crusade in Dayton, Ohio, area (N), 1165

theology of (A), 73

theology of, needed (A), 1020

20th century (CRT), 61

Victorian Congress on Evangelism (N), 1247

view of atonement important in (CRT), 190

West African Congress on (N), 732

what form? (N), 1010

Evangelism-in-Depth

Latin America Mission opens Worldwide Office (N), 677

Evangelism in Sand and Snow, by Peter Goodwin Hudson (N), 882

Everett, Glenn D.: Fleeing U.S. ‘Persecution’ (N), 530

Evolution

contemporary thought and (A), 843

Tennessee ban on its teaching repealed (N), 932

Tennessee law stays (N), 825

vs. creationism (B), 462

Example, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 994

Existential Absurdity on the Campus, by Clifford Edwards (A), 797

Existentialism

absurdity on campus (A), 797

dogmas of (A), 1237

Evangelicals at the Brink of Crisis: Significance of the World Congress on Evangelism (Gerald Kennedy) (B), 1259

varieties of (B), 461

Expo ’67

H. Elmer Bartsch appointed deputy interim chief of Christian Pavilion (N), 420

description of (N), 773

mirrors the Christian Church (N), 1160

Expo 67: Dual Approach, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 369

Expo’s Religious Reflection: Accidentally Accurate (N), 1160

Exposing the Tricks of the Trade, by J. D. Douglas (CRT), 1120

Exposition of the Gospel of Luke, An, by Herschel H. Hobbs (Stanley D. Toussaint) (B), 1104

Extracting the Cotton, by T. E. Koshy (N), 775

Ezekiel

sermonizing from (B), 968

F

Fabric of Paul Tillich’s Theology, The, by David H. Kelsey (Gordon H. Clark) (B), 964

Fact and Faith in Modern Theology, by Stephen Board (A), 847

Fairbanks, Alaska

denominations ask aid in rebuilding flooded churches (N), 1218

Faith

must be recovered by Church (A), 693

Faith’s Waning Power to Enthrall, by Nathan M. Pusey (Q), 790

Family life

deteriorating in United States (N), 125

Far East Broadcasting Company

plans research center (L), 1135

Farley, Hugh D., death of (N), 326

Farris, John: King Windom (Ella Erway) (B), 875

Fate of Reformers in the Roman Fold, The, by Charles A. Bolton (A), 979

Fatima

one of the world’s major Marian shrines (N), 672

Fatima’s Fiftieth: A Boost for Mariology (N), 672

Faulting the Bible Critics, by C. S. Lewis (A), 895

Feaster, William N., death of (N), 237, 1012

Fed Up with Liberals, by Craig Skinner (N), 1013

Feedback from a Churchman, by John E. Wagner (A), 296

Fiedler, Lois

first woman ministerial candidate among Texas Presbyterians (N), 1164

Feilding, Charles R.: Education for Ministry (David W. Kerr) (B), 820

Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Tom Landry named NFL Coach of the Year (N), 933

Ferguson, Everett

edits New Testament commentary for Churches of Christ (N), 733

Ferment at Berkeley’s Bapist Seminary, by Edward E. Plowman (N), 323

Ferment ’67

new ecumenical publication (N), 1214

Ferré, Nels F. S.: A Theology for Christian Education (Edward L. Hayes) (B), 1002

Fickett, Harold L., Jr.: Preaching in Series (MW), 37

Fields, W. C.

new president of Associated Church Press (N), 836

FIGHT

and the churches (E), 763

controversy with Eastman Kodak (E), 813

Eastman Kodak and (A), 1028

Fight Church Officials May Regret, A (E), 813

1517–1967, by G. C. Berkouwer (CRT), 678

Films

‘A Man for All Seasons’ praised (E), 762

‘Bible, The … in the beginning’ (N), 55

‘For Pete’s Sake’ (N), 57

‘Hawaii’ distorts work of missionaries (E), 762

reviews—pro and con (L), 862

‘Time for Burning, A’ (N), 56

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf called ‘least liked movie of 1966’ (N), 836

women often offended by depiction of sex (N), 836

‘Worlds Apart’ (N), 57

Finality of Christ, The, ed. by Dow Kirkpatrick (David H. Wallace) (B), 268

Finances

church investment (N), 1248

Finck, Theodore K., death of (N), 285

Finland

religion instruction restricted to Lutherans (N), 837

Salama’s Midsummer Dances confiscated for ‘deliberate blasphemy’ (N), 126

Firearms

control needed (B), 110

First Baptist Church, Dallas

celebrates centennial (N), 1117

First Church of Chattanooga

Ben Haden new minister (N), 1164

First and Second Chronicles

Anchor Bible treatment of (B), 168

First Frost, by E. Margaret Clarkson (P), 197

Fitch, William: Canadian Unity—In and Out of Church (N), 1211

Fitch, William: Christian Campus Report: 1967 (N), 1162

Fitch, William: The Glory of Preaching (MW), 398

Fleeing U.S. ‘Persecution’, by Glenn D. Everett (N), 530

Flemming, Arthur

only official nominee for president of the NCC (N), 236

Fletcher, Joseph: Moral Responsibility: Situation Ethics at Work (Arthur F. Holmes) (B), 873

Flowing Ecumenical Tide, The, by W. Stanford Reid (A), 643

For the Sake of Art, by Addison H. Leitch (CRT), 477

Fool Hath Said … The, by Marie J. Post (P), 431

Football

Steve Spurrier outstanding player (N), 417

Football: Faith and $400,000, by Adon Taft (N), 417

Ford Foundation

religious grants (N), 1250

Ford, Leighton

crusade in Canada (N), 51

social action through evangelism (N), 970

The Centennial Crisis (A), 644

The Christian Persuader (Robert L. Cleath) (B), 108

no mass evangelism (forum), 379

Foreman, Kenneth J.: The Engineer’s Got to Know Where His Hind End Is (A), 800

death of (N), 677

Forgiveness

and sin (A), 539

Forker, Wilbert: Race-Track Evangelism (N), 674

Forsberg, Malcolm: Last Days on the Nile (Francis Rue Steele) (B), 822

Forster, Keith

denied visa for Wycliffe work in Nigeria (N), 327

Found Too Late: The Word of God, by Donald R. Neiswender (A), 199

Foundations of New Testament Christology, by Reginald H. Fuller (Richard N. Longenecker) (B), 166

France

Baptist churches close (N), 124

French Protestant Federation encourages Lutheran-Reformed merger (N), 236

Francis Asbury, by L. C. Rudolph (Frederick A. Norwood) (B), 406

Francoeur, Robert T.

Catholic priest, married last June (N), 1164

Frank, Eugene M.

president-elect of Methodist Council of Bishops (N), 780

Free for All, by J. D. Douglas (CRT), 238

Freedom in Modern Theology, by Robert T. Osborn (Frederic R. Howe) (B), 1148

Freedom of speech

‘Fairness Doctrine’ tested (N), 1053

Freeland, William D.

Bible in Wax (N), 578

Catholics Battle GOP on School Aid (N), 884

Catholic Dilemma: Control Versus Conscience (N), 826

Inter-Faith Debate on Easing Abortion Laws (N), 779

Puerto Rico: Cracking the Outer Shell (N), 722

The Invisible Evangelical (N), 831

The New Nuns (N), 930

Freer, Harold Wiley: God Meets Us Where We Are: An Interpretation of Brother Lawrence (Armin Gesswein) (B), 1049

French Protestant Federation

encourages Lutheran-Reformed merger (N), 236

Freud, Sigmund

on Woodrow Wilson (N), 320

Freud on Woodrow Wilson: A Delusion of Divinity (N), 320

From Oberammergau to Britain, by David Coomes (N), 883

Fromer, Paul

new president of EPA (N), 933

Fromm, Erich

Protestant critique of (B), 769

Frye, Roland Mushat (ed.): The Bible: Selections from the King James Version (Calvin D. Linton) (B), 168

Fuchida, Mitsuo

Japanese attacker visits Pearl Harbor (N), 366

Fuller, David Otis (ed.): Valiant for the Truth: A Treasury of Evangelical Writings (John H. Gerstner) (B), 965

Fuller, Reginald H.: Foundations of New Testament Christology (Richard N. Longenecker) (B), 166

professor of New Testament, Union Theological Seminary (N), 420

Fund for Theological Education

Rooks, C. Shelby, new executive director (N), 975

Fundamentals of the Faith

Christ and His Church, by Marcus L. Loane (booklet), at 957

Jesus Christ the Divine Redeemer, by Calvin D. Linton (booklet), at 561

Reformed Doctrine of Sanctification, The, by Cary N. Weisiger III (booklet), at 1144

The Glorious Destiny of the Believer, by Merrill C. Tenney (booklet), at 309

Fundamentalism

Missouri Synod and (B), 918

Fundamentalism and the Missouri Synod, by Milton L. Rudnick (Robert Preus) (B), 918

Funk, Robert W.: Language, Hermeneutic and Word of God (Lawrence E. Yates) (B), 519

Future of Belief, The: Theism in a World Come of Age, by Leslie Dewart (David A. Redding) (B), 562

Future possibilities

Christian leaders on (forum), 379

G

Gaebelein, Frank E.

on American Education (forum), 380

Gallaway, Ira: What I’ve Learned in Counseling a Terminally III Person (A), 894

Gallup Poll

lists men Americans admire most (N), 419

rank of five major Protestant groups (N), 1115

Gallup Poll Ranks Status of 5 Protestant Groups (N), 1115

Garaudy, Roger

‘intellectual cooperation’ necessary (E), 354

Garcia, Robert

priest, to head New Mexico’s anti-poverty agency (N), 975

Garrison, Webb: The Joy of Memorizing Scripture (A), 204

Garrity, W. J., death of (N), 1012

Gartenhaus, Jacob: How to Approach the Jew with the Gospel (A), 253

Garvin, M. H.: Listen, Clergymen! (A), 292

Gaydos, Ken.: Half of a TV Debate (N), 322

U.S. Aid for Segregation? (N), 626

Gearing for Action, by Leon Morris (N), 1247

Geering, Lloyd

denies historicity of resurrection (N), 674

denies immortality of human soul (N), 732

Genesis

understanding (B), 314

Genet, Harry W., and Baker, Dwight L.: Mideast: Weighing the Effects (N), 1007

Georgia

Macon church formed by supporters of integrated worship (N), 371

Geren, Paul F.

new president of Stetson University (N), 1255

Germany

Bavarians to vote on state-supported religious schools (N), 1165

confessional movement resists modern theology (N), 675

Evangelical Church in Germany on both sides of the wall (N), 774

Kirchentag boycotted by Confessional movement (N), 1056

Kirchentag 1967 (CRT), 1166

Methodists and EUB’s to follow U.S. merger (N), 975

Germany: The New Resistance, by Jan J. van Capelleveen (N), 675

Germany, East

large drop in Lutheran baptisms (N), 1255

Luther to be honored in ‘historical context’ (N), 235

Germany, West

two leading Protestants in high political posts (N), 372

Gerstner, John H.: New Light on the Confession of 1967 (A), 244

Ghana

Anglicans approve intercommunion with other segments of proposed national church (N), 372

relaxes strictures on South African visitors (N), 677

Gibson, Robert F., Jr.

American church mergers ‘quite far behind’ rest of world (N), 885

Gideons International

distributed five million Bibles last year (N), 1119

to supply Testaments to African school children (N), 1119

Gilbert, Arthur

for objective teaching of religion in schools (N), 572

Gilbert, Rabbi Arthur

to teach religion and sociology at Marymount Manhattan College (N), 1255

Gilman, Alfred Alonzo, death of (N), 126

Girandola, Anthony

refused Roman Catholic burial for stillborn daughter (N), 420

Giving Away What You Don’t Own (E), 128

Glasow, Carl E.: Dangers of a Giant Church (A), 694

Glasser, Arthur

on the population explosion (forum), 380

Glaze, A. J.

new president of International Baptist Seminary, Buenos Aires (N), 732

Glen, J. Stanley: Erich Fromm: A Protestant Critique (Gary R. Collins) (B), 769

Glen, J. Stanley: The Recovery of the Teaching Ministry (Edward L. Hayes) (B), 1002

Glenmary Sisters

ask dispensation from their vows (N), 1161

Glick, G. Wayne: The Reality of Christianity: A Study of Adolf von Harnack as Historian and Theologian (Robert H. Gundry) (B), 1152

Glide, by Edward E. Plowman (N), 825

Glock, Charles Y., et al.: To Comfort and to Challenge: A Dilemma of the Contemporary Church (Edwin M. Yamauchi) (B), 1206

Glock-Stark theory

refuted by Merton Strommen (N), 1117

Glorious Destiny of the Believer, The, by Merrill C. Tenney (insert), 308

Glory of Preaching, The, by William Fitch (MW), 398

Glossolalia

explanation for its popularity (N), 1060

Nazarene pastor excommunicated for speaking in tongues (N), 371

Roman Catholicism and (N), 880

God

greatness of (LF), 212

God and Man in the 20th century

Churchmen Look at Communism (panel), 948

Gospel and World Religion, The (panel), 248

series available for TV outlets (E), 33

The Church and Social Concern (panel), 683

What’s the Sense of Work? (panel), 1125

God Meets Us Where We Are: An Interpretation of Brother Lawrence, by Harold Wiley Freer (Armin Gesswein) (B), 1049

God Planted Five Seeds, by Jean Dye Johnson (Cal Guy) (B), 274

God Question and Modern Man, The, by Hans Urs von Balthasar (Milton D. Hunnex) (B), 872

Godard, James M.

to head educational research project (N), 732

God’s Revolutionary Demand, by Billy Graham (A), 1019

God’s Word Written: Essays on the Nature of Biblical Revelation, Inspiration, and Authority, by John C. Wenger (R. Laird Harris) (B), 713

Good, Glad News, The (E), 67

Good God! Cry or Credo?, by Hubert Black (Robert Boyd Munger) (B), 458

Good News and Good Works (E), 957

Good News for a World in Need (E), 34

Gospel in a Social Context, The, by Adon Taft (N), 969

Gospel

approach to the Jews (A), 253

divine dynamic (A), 149

Gospel and World Religion, The, by Carl F. H. Henry, Clyde W. Taylor, Josef Nordenhaug, and Richard C. Halverson (panel), 248

Gospel of Revolution, The, by Alice Widener (Q), 499

Gospels

translated into the Scouse dialect of Liverpool (N), 929

Government

honesty in (E), 657

Graham, Billy

at Berkeley campus (N), 526

Berlin crusade (N), 119

crusade in Kansas City (N), 1246

crusade in Puerto Rico (N), 722

follow-up meetings in London (N), 51

God’s Revolutionary Demand (A), 1019

Great Britain crusade (N), 1059

in Toronto (N), 1247

makes Gallup’s ‘most admired’ list (N), 419

plans to visit Yugoslavia (N), 1013

speaker at dedication of ORU (N), 778

Viet Nam mission (N), 412

visits poverty programs in western North Carolina (N), 933

Why the Berlin Congress? (A), 131

Yugoslavia crusade (N), 1109

Graham Preaches Peace in Viet Nam, by Dale Herendeen (N), 412

Graham TV Saturates Britain, by J. D. Douglas (N), 1059

Graham’s Rousing Red Welcome, by J. D. Douglas (N), 1109

Granberg, Lars I.: What I’ve Learned in Counseling a Homosexual (A), 892

Grandea, Ambrosio S., death of (N), 1012

Grandlienard, Joseph C.

to direct Church Plan Commission in NYC area (N), 1164

Grant, A. Raymond, death of (N), 1219

Grass Roots Church, The: A Manifesto for Protestant Renewal, by Stephen C. Rose (William Edmund Bouslough) (B), 457

Graves, J. R.

Landmark Movement and (A), 689

Great Britain

Baptist Union Council rejects current merger plans (N), 780

Clapham sect

influential men included in (A), 387

controversy or, sex in (E), 162

Ecumenism in (CRT), 1120

evangelicals urged to form a new (N), 180

gin consumption in (A), 387

Penry Jones heads religious broadcasting department of BBC (N), 583

Presbyterians and Congregationalists to merge (N), 975

Sex and Morality causes storms of protest (CRT), 238

Student Christian Movement seeks talks with ‘conservative evangelicals’ (N), 236

theology of the English Reformers (B), 966

Great Valley Presbyterian Church

refuses to support Confession of 1967 (N), 1063

Greece

Archbishop Chrysostomos dismissed (N), 881

new primate appointed (N), 928

parliament ends ecclesiastical crisis (N), 229

religious intolerance (E), 1198

which way for? (N), 1208

Greek New Testament, The, ed. by Kurt Aland, Matthew Black, Bruce M. Metzger, and Allan Wikgren (Everett F. Harrison) (B), 357

Greek Orthodox Church

condemns contraception (N), 836

Dore, Arthur, named director of interchurch relations and communications for Archdiocese of North and South America (N), 236

may open a ‘Hellenic University’ (N), 776

Turks put pressure on (N), 120

Greene, Sherman L., death of (N), 1119

Gregory, Dick

‘preaches’ at San Francisco Methodist church (N), 125

Gregory of Nyssa

quoted on church conditions in the 4th century (A), 196

Grennan, Jean Marie

lay control of RC colleges (N), 467

Griffiths, Michael C.

to become general director of Overseas Missionary Fellowship in 1969 (N), 1255

Grissom, Virgil, death of (N), 525

Groff, Patricia May

missionary martyr (N), 674

Groppi, The Rev. James

advocates open-housing (N), 1250

fined in civil rights disturbance (N), 1117

joins militant civil rights leaders (E), 1257

Gross, Richard

named dean of Gordon College (N), 780

Grounds, Vernon C.: Building on the Bible (A), 201

Groves, Richard: The Message in Modern Pop Music (A), 941

Guinea

foreign missionaries may be deported (N), 883

Guy, Cal

on missions and the church (forum), 380

H

Habakkuk, Book of

source of Paul’s ‘salvation by faith’ (A), 1125

Haden, Benjamin

moves to First Church of Chattanooga (N), 1164

succeeds D. Reginald Thomas on ‘The Bible Study Hour’ (N), 533

Hadjis, Meliton

elected Metropolitan of Chalcedon (N), 237

Hageman, Howard G.: Listen Before You Speak (MW), 214

Haile Selassie

to attend World Congress of Evangelism (N), 118

Haiti

Radio Lumiere orders new transmitter (N), 1014

Half of a TV Debate, by Ken Gaydos (N), 322

Hall, Billy: West Indies: Ecumenical Seminary (N), 881

Halverson, Richard C.: Methods of Personal Evangelism (A), 89

Halverson, Richard C., et al.: Is Sunday School a Lost Cause? (panel), 1071

Halverson, Richard C., et al.: The Gospel and World Religion (panel), 248

Hamilton, Steve

evangelical turns Marxist (N), 579

Hamilton, William

radical theology and (CRT), 286

to teach at New College, Sarasota, Florida (N), 975

Hamlet

discussion of (A), 490

Hammarskjöld, Dag

secret faith of (B), 664

Han, Kyung Chik: By My Spirit (A), 155

Hannen, Robert

leaves Berkeley Baptist Divinity School for Central Baptist Seminary (N), 1015

Hanson, Anthony (ed.): Vindications: Essays on the Historical Basis of Christianity (John Frederick Jansen) (B), 561

Hanson, R. P. C., (ed.): The New Clarendon Bible: The Acts (David W. Mcllvaine) (B), 1150

Hargis, Billy James

author of McCarthy speech (N), 671

denied tax-exempt status (N), 186

loses federal tax exemption (N), 671

Harllee, Ella F., et al.: Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

Harman, Gordon: Evangelical Principles and Practices (A), part 1, 340; part 2, 387

Harms, Oliver

commends President Johnson for Viet Nam ceasefire on behalf of Missouri Synod Lutherans (N), 326

Harnack, Adolf von

study of (B), 1152

Harpur, T. W.: The Theological Climate in Canada (A), 646

Harris, Marquis LaFayette, death of (N), 126

Harrison, Bob

West Indies crusade (N), 674

Harrison, Ernest

Canada’s God-is-dead theologian (B), 664

heresy of (N), 628

A Church Without God (J. Berkley Reynolds) (B), 664

Harrison, Joanne Rhudy: Prayer for a Heart’s Spring (P), 745

Harrison, Rodger

to become chaplain to English-speaking Protestants in Moscow (N), 932

Hartt, Julian H.: A Christian Critique of American Culture: An Essay in Practical Theology (Melvin G. Williams) (B), 1151

Has the Spirit of Confusion Bewitched the Secular Theologians?, by Milton D. Hunnex (A), 298

Hate Begets Hate (E), 1198

Hatfield, Mark O.

on war and peace (forum), 380

Hatt, Harold E.: Encountering Truth: A New Understanding of How Revelation as Encounter Yields Doctrine (Samuel J. Mikolaski) (B), 616

Have You?, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 30

Havner, Vance: The Church Must First Repent (A), 747

Hawaii

votes transportation subsidies for parochial school pupils (N), 1165

Hearing and Doing the Word, by G. C. Berkouwer (CRT), 128

Heart Longing to Be Free, A (E), 814

Hedrich, Albert L.

on scientific discoveries (forum), 380

Heinemann, Gustav

West German cabinet member and former president of EKID (N), 372

Help! I’m a Layman, by Kenneth Chafin (Robert L. Cleath) (B), 108

Henderson, Bruce

new religion editor at Time (N), 467

Henderson, Gordon

to monitor radio stations for propaganda (N), 1063

Henderson, Ian

on ecumenism in Great Britain (CRT), 1120

Henry, Carl F. H.

A Challenge to Ecumenical Politicians (A), 1171

The Need for a Christian University (A), 485

Henry, Carl F. H., et al.

The Bible and the New Morality (panel), 1021

Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

The Church and Social Concern (panel), 683

Churchmen Look at Communism (panel), 948

Crisis in Communication (panel), 4

The Gospel and World Religion (panel), 248

Wrat’s the Sense of Work? (panel), 1125

Henry, Carl F. H. (ed.): Jesus of Nazareth: Saviour and Lord (Wayne E. Ward) (B), 356

Hereafter Known as Keele 1967, by J. D. Douglas (CRT), 838

Herendeen, Dale: Graham Preaches Peace in Viet Nam (N), 412

Heresy

out of date? (N), 1156

Heresy: An Outmoded Concept? (N), 1156

Heresy of Ernest Harrison, The, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 628

Heritage of the Cathedral, The, by Sartell Prentice (Carl H. Droppers) (B), 1150

Herkunft und Zukunft des Menschen: Ein kritischer Überblick der dem Darwinismus und Christentum zugrunde liegenden naturwissenschaftlichen und geistlichen Prinzipien, by A. E. Wilder-Smith (Edwin Y. Monsma) (B), 462

Hermeneutical Problem, The, by G. C. Berkouwer (CRT), 1264

Hermeneutics

important challenge of today (CRT), 1264

Herring, Ralph A.: The Cycle of Prayer (C. Ralston Smith) (B), 770

Herron, Orley S.

to teach at U. of Mississippi (N), 933

Hess, M. Whitcomb: Magi Beside the Crib (P), 301

Hess, Margaret Johnston: Weekday Bible Classes: A Way to Reach Women (A), 206

Hessert, Paul: New Directions in Theology Today, Volume V: Christian Life (Charles E. Hummel) (B), 1100

Hiebert, Ray Eldon: Courtier to the Crowd: The Story of Ivy Lee and the Development of Public Relations (David E. Kucharsky) (B), 112

Higgins, Msgr. George

chosen as USIA religion advisor (N), 671

Hi-ho Preacherinos and Church Pillars, by Eutychus III (L), 209

Hindrances to Evangelism in the Church, by Walter Künneth (A), 78

Hindus

riot in New Delhi to force ban on slaughter of sacred cows (N), 236

urge law against proselyting in India (N), 932

Hines, Bishop John E.

quoted on the spiritual needs of men (E), 161

Hirsch, Rabbi Richard

chosen as USIA religion advisor (N), 671

Historical Shape of Faith, The, by Ralph G. Wilburn (John Frederick Jansen) (B), 561

Historical Survey of the Old Testament, An, by Eugene H. Merrill (Gleason L. Archer) (B), 876

History

influence of Reformation on (A), 1123

History of Evangelism, by Paulus Scharpff (Mark W. Lee) (B). 668

Hobbs, Herschel H.: An Exposition of the Gospel of Luke (Stanley D. Toussaint) (B), 1104

What I’ve Learned in Counseling a Bereaved Person (A), 893

Hodges, Isam B., death of (N), 677

Hoekema, Anthony A.: Assessing Jehovah’s Witnesses (A), 1030

Hoeksema, Herman: Reformed Dogmatics (M. Eugene Osterhaven) (B), 964

Hoffman, Bengt Runo

professor of ethics and ecumenics at Lutheran Thelogical Seminary, Gettysburg (N), 1255

Hoiland, Richard

interim president of Berkeley Baptist Divinity School (N), 582

Holidays

three-day weekends may hurt church attendance (N), 1119

Holiness groups

working relationship between (N), 322

Holiness Unity on Tiptoe, by Elden E. Rawlings (N), 322

Holman, John T.

defamation suit against U. S. government dismissed (N), 420

Holmes, Thomas J.

public relations director of Mercer University (N), 188

Holst, Robert

claims lack of biblical evidence against polygamy (N), 1119

Holt, Ivan Lee, death of (N), 476

Holy Bible, The, Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition (Bruce M. Metzger) (B), 44

Holy Spirit

brings about conversion (A), 1020

ecumenism and (A), 752

established the Church (A), 155

in the New Testament (A), 753

modern Christianity and (A), 898

work of (E), 708

Holy Spirit—See booklet at page 1144

Homiletics

determining factors in preaching (MW), 1096

glory of preaching (MW), 398

importance of illustrations (MW), 870

joy of preaching (MW), 612

preacher must read and hear (MW), 214

preaching in series (MW), 37

preaching through the Bible (MW), 262

preaching without notes (MW), 263, 766

prophetic preaching today (MW), 1140

sermons by Kennedy and Read reviewed (B), 1148

Homosexuality

defense of (N), 1113

toward an understanding of (B), 617

Honest with God, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 506

Hong Kong

‘cultural revolution’ in (N), 974

K. L. Stumpf leads drive against drug addiction (N), 284

Hong Kong: How Long?, by George N. Patterson (N), 974

Hook, Phillip

named dean of students at Wheaton (N), 780

Hoover, J. Edgar: An Analysis of the New Left: A Gospel of Nihilism (A), 1067

Hoover, Paul R.: Social Pressures and Church Policy (A), 1028

Hope, Norman V.: Is a Read Sermon a Dead Sermon? (MW), 766

Hope, Norman V.: Protestantism’s Birthday: The Importance of 1517 (A), 1227

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (C. Ralston Smith) (B), 1263

(B), 1263

Hopkins, Jerry W.: Wife Charts a Sermon (A), 902

Hordern, William: New Directions in Theology Today, Volume I: Introduction (Edward John Cornell) (B), 220

How a Whole Church Vanished, by Dwight L. Baker (A), 195

How Big is God?, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 212

How I Changed My Mind, by Karl Barth (Geoffrey W. Bromiley) (B), 517

How Not to Give Thanks (E), 218

How the Churches Lobby, by James L. Adams (A), 849

How to Approach the Jew with the Gospel, by Jacob Gartenhaus (A), 253

How to Give Away Your Faith, by Paul E. Little (Robert L. Cleath) (B), 108

How to Light up a Sermon, by M. Jackson White (MW), 870

How to Pray, by Francis E. Reinberger (C. Ralston Smith) (B), 770

Hromodka, Josef

active in Prague’s Christian Peace Conference (N), 187

on witnessing at W.C.C. meeting (N), 1210

Hruby, Blahoslav

managing editor of RCDA (N), 674

Hudson, A. W. Goodwin: The Methods of Group Evangelism (A), 100

Hudson, Peter Goodwin: Evangelism in Sand and Snow (N), 882

Hughes, Philip Edgcumbe: Theology of the English Reformers (Clair Davis) (B), 966

Huizing, F. E.

protests Dutch military spending by withholding 15% of tax payment (N), 533

Hull, Horace H., death of (N), 237

Listen, Clergymen! (A), 292

Hull, Roger: Listen, Clergymen! (A), 292

Hulme, William E.: Your Pastor’s Problems: A Guide for Ministers and Laymen (Lars I. Granberg) (B), 315

Huitgren, Gunnar

to retire as primate of Lutheran Church of Sweden (N), 237

Humanism

‘Humanist Manifesto’ (A), 794

trouble with (A), 794

Humor

place for—in church? (A), 344

Hungary

Hungarian Baptist Seminary has fourteen students (N), 187

Lutheran church announces new code for co-existence with government (N), 372

Reformed Church marks 400th anniversary (N), 780

Hunnex, Milton D.: Has the Spirit of Confusion Bewitched the Secular Theologians? (A), 298

Hunt, Leslie: The Church’s Missionary Outreach (A), 648

Hunt, Rolfe Lanier

editor of NCC’s International Journal of Religious Education (N), 533

Husain, Zakir

president-elect of India (N), 928

Huston, Earl, Jr

excommunicated from Church of the Nazarene for speaking in tongues (N), 371

Hutten, Kurt: Iron Curtain Christians: The Church in Communist Countries (Blahoslav S. Hruby) (B), 1046

Hutto, Henry: Beyond the Night and the Slough (P), 593

St. Matthew 25:42 (P), 436

Hyde, J. W.: Whither the Church? (LF), 555

I

‘I Believe in COCU’?, by James Montgomery Boice (A), 739

ICCC

Viet Nam visit (N), 1012

I Knew Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Reminiscences of His Friends, ed. by Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann (Geoffrey W. Bromiley) (B), 517

I Stand by the Door: The Life of Sam Shoemaker, by Helen Smith Shoemaker (Peter C. Moore) (B), 1203

Ibid. and Op. Cit., by Eutychus II (L), 104

Ideas that Shape the American Mind, by D. Elton True blood (interview), 331

If I Had Only One Sermon to Preach, ed. by Ralph G. Turnbull (Haddon W. Robinson) (B), 405

IIIiteracy

Communism takes advantage of (E), 1146

Imosun, Julius

Ghanian accepted as member in North Carolina church (N), 188

Incendiary Fellowship, The, by D. Elton Trueblood (IIion T. Jones) (B), 518

Incredible Ruling, An (E), 510

India

Diehl, Carl Gustay, to head South India’s Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church (N), 237

Dorairaj feared kidnapped from Hindustan Bible in stitute (N), 326

elects a Muslim president (N), 928

extremists gain (N), 624

Hindu priests riot in New Delhi (N), 236

Hindus urge criminal action against proselyting (N), 932

I.C.C.C. to build 200 churches for South Indian fundamentalists (N), 1218

Methodists to decide whether to join united church of North India (N), 1218

mission hospital wing donated by USAID (N), 1165

Orissa State rebuilds riot-damaged churches (N), 885

starvation causes tragedy in (E), 267

India Vote: Extremists Gain, by T. E. Koshy (N), 624

India’s Desperate Plight (E), 267

India’s Muslim President, by T. E. Koshy (N), 928

Indonesia

Christian revival in progress (N), 124

evangelism in (N), 1247

fastest mission frontier (N), 778

surge of revival (N), 1014

Indonesia: It Sounds Like Revival (N), 1014

Inductive Inerrancy, by John Warwick Montgomery (CRT), 584

Infallible Hatred, An (E), 559

Influence of the Reformation on World History, The, by Kenneth Scott Latourette (A), 1123

‘Inheritance, The’

honored by Educational Communication Association (N), 236

Innes, T. Christie

appointed research associate with Christianity Today for work on Calvin (N), 473

Institute for Advanced Christian Studies

dramatic development of (E), 1042

educators endorse plan (E), 508

Integration

and The Methodist Church (N), 52

Integrity in Politics (E), 99

Interchurch Stir in Edinburgh, by J. D. Douglas (N), 970

Inter-Faith Debate on Easing Abortion Laws, by William D. Freeland (N), 779

Internal Revenue Service

warns that admission fees to charity events are not deductible (N), 1218

International Christian Youth, U.S.A.

Kennedy, Jon Reid, new chairman (N), 1063

International Convention of Christian Churches, The—See also Disciples of Christ

International Convention of Christian Churches

Ronald Osborn new president-elect (N), 60

to merge with National Christian Missionary Convention (N), 1215

International Council of Christian Churches

clergymen expelled from Cameroun (N), 629

to help build 200 churches for South Indian fundamentalists (N), 1218

International Fellowship of Evangelical Students

general committee meets in Wuppertal, Germany (N), 1218

International Journal of Religious Education

Rolfe Lanier Hunt named new editor (N), 533

International Moravian Synod

Spaugh, R. Gordon, new president (N), 1118

nternational Students, Inc.

raising funds for Washington, D.C., training and service center (N), 419

Interpreter’s House

Carlyle Marney new director (N), 885

Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization

creation of, by ten groups (N), 925

Intriguing New Titles in the Field of Religion, by Robert L. Cleath A, 1185

Investment in Christian Missions: Waste or Witness?, by Dean R. Kirkwood (A), 1034

Invisible Evangelical, The, by William D. Freeland (N), 831

Iona Community

Jan Reid new leader (N), 975

Iowa

exempts Old Order Amish church schools from regulations (N), 1118

Ireland

Anglican bishops charge that Catholic changes in mixed-marriage rules are superficial (N), 372

Ireland (Northern)

Ian Paisley released from prison (N), 187

Iron Curtain Christians: The Church in Communist Countries, by Kurt Hutten (Blahoslav S. Hruby) (B), 1046

Irresponsibility in High Office (E), 307

Irwin, William A., death of (N), 836

Is a Read Sermon a Dead Sermon?, by Norman V. Hope (MW), 766

Is Christian-Marxist Dialogue Possible? (E), 354

Is Sunday School a Lost Cause?, by Carl F. H. Henry, Richard C. Halverson, William E. Pannell, Charles Nagel (panel), 1071

Isais, Juan M.

directs high school and university work for Latin America Mission (N), 475

Islam

Ahmadiyyat community plans world evangelization (N), 280

greatest deterrent to Christianity (forum), 381

militant Muslims in Turkey (N), 279

new mosque planned for New York (N), 624

Islam’s Zealous Spin-off, by E. R. Reynolds, Jr. (N), 280

Israel

Communists lose political control in Nazareth (N), 327

embassy answer to news story on the war (L), 1241

Gezer

Solomon’s.gate discovered (N), 927

Jews’ re-entry into the Holy City (N), 973

Security Council censures (E), 267

Israeli crisis

report by James L. Kelso (N), 1051

Issues in Science and Religion, by Ian G. Barbour (Gordon H. Clark) (B), 108

Issues Posed by a Common Bible (E), 608

J

Jackson, Donald

first vice-president of independent Methodist Conference in the Caribbean and Central America (N), 1063

Jackson, Mahalia

divorced (N), 836

Jacqueline, Sister Mary—See Grennan, Jean Marie

James Bond’s World of Values, by Lycurgus M. Starkey, Jr. (Clyde S. Kilby) (B), 564

James, E. S.

suffers massive coronary attack (N), 1117

Japan

new religions (B), 818

survey shows lack in theological education (N), 372

Suzuki, Masahisa, elected moderator of United Church of Christ (N), 237

United Church of Christ confesses complicity in World War II (N), 677

Jarman, W. Maxey: Achieving Great Things for God (A), 294

Listen, Clergymen! (A), 292

Jeffers, Joseph D.

accused of mail fraud in promotion of ‘Kingdom of Yahweh’ (N), 419

Jehovah’s Witnesses

assessing (A), 1030

Jellema, Roderick: Peter DeVries (Paul M. Bechtel) (B), 614

Jerusalem

casting lots for (E), 1093

Ethiopian and Coptic Orthodox pilgrims clash (N), 885

Jews’ re-entry into the Holy City (N), 973

plans for (N), 1052

a third temple? (N), 1050

Jerusalem: A Third Temple?, by Dwight L. Baker (N), 1050

Jesus Christ

death of (A), 597

disturbs complacent men (A), 243

finality of, debated (B), 268

historicity of, debated (N), 123

a homosexual? (N), 1113

Passover Plot (Schonfield) reviewed (B), 269

resurrection, historicity denied (N), 674

Jesus Christ the Divine Redeemer, by Calvin D. Linton (booklet), at 561

Jesus of Nazareth: Saviour and Lord, ed. by Carl F. H. Henry (Wayne E. Ward) (B), 356

Jewry

Israel wants stricter limitations on Christian work (N), 883

tension in (N), 883

Jews

at Christmas (N), 324

evangelical failures and the (E), 558

Gospel approach to the (A), 253

more resentment against Catholics (N), 836

persecution in Soviet Union (N), 1110

question of number exterminated (L), 696

Rabbi Lieberman sends Passover message to Russian Jews (N), 837

third Temple for the? (N), 1050

Jews at Christmas (N), 324

Jews in Old Jerusalem! A Historic Re-Entry (N), 973

John Calvin (‘Courtenay Studies in Reformation Theology,’ Vol. 1), ed. by G. E. Duffield (Donald J. Bruggink) (B), 314

Johnson, Edward L.: Listen, Clergymen! (A), 292

Johnson, Hewlett, death of (N), 188

Johnson, James L.: Code Name Sebastian (Clifford Edwards) (B), 919

death of (N), 1012

Johnson, Jean Dye: God Planted Five Seeds (Cal Guy) (B), 274

Johnson, Louis

condemns U.S. control of Congo Baptists (N), 932

Johnson, Lyndon Baines

elected elder of First Christian Church, Johnson City, Texas (N), 326

missal used in swearing-in ceremony (N), 628

wins ‘Family of Man’ award (N), 186

Johnson, Matthew

death of, causes race riots (N), 116

Johnson, Paul E.: Person and Counselor: Responsive Counseling in the Christian Context (Gordon Stanley) (B), 819

Johnson, Robert Pierre

first Negro general presbyter in New York City (N), 1015

Johnshoy, Howard G., death of (N), 733

Jones, H. Kimball: Toward a Christian Understanding of the Homosexual (Frank C. Peters), (B), 617

Jones, Howard

Kinshasa crusade (N), 723

Jones, Howard O.

on the Negro (forum), 381

Shall We Overcome? (Frank E. Gaebelein) (B), 43

Jones, James Archibald, death of (N), 285

Jones, Penry

heads religious broadcasting department of the BBC, (N), 583

Josefson, Ruben

Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala and primate of Church of Sweden (N), 933

Journalism—See Communications issue, October 14, 1966

Journalism

Time chooses new religion writer (N), 467

Joy of Memorizing Scripture, The, by Webb Garrison (A), 204

Joy of Preaching, The, by Charles Ferguson Ball (MW), 612

Judaism

30,000 conversions to, since 1954 (N), 836

new encyclopedia of (B), 406

‘Judas Tree’, The, by Joan Kerns (N), 732

K

Kaldy, Zoltan

announces new code adopted by Hungarian Lutheran church (N), 372

Kane, Douglas N.: College, Hospital Cut Church Ties (N), 671

Kantzer, Kenneth S.: Evangelicals and the Evangelistic Dialogue (N), 1010

Kaplan, Justin

donates Pulitzer Prize money to American Friends Service Committee (N), 885

Karl Barth and the Christian Message, by Colin Brown (Fred H. Klooster) (B), 1203

Kaufmann, U. Milo: The Pilgrim’s Progress and Traditions in Puritan Meditation (John S. Ramsey) (B), 566

Prince Hamlet and the Current Student Revolt (A), 490

Kavanaugh, Father James: A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church (Stuart P. Garver) (B), 1047

Kayumba, Ephraim

elected bishop in Congo Pentecostal church (N), 126

Keele Anglican Evangelical Congress (CRT), 838

Keep the Faith, Baby!, by Adam Clayton Powell (William C. Brownson) (B), 965

Keiper, Ralph L.

to teach at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary (N), 582

Keller, John E.: Ministering to Alcoholics (Owen C. Onsum) (B), 318

Archaeology and our Old Testament Contemporaries (Earl S. Kalland) (B), 517

Kelly, Colin, III

enters Philadelphia Divinity School (N), 1219

Kelsey, David H.: The Fabric of Paul Tillich’s Theology (Gordon H. Clark) (B), 964

Kelso, James L.

report on Israeli crisis (N), 1051

Kennedy, Gerald

on intra-Protestant ecumenism (forum), 381

The Parables (Donald Macleod) (B), 1148

Kennedy, John F.

reflections on his assassination (E), 161

Kennedy, Jon Reid

new chairman of International Christian Youth, U.S.A. (N), 1063

Kerns, Joan: ‘The Judas Tree’ (N), 732

Kessler, J. B. A.

claims church splits in Protestantism have proved a strength (N), 1161

Key Theologian’s Exit Jars Roman Church (N), 415

Keysor, Charles W.

editor of new quarterly (N), 417

What Is ‘Pop’ Music Really Saying? (A), 312

Kilbourn, William (ed.): The Restless Church: A Responseto ‘The Comfortable Pew’ (Ian S. Rennie) (B), 42

King James Version

anthology of selections (B), 168

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

peace through boycott (E), 763

to take time out to write book on civil rights strategy (N), 373

King Windom, by John Farris (Ella Erway) (B), 875

Kingdom of God

and the ‘Political Gospel’ (A), 743

(LF), 350

‘Kingdom of Yahweh’

exposed as mail fraud (N), 419

Kirchentag: Left to the Left, by Jan J. Van Capelleveen (N), 1056

Kirchentag 1967, by John Warwick Montgomery (CRT), 1166

Kirkpatrick, Dow (ed.): The Finality of Christ (David H. Wallace) (B), 268

Kirkwood, Dean R.: Investment in Christian Missions: Waste or Witness? (A), 1034

Kirukhantsev, Anatol, death of (N), 326

Kitchen, K. A.: Ancient Orient and Old Testament (Marvin R. Wilson) (B), 665

Kloetzli, Walter

named social-services director with HUD (N), 1164

Klug, Eugene F.: Dogmatic When It Matters (A), 592

Knight, John L.

new president of Wesley Theological Seminary (N), 836

Koch, Harold M.

defector to USSR—returning (N), 366

Koenig, Franz Cardinal

wins libel suit in Salzberg (N), 780

Korea

birth of the Church in (A), 156

Methodist Church fails to elect—and then elects bishop (N), 186, 677

Koshy. T. E.: Extracting the Cotton (N), 775

India Vote: Extremists Gain (N), 624

India’s Muslim President (N), 928

Nagaland Closed to Missionaries (N), 830

Kotsonis, Jerome

new primate in Greece (N), 928

Kratz, C. Eugene

first president of Maryland Baptist College (N), 60

Kraus, Hans-Joachim: Worship in Israel: A Cultic History of the Old Testament (Edward J. Young) (B), 314

Kregel, Herman J.

first religious coordinator, California state division of alcoholism (N), 1164

Krol, Archbishop John

new cardinal (N), 975

to attend Synod of Bishops in Rome (N), 932

Kroner, Richard: Between Faith and Thought: Reflections and Suggestions (R. Laird Harris) (B), 713

Kucharsky, David E.: Christian ‘Bonanza’ in Bucharest? (N), 178

Confronting the Impasse in Evangelism (A), 542

Memo to Missionaries (Q), 1179

Passing the Plate to Washington (A), 1077

Kucharsky, David E., et al.: Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

Kuhn, Harold B.

A Look at America’s Religion (CRT), 934

Obstacles to Evangelism in the World (A), 82

on the God-is-dead movement (forum), 381

Pre-Thinking Uppsala (CRT), 1221

Still Adolescent? (CRT), 630

Twentieth-Century Evangelism (CRT), 61

Kulbeck, E. N. O.

message to the World Congress on Evangelism (A), 294

president of Canadian Church Press (N), 533

Küng, Hans

comments on celibacy rule (N), 1117

new study of the Church (CRT), 976

to teach at Union Theological Seminary (N.Y.C.) (N), 1014

Künneth, Walter: Hindrances to Evangelism in the Church (A), 78

L

Labor

value of (panel), 1125

Lambeth, Edmund B., et al.: Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

Lamont, Robert J.: What I’ve Learned in Counseling Parents of a Retarded Child (A), 891

Landis, Benson Y., death of (N), 285

Landmark Movement

baptism and (A), 689

Landreville, Justice

confession of lying (E), 711

Landry, Tom

named NFL Coach of the Year (N), 933

Language, Hermeneutic and Word of God, by Robert W. Funk (Lawrence E. Yates) (B), 519

Lapide, Pinchas E.: Three Popes and the Jews (Jakob Jocz) (B), 1046

Larson, Bruce: Setting Men Free (Vance H. Webster) (B), 1259

Last Adam, The: A Study in Pauline Anthropology, by Robin Scroggs (James P. Marlin) (B), 1048

Last Days on the Nile, by Malcolm Forsberg (Francis Rue Steele) (B), 822

Latin America Mission

calls for consultation of evangelists (N), 1247

opens Office of Worldwide Evangelism-in-Depth (N), 677

Latourette, Kenneth Scott

on world revolution and communism (forum), 381

The Influence of the Reformation on World History (A), 1123

Laughing with God, by Frederick W. Danker (A), 344

Lawrence, Brother—See Brother Lawrence

Laws in the Pentateuch and Other Studies, The, by Martin Noth (R. Laird Harris) (B), 1260

Lawson, John: Comprehensive Handbook of Christian Doctrine (Gordon R. Lewis) (B), 770

Layman’s Guide to Presbyterian Beliefs, A, by Addison H. Leitch (David A. Redding) (B), 815

Laymen

evaluating churches (A), 291

lawyer’s involvement with evangelistic agencies (A), 296

Learning in Splitting, by Jan J. van Capelleveen (N), 1161

Leash on the Tax Dollar, A, by Edward H. Pitts (N), 278

Lee, Ivy Ledbetter

public relations and (B), 112

Leger, Emile Cardinal

quoted on priestly celibacy (N), 476

Leisure

Church and the outdoors (B), 273

problems of, in future (forum), 382

Leitch, Addison H.: A Layman’s Guide to Presbyterian Beliefs (David A. Redding) (B), 815

An Unstable Compromise (CRT), 781

For the Sake of Art (CRT), 477

Regarding Evangelism (CRT). 190

Sizing up the Students (CRT), 1064

Lelievre, A.

quoted on ‘remnant’ (A), 940

Lemmons, Reuel: Possibly We Can Get Together (A), 1131

Lenton, T. D.: No Hush for Harold Wilson (N), 116

Lentsch, Ray

imprisoned for distributing tracts on Rhodes (N), 187

Leo, John

joins New York Times (N), 677

Let Student Editors Speak Out (E), 34

Let’s Escape Our Fortress Mentality, by Masumi Toyotome (A), 1183

Let’s Escape ‘The Religious Ghetto’, by Dr. Kenneth Chafin (Q), 36

LeTourneau Foundation

Riedhead, Paris W., first international development director (N), 237

Lewis, C. S.: Christian Reflections (Robert L. Cleath) (B), 815

Faulting the Bible Critics (A), 895

on biblical critics (A), 895

‘Reflections’ commented on (B), 815

Lieberman, George B.

sends Passover message to Russian Jews (N), 837

Life and Death in Ulster, by David Partridge (N), 825

Lightner, Robert P.: The Saviour and the Scriptures (R. Laird Harris) (B), 713

Lilje, Bishop Hanns

referred to on theology (A), 1237

Lilly Foundation

sponsors development of experiential worship services radio programs (N), 1255

Lincoln, C. Eric

first Negro professor at Union Seminary (N), 732

Lindholm, William

heads National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom (N), 476

Lindsay, Kenneth M.

public-relations director of Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (N), 1219

Lindsell, Harold: Changes in the Scofield Reference Bible (B), 711

Tensions in the Seminaries (A), 789

Lindsell, Harold (ed.): The Church’s Worldwide Mission (James D. Belote) (B), 405

Linton, Calvin D.

on the arts (forum), 381

Jesus Christ the Divine Redeemer (booklet), at 561

Listen Before You Speak, by Howard G. Hageman (MW), 214

Listen, Clergymen! (forum), 291

Literature

and Christian life (B), 457

Literature and the Christian Life, by Sallie McFague TeSelle (Calvin D. Linton) (B), 457

Little, Paul E.: How to Give Away Your Faith (Robert L. Cleath) (B), 108

Lloyd-Jones, Martyn

urges evangelicals to form a new church (N), 180

Loane, Marcus: Christ and His Church (booklet), at 957

Loder, James E.: Religious Pathology and Christian Faith (Orville S. Walters) (B), 460

Logan-Vencta, John

new moderator, Presbyterian Church in Canada (N), 975

Lohse, Bernhard: A Short History of Christian Doctrine (J. A. O. Preus) (B), 717

Long, Edward LeRoy, Jr.: A Survey of Christian Ethics (Jesse DeBoer) (B), 1048

Look at America’s Religion, A, by Harold R. Kuhn (CRT), 934

Looking Back at Geneva, by O. Wilson Okite (N), 116

Lord, Bishop John Wesley

proposes Methodist homes for unwed mothers (N), 237

Lord’s Supper—See Communion

Loss of Two Leaders, The (E), 814

Love: Not a Four-letter Word, by Edward E. Plowman (N), 971

Lowell, C. Stanley: Embattled Wall (Harold John Ockenga) (B), 272

Lowry, Charles W., et al.: Churchmen Look at Communism (A), 948

LSD

letter on (L), 604

social conscience vs. personal morality (E), 1147

L.S.D. and Social Conscience (E), 1147

Luce, Henry R., death of (E), 61

Lucid Mr. Luce, The (E), 611

Lugg, Thomas B., death of (N), 1254

Luke, Gospel of

Commentary of (B), 1104

Lundeen, Malvin

first president of Lutheran Council in the U. S. A. (N), 326

Luther, Martin

indulgences and (A), 1227

on Mary (L), 805

quoted on Catholic schismatics (A), 939

quoted on civil magistrates (A), 1027

theology of (B), 874

to be honored in East Germany (N), 235

Lutherans

slight drop in membership (N), 1255

Lutheran Council in the U. S. A.

Malvin Lundeen first president (N), 326

Lutheran Olive Branches, by John Novotney (N), 183

Lutheran World Federation

to expand Radio Voice of the Gospel (N), 932

Lutheranism

American, differs on church/state principles (A), 989

Lutherans

American Lutheran Church

approves closer fellowship with other Lutheran bodies (N), 1063

urges ‘intercommunion’ (N), 183

closer fellowship between Australian and Wisconsin synods (N), 1165

C. Umhau Wolf to direct new Lutheran Institute for Religious Studies (N), 284

drop in elementary school enrollment (N), 583

Evangelical Church in Germany on both sides of the wall (N), 774

Kirchentag

NOG threatens to boycott the (N), 675

LCA-ALC student group urges reunion with Rome (N), 1218

Lutheran Church of America

Arne B. Sovik chosen executive secretary of Board of World Missions (N), 582

Board of American Missions

asks church-wide appeal for funds (N), 582

Lutheran Church of Hungary announces new code (N), 372

Missouri Synod

closer ecumenical contacts (N), 1111

Fundamentalism and (B), 918

Lindsay, Kenneth M., new public-relations director (N), 1219

President Oliver Harms commends President Johnson for Viet Nam ceasefire (N), 326

receipts sluggish for 1967 budget (N), 629

to discuss joining Lutheran World Federation (N), 733

North Carolina Synod requests a week’s study furlough per year for pastors (N), 885

seven Lutherans to teach at Roman Catholic schools this year (N), 1116

three groups meet to plan ministry to urban young adults (N), 975

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

conservative confession adopted (N), 775

Luthuli, Albert J., death of (N), 1119

Lyons, Vernon

accused of littering for passing out Scripture portions (N), 188

Lys, Daniel: The Meaning of the Old Testament (Charles Lee Feinberg) (B), 1047

Lytle, Harold H.: They Are Taking My Church Away From Me (A), 1082

M

Mac—see also Mc

Macquarrie, John: Studies in Christian Existentialism (Jerry H. Gill) (B), 461

MacRae, Andrew D.

views evangelism as church’s greatest contribution (N), 732

Mager, Raimer, death of (N), 188

Magi Beside the Crib, by M. Whitcomb Hess (P), 301

Maginnis, Patricia

abortion teacher (N), 1252

Makesi, Emile

death of, in Congo (N), 1113

Making Non-Pacifism Official, by James Daane (N), 1214

Making of a Marxist, The, by Edward E. Plowman (N), 579

Malawi

four denominations discuss merger (N), 372

Malaysia

Methodists request autonomy (N), 474

‘Man for All Seasons, A’

honored by Catholic and Protestant film boards (N), 533

Man in Community, ed. by Egbert de Vries (C. Gregg Singer) (B), 816

Man, goodness of

Trueblood on (A), 331

Maness, William H.: Listen, Clergymen! (A), 293

Mao Tse-tung

and the youth in Red China (N), 472

Manola, Al, et al:. Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

Mariology

‘Co-Redemptrix’ for Catholics (N), 672

meaning of key terms (N), 673

no barrier to ecumenism? (E), 915

Pope’s Fatima visit (N), 929

Pope Paul’s fourth encyclical (N), 49

Mariolatry: No Bar to Unity? (E), 915

Marney, Carlyle

new director of Interpreter’s House (N), 885

Marriage and sex

Eickhoff on (B), 358

Marriage, mixed

ecumenical flaw in rules (N), 730

Marsden, George M.: Did Success Spoil American Protestantism? (A), 1228

Marsiglius of Padua, referred to (A) 989

Martin, Harold George

denied tax exemption (N), 278

tax trouble in Canada (N), 418

Martin, Harold

first Southern Baptist to work for NCC (N), 835

Martin, Richard B.

elected Episcopal suffragan bishop of Long Island (N), 236

Mary

Luther on (L), 805

Maryknoll Missionary Society

to participate in NCC agency (N), 932

Maryland

minister charged with taking bribes from prison inmates (N), 326

Mascall, Eric: The Christian Universe (Milton D. Hunnex) (B), 270

Mason, David E.: Protestant Magazines Are Changing (A), 14

Mason, David; Henry, Carl F. H.; Cassels, Louis; and Bird, George L.: Crisis in Communication (panel), 4

Massachusetts

Amesbury clergy ask school board to keep Wednesday night free for church activities (N), 419

Massey, James Earl: The Negro Spiritual Interprets Jesus (A), 942

Masters, D. C.: Protestant Church Colleges in Canada: A History (Leslie K. Tarr) (B), 667

Maston, T. B.: Biblical Ethics: A Survey (Reginald Stackhouse) (B), 1006

Materialism

obstacles to evangelism (A), 83

Matthews, Arthur: Merger Plan, Installment One (N), 524

Matthews, Arthur H.: After Hash, a Barbecue (N), 572

Presbyterian Rules Retained (N), 575

Maury, Philippe, death of (N), 975

Maxson, Gloria: Captive (P), 342

May, Herbert G., and Metzger, Bruce M. (ed.): The Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: Revised Standard Version (J. Harold Greenlee) (B), 317

Mc—see also Mac

McAllaster, Elva: The Deacon Has a Wife (P), 434

Statures (P), 990

Treasures of Darkness: After Catastrophe (P), 1032

McConnell, J. P.

‘Catholic chaplains are best’ (N), 885

exhorts chaplains to spend more time with the boys (N), 885

McCracken, Robert J.

to retire from Riverside Church (N), 835

McDormand, Thomas B.

general secretary, Atlantic United Baptist Convention of Canada (N), 1063

to retire as president of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary and College (N), 188

on situational ethics (forum), 381

You Don’t Have to Have It! (A), 693

McElveen, Caroline E.: To a Skeptic (P), 590

McFarland, H. Neill: The Rush Hour of the Gods: A Study of New Religious Movements in Japan (Gordon K. Chapman) (B), 818

McGaughey, Janie

first woman moderator of a presbytery (N), 885

McGeachy, D. P.

recommends that pastors own their own homes (N), 474

McHugh, James

Roman Catholic, to preach at Presbyterian church (N), 975

Mclntire, Carl

Pike’s proposed debate with, postponed (N), 322

McKnight, R. J. G., death of (N), 188

McLemore, R. A.

resigns as president of Mississippi College (N), 416

McLuhan, Marshall

named to Fordham University faculty (N), 413

McQueeny, Thomas

bars Carmichael and Pike from St. Louis University (N), 975

Meaning of the Old Testament, The, by Daniel Lys (Charles Lee Feinberg) (B), 1047

Meaningful Nonsense, by Charles J. Ping (Lawrence E. Yates) (B), 519

Medicine

and the future (forum), 379

Medium is the Expo, The, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 773

Meister, John W.

executive secretary of UP Council on Theological Education (N), 1063

Meland, Bernard Eugene: The Secularization of Modern Culture (John C. Howell) (B), 315

Memo to Missionaries, by David E. Kucharsky (O), 1179

Men of Action in the Book of Acts, by Paul S. Rees (C. Russell Bowers) (B), 718

Mennonites

‘Chapman’ Mennonites migrate to British Honduras (N), 530

Drescher, John M., moderator-elect (N), 1255

leave Canada for Bolivia (N), 1218

Mennonite Brethren Church

forms world conference (N), 371

merges welfare and mission boards (N), 371

Mumaw, John R., new moderator (N), 1255

World Conference (N), 1158

Merger Bug Biting Baptists?, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 1112

Merger Plan, Installment One, by Arthur Matthews (N), 524

Merrill, Eugene H.: An Historical Survey of the Old Testament (Gleason L. Archer) (B), 876

Message in Modern Pop Music, The, by Richard Groves (A), 941

Meteor, by Helen S. Clarkson (P), 1035

Methodists

Army requests more Methodist chaplains (N), 124

Bishop Lord proposes homes for unwed mothers (N), 237

Brimigion, Stephen, treasurer of home missions (N), 126

campus groups vote to join ecumenical organizations (N), 1063

Caribbean and Central American Conference gains independence of British churches (N), 1063

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

joins COCU (N), 568

Church in Malaysia and Singapore asks for autonomy from Methodist General Conference (N), 474

consider joining united church of North India (N), 1218

Dick Gregory offends some in San Francisco (N), 125

discuss the nature of faith with Roman Catholic delegation (N), 371

and the EUB Church (N), 572

evangelism committee appointed by Council (N), 1246

General Conference votes EUB merger (N), 230

Korean Church elects bishop (N), 677

Korean conference fails to elect bishop (N), 186

merger with Anglicans stalls (N), 1113

Methodist Church

Central Jurisdiction to be discontinued (N), 1215

Donald H. Tippett president of Methodist Council of Bishops (N), 780

Drew University theological dean fired (N), 467

EUB merger wins (N), 1052

evangelism at Glide (San Francisco) (N), 825

social concern passing resolutions (N), 829

Good News new publication (N), 417

integration and (N), 52

motive magazine to become magazine of University Christian Movement (N), 60

motive receives journalism award (N), 677

Pilgrim Holiness Church

to merge with Wesleyan Methodists (N), 533

Potts becomes executive director of assembly center, Lake Junaluska, N.C. (N), 326

Primitive Methodist Church

plans ‘spiritual Emphasis Crusade’ (N), 1063

report drop in church membership (N), 629

Smith to head religion and race department (N), 188

treat drug addicts in Australia (N), 124

Wesleyan Methodists

to merge with Pilgrim Holiness Church (N), 533

Methodists, EUBs Vote for Merger (N), 230

Methods of Group Evangelism, The, by A. W. Good win Hudson (A), 100

Methods of Personal Evangelism, by Richard C. Halver son (A), 89

Metzger, Bruce M., and May, Herbert G. (ed.): The Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: Revised Standard Version (J. Harold Greenlee) (B), 317

Metzger, Bruce M., et al. (ed.): The Greek New Testament (Everett F. Harrison) (B), 357

Mexico

RC bishop robbed and strangled (N), 733

two weeks of free medical care provided by Christian Medical Society (N), 1165

villagers jail Baptists as Communists (N), 975

Middle East

criticism of war (L), 1088

Israel in the (LF), 1044

Jewish war destruction (N), 1051

secular history controlled by divine (E), 997

war in Bible lands (E), 956

weighing effects of crisis (N), 1007

Middle East Crisis: A Biblical Backdrop (N), 926

Mideast: Weighing the Effects, by Dwight L. Baker and Harry W. Genet (N), 1007

Mikolaski, Samuel J.: Ecumenism and the Gift of the Spirit (A), 752

Mills, Hayley

conversion of (N), 527

Mills, Ralph J., Jr.: Edith Sitwell (Paul M. Bechtel) (B), 614

Mills, Roger: What I’ve Learned in Counseling an Unhappy Marriage Partner (A), 891

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

riots in (E), 1257

Ministering to Alcoholics, by John E. Keller (Owen C. Onsum) (B), 318

Ministry

drafting of clergy? (N), 470

median salary rise (N), 1165

problems of (B), 315

salaries for clergymen too low (E), 464

temptations of a minister (B), 817

Minor, William

charged with murder of Robert W. Spike (N), 326

Minneapolis

Lutheran minister heads school board (N), 1164

Missing the Mark! (E), 307

Mission in the American Outdoors, ed. by E. W. Mueller and Giles C. Ekola (Glenn W. Samuelson) (B), 273

Missionaries

send home? (A), 985

Missionary Aviation Fellowship

plane missing in New Guinea (N), 1110

Missionary, Come Home?, by Pat H. Carter (A), 985

Missions

appeal to missionaries for news (Q), 1179

Christian Medical Society plans health-insurance for missionaries (N), 1014

colonialism and (B), 315

‘conversion’ not work of (E), 1198

dangerous situation in Nigeria (N), 1210

Disciples of Christ requests greater stewardship (N), 581

equipment troubles for Radio Lumiere (Haiti) (N), 1014

exodus of missionaries (N), 1161

Guinea hampers work (N), 883

in theological perspective (B), 614

Indonesia: fastest mission frontier (N), 778

Latin America Mission

expands high school and university work under Juan M. Isais (N), 475

Lutheran Church of America Board of American Missions requests church-wide appeal for funds (N), 582

missionary force grows in Australia (N), 837

Moody’s missionary aviation training center moved to Elizabethton, Tennessee (N), 1014

Nagaland closed for (N), 830

Pentecostal groups and (forum), 380

Rhodesia prohibits missionaries (N), 1250

training for literacy-missions important (E), 1147

two churches raise over $600, 000 (N), 932

U.S. a field for literacy-missions (E), 1147

‘Unfurl the Missionary Flag’ (E), 1145

UP’s discuss flexible terms for missionaries (N), 1063

upsurge in Canada (N), 777

waste or witness? (A), 1034

World Vision to build ‘missionary embassy’ in Saigon (N), 1014

Mississippi

Child Development Group promised more funds from OEO (N), 419

Committee of Concern rebuilds burned Negro church (N), 583

community leaders ask help in rebuilding bombed church (N), 474

cross-burning at Mount Beulah (N), 780

Missouri Synod Edges Outward (N), 1111

Mitchell, Aaron

dies in California (N), 825

Mitchell, Betty

to return to mission station in Viet Nam (N), 975

Mitchell, Bob

new field director of Young Life Campaign (N), 237

Mixed Marriage Rules: An Ecumenical Flaw (N), 730

Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, A, by Father James Kavanaugh (Stuart P. Garver) (B), 1047

Moffatt, Gene E.: The Anatomy of the Ministry (Richard P. Buchman) (B), 817

Moir, John S. (ed.): The Cross in Canada: Vignettes of the Churches Across Four Centuries (Clarence M. Nicholson) (B), 666

Molnar, Thomas: Utopia: The Perennial Heresy (John Wesley Raley) (B), 1262

Monsma, John Clover (ed.): Behind the Dim Unknown (Albert L. Hedrich) (B), 169

Montgomery, John Warwick

‘Death of God’ Becomes More Deadly (CRT), 286

debate on God (with Altizer) (N), 623

Inductive Inerrancy (CRT), 584

Kirchentag 1967 (CRT), 1166

on the problem of leisure (forum), 382

Vidler at Strasbourg (CRT), 886

Montgomery, John Warwick, et al.: The Bible and the New Morality (panel), 1021

Montgomery, John Warwick, and Altizer, Thomas J. J.: The Waning Death-of-God Tumult (A), 856

Montgomery, Robert Nathanial, death of (N), 885

Moody Bible Institute

moves its missionary aviation center to Elizabethton, Tenn. (N), 1014

Moore, LeRoy, Jr.

to teach at Hartford Seminary Foundation (N), 1014

Moore, Richard E., and Day, Duane L.: Urban Church Breakthrough (William Edmund Bouslough) (B), 457

Moral Law in Christian Social Ethics, by Walter G. Muelder (George I. Mavrodes) (B), 966

Moral Responsibility: Situation Ethics at Work, by Joseph Fletcher (Arthur F. Holmes) (B), 873

Morality

decline of public (E), 711

revolution in (E), 560

situation ethics denounced (E), 218

More Fuel for Flaming Issues in Forthcoming Religious Books, by Robert L. Cleath (A), 438

More Sisters Secularize, by James L. Adams (N), 1161

Morelock, George L., death of (N), 1219

Morgan, Jill: Bethlehem’s Stall (P), 254

Morikawa, Jitsuo

policies attacked (N), 776

Mormon Establishment, The, by Wallace Turner (Harold Lindsell) (B), 359

Mormons

educational requirements to be waived? (N), 777

Mormonism

and Negroes (N), 626

and the religious issue in politics (N), 626

background history of (B), 359

Morrell, George: What I’ve Learned in Counseling a Pastor Who Has Lost His Church (A), 894

Morris, Don H.

recuperating from stroke in November (N), 326

Morris, Leon: Gearing for Action (N), 1247

Morris, Leon, et al.: The Bible and the New Morality (panel), 1021

Morse, Wayne

introduces bill to limit radio-TV advertising of alcoholic beverages (N), 1165

Moscow

Rodger Harrison to become chaplain for English-speaking Protestants (N), 932

Moss, Marquita: Reviewing the Restoration at Abilene (N), 628

Motive

receives award from Columbia University (N), 677

Mounce, Robert

first professor of religious studies, Western Kentucky University (N), 1063

Moyers, Bill D.

becomes publisher of Newsday (N), 373

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick: The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, included in The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy, by Lee Rainwater and William L. Yancey (David O. Moberg) (B), 1260

Moynihan Report, The, and the Politics of Controversy, by Lee Rainwater and William L. Yancey, including the full text of The Negro Family: The Case for National Action by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (David O. Moberg) (B), 1260

Muelder, Walter G.: Moral Law in Christian Social Ethics (George I. Mavrodes) (B), 966

Mueller, E. W., and Ekola, Giles C. (ed.): Mission in the American Outdoors (Glenn W. Samuelson) (B), 273

Mueller, J. Theodore, death of (E), 814; (N), 836

Mueller, Reuben H.

receives Upper Room Citation (N), 373

Mulberger, Lorraine

sells interest in brewery on basis of Romans 14:13 (N), 236

Mumaw, John R.

moderator of the Mennonite Church (N), 1255

Munck, Johannes (ed.): Anchor Bible, Volume 31: The Acts of the Apostles (David W. Mcllvaine) (B), 1150

Murray, John Courtney, death of (N), 1157

Murray, John Courtney, S.J. (ed.): Religious Liberty: An End and a Beginning (James Leo Garrett) (B), 1102

Murray, J. S.: What We Can Learn from the Pentecostal Churches (A), 898

Mushendwa, Elisa

Tanzania’s secretary for political education (N), 1164

Music

message in modern pop (A), 941

Missa Hodierna a jazz composition (N), 228

Negro spirituals interpret Jesus (A), 942

‘pop’ contents of (A), 312

Muste, A. J.

pacifist dies (N), 576

Mutchmor, James R.: The Canadian Churches (A), 637

My Dear Turned-off Brothers, by Eutychus III (L), 756

My Fair Ladies and Gentlemen, by Eutychus III (L), 954

Myers, Bishop C. Kilmer

advocates papal primacy (N), 972

Myers, Jacob M. (ed.): The Anchor Bible, Volume 12: I Chronicles and Volume 13: II Chronicles (Carl E. DeVries) (B), 168

N

NAE—See also National Association of Evangelicals

NAE

history of, reviewed (B), 1002

N.A.E. at 25:. Souls First, Society Second (N), 775

NAE Weighs Future (N), 532

Nagaland Closed to Missionaries, by T. E. Koshy (N), 830

Nagel, Charles, et al.: Is Sunday School a Lost Cause? (panel), 1071

Nakashima, George

on modern art (N), 1216

Nannes, Caspar, et al.: Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

Narcotics

California man pleads that marijuana is essential to his religious practice (N), 533

Stumpf leads drive against drug addiction in Hong Kong (N), 284

Nashville

anti-poverty funds used for ‘liberation school’ (N), 1164

cause of riots (N), 825

siger III (booklet), at 1144

National Association for Pastoral Renewal

leading spokesman marries (N), 1164

National Association of the Church of God

merges with Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) (N), 1057

National Association of Congregational Christian Churches

warned against clerical power (N), 1057

National Association of Evangelicals

and affiliated churches (N), 532

Arthur M. Climenhaga resigns as president (N), 473

offers Bible materials for World Day of Prayer (N), 419

spearheads special evangelism effort from April 1967 to April 1968 (N), 285

twenty-fifth anniversary (N), 775

National Catholic Reporter

praised by John Reedy (N), 933

National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom

organized to finance Supreme Court case (N), 476

National Committee of Negro Churches

plans economic aid to Negro community (N), 975

National Council of Catholic Men

suggests a tax on church’s business income (N), 932

National Council of Churches

appoints Harold Martin promotion assistant for RAVEMCCO (N), 835

Bilheimer visits Viet Nam (N), 1012

breakdown of beliefs (N), 1062

Christian education meeting (N), 572

Church, politics, and (E), 35

closes Hollywood office of Broadcasting and Film Commission (N), 124

elects first RC participating member-agency (N), 932

evangelism and (E), 352

evangelism discussed by (N), 319

film awards to ‘The Gospel According to St. Matthew’ and ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ (N), 533

Flemming only official nominee for president (N), 236

General Board asks for public funds (N), 625

General Board meeting lacks quorum (E), 611

names Rolfe Lanier Hunt editor of International Journal of Religious Education (N), 533

new member of (N), 319

opposes loan to South Africa (E), 453

Parrent, Allan M., assumes post in Department of International Affairs (N), 885

policy statement on Red China (E), 35

pronouncement on conscientious objection (N), 629

publication RCDA in danger (E), 760

publishes prayer leaflet for Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (N), 419

reports on Communist repression (N), 674

Schomer to become executive director of Specialized Ministries Department (N), 284

shatters unity (LF), 556

spokesmen testify on behalf of federal fair-housing law (N), 1218

sponsors campaign to recruit church workers (N), 837

views of evangelism (E), 160

will Roman Catholics join? (N), 464

National Christian Missionary Convention

to merge with International Convention of Christian Churches (N), 1215

National Committee of Negro Churchmen

lack of capital for Negroes (N), 1217

National Faith and Order Colloquim (N), 1010

National Lutheran Campus Ministry

withdraws support of chairs of religion (N), 732

National Negro Evangelical Association

seeks to be active as a rallying point for Negro evangelicals (N), 831

National Sunday School Association

plans Sunday school congress (N), 186

Nationalism

obstacle to evangelism (A), 82

Natural sciences

no conflict with Christianity (B), 169

Nature

scientific exploitation of (E), 404

Nazareth

gets a Christian mayor (N), 577

NCC—See National Council of Churches

NCC Elite, The: A Breakdown of Beliefs (N), 1062

NCC on the Beach: An Opening on the Right (N), 319

NCC Opposes Loans to South Africa (E), 453

Need for a Christian University, The, by Carl F. H. Henry (A), 485

Negro Churchmen Lament Lack of Capital (N), 1217

Negro Spiritual Interprets Jesus, The, by James Earl Massey (A), 942

Negroes

and Mormonism (N), 626

Neill, Stephen: Colonialism and Christian Missions (Harold Lindsell) (B), 315

Neiswender, Donald R.: Found Too Late: The Word of God (A), 199

Nelson, Emil

named national evangelism consultant for Salvation Army (N), 1063

Netherlands

joint mass helps to unite Roman Catholics and Old Catholics (N), 371

Mennonite 8th World Conference (N), 1158

pastor protests military spending by withholding 15% of tax payment (N), 533

Pope issues warning to Dutch liberals (N), 327

RC and Reformed Churches to recognize each other’s baptism (N), 1117

Netherlands Reformed Church

Christian Institute members ousted (N), 971

Dutch aid in Bible study to be published (N), 364

Neurophysiology

will become more precise (forum), 382

New Birth (LF), 30

New Catholic Encyclopedia (Carl F. H. Henry) (B), 916

New Circulation Policy (E), 610

New Clarendon Bible, The: The Acts, ed. by R. P. C. Hanson (David W. Mcllvaine) (B), 1150

New Commentaries Highlight Old Testament Publications, by J. Barton Payne (A), 429

New Directions in Theology Today, Volume I: Introduction, by William Hordern (Edward John Carnell) (B), 220

New Directions in Theology Today, Volume II: History and Hermeneutics, by Carl E. Braaten (Edward John Carnell) (B), 220

New Directions in Theology Today, Volume V: Christian Life, by Paul Hessert (Charles E. Hummel) (B), 1100

New Era for Christian Communication (E), 3

New Evangelistic Frontiers, by Wilber Sutherland (A), 651

New Guinea

missionary plane missing (N), 1110

New Immorality, The, by David A. Redding (Milton D. Hunnex) (B), 1098

New Left

new movement (A), 1067

New Light on the Confession of 1967, by John H. Gerstner (A), 244

New Look at Abortion, by Russell Chandler (N), 1247

New morality

Bible and (panel), 1021

change of rules (LF), 1090

during the past decade (N), 58

rejection of—needed (E), 1040

review of book on (B), 1003

symposium held at Evangelical Theological Society meeting (N), 419

theological error of (B), 1098

New Nuns, The, by William D. Freeland (N), 930

New Religious Approaches to the Campus, by Martin L. Singewald (A), 483

New Role for Shirley Temple, A (E), 98

New Spirit of Defiance, The (E), 307

New Testament

anti-Semitism in? (A), 548

Bible Society’s Greek (B), 357

books of 1966 (A), 433

in Choi—story of (A), 1020

foundations of Christology (B), 166

Holy Spirit in the (A), 753

message of conversion (A), 1019

Today’s English Version (B), 317

New Theology and Morality, The, by Henlee H. Barnette (Milton D. Hunnex) (B), 1098

New Thoughts on Campus Ministries (E), 998

New Voice in Christian Verse, by E. Margaret Clarkson (A), 653

New York

for educational state aid (N), 1161

New York Times

John Cogley to resign as religion editor (N), 326

New York

ends mandatory matching of religion in adoption and custody cases (N), 1219

New Zealand

historicity of resurrection denied (N), 674

News

Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

coverage of religion, faulty and incomplete (A), 11

Newsday

Bill D. Moyers new publisher (N), 373

Next Year in the New Jerusalem? (E), 997

Nicea

ecumenical council (A), 945

Nichiren Shoshu

American Buddhist sect growing (N), 1119

Nichol, John Thomas: Pentecostalism (John E. Dahlin) (B), 517

Niemöller, Martin

to teach at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, in 1969 (N), 1014

Nigeria

Baptist leader predicts permanent split (N), 975

denies visa to South African Wycliffe worker (N), 327

Nihilism

analysis of the New Left (A), 1067

Nissiotis, N. A.

first Orthodox associate general secretary of the WCC (N), 1255

New York City

Protestant Council restructured (N), 780

New Zealand

controversy over immortality (N), 732

Nigeria

missions in (N), 1210

Nikodim, Metropolitan

visits U.S. (N), 733

Ninetieth Congress, The: A Religious Census (N), 276

Nixon, Leroy: All Scripture Is Profitable (MW), 1000

No Hush for Harold Wilson, by T. D. Lenton (N), 116

‘No Other God,’ by Gabriel Vahanian (David Allan Hubbard) (B), 615

No Other Gospel

German confessional movement resists modern theology (N), 675

No Threat to Secularism (E), 867

Noth, Martin: The Laws in the Pentateuch and Other Studies (R. Laird Harris) (B), 1260

Nonsensical Touch, The (E), 867

Nordenhaug, Josef, et al.: The Gospel and World Religion (panel), 248

North American Christian Convention

draws 11,000 to Tampa (N), 1057

Northridge, William L., death of (N), 420

Northup, Robert W.

to teach at NYTS (N), 975

Not for the Indifferent (E), 657

Noteworthy Advances in the New Testament Field, by F. F. Bruce (A), 433

Novotney, John: Lutheran Olive Branches (N), 183

Nuclear energy

true role of (forum), 382

Nuns

Protestant (N), 931

RC in new habits (N), 930

O

Oberammergau Passion Play

director quits over anti-Semitism issue (N), 187

Oberammergau Passion Play to Britain (N), 883

O’Boyle, Patrick

new cardinal (N), 975

Obstacles to Evangelism in the World, by Harold B. Kuhn (A), 82

Ockenga, Harold John: The Basic Theology of Evangelism (A), 73

Offering of Uncles, An: The Priesthood of Adam and the Shape of the World, by Robert Farrar Capon (James W. Sire) (B), 769

Ogden, Schubert M.: The Reality of God and Other Essays (William Young) (B), 459

Oglesby, Carl, and Schaull, Richard: Containment and Change (Edmund A. Opitz) (B), 917

O’Hair, Madalyn Murray

debafes historicity of Jesus Christ (N), 123

O’Hara, Geoffrey, death of (N), 583

Oke, Norman R.: What I’ve Learned in Counseling a Dying Person (A), 892

Okite, O. Wilson: Arabic Baptists in America (N), 280

‘Black Power’ in Church (N), 180

Looking Back at Geneva (N), 116

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

St. Francis de Sales Seminary facilities rented as retreat center (N), 1165

Old Country Has Changed, The, by Jan J. van Capelleveen (N), 1158

Old and New in Interpretation: A Study of the Two Testaments, by James Barr (David P. Scaer) (B), 358

Old Testament

Ancient Orient and the (B), 665

books of 1966 (A), 429

and the Church (B), 272

historical survey of (B), 876

meaning of (B), 1047

uniqueness of, reviewed (B), 1003

Olford, Stephen F.: Preaching the Word (MW), 1096

Ordination and Christian Unity, by E. P. Y. Simpson (James Daane) (B), 1004

Olson, Arnold T.

approves Roman Catholic move for common Christian Bible (N), 326

on preaching mission to troops in Viet Nam (N), 583

Olson, Stanley W.

director of new Midsouth Regional Medical Center and medical professor at Vanderbilt (N), 420

O’Meara, Edward T.

replaces Fulton J. Sheen as director of Society for the Propagation of the Faith (N), 473

One Race, One Gospel, One Task (E), 216

Open Letter to Jane Ordinary, An, by Andre Bustanoby (A), 598

Opperman, Kenn W.

plans Christian center for Toronto (N), 882

Order of Canada

inscribed with Hebrews 11:16 (N), 975

Orlov, Ilia

Russian Baptist to visit U.S. (N), 733

Orsborn, Albert W. T., death of (N), 583

Osborn, Robert T.: Freedom in Modern Theology (Frederic R. Howe) (B), 1148

Orthodoxy

and today’s theology (A), 748

Meliton Hadjis elected Metropolitan of Chalcedon (N), 237

new Greek government shakes up state church (N), 881

Pope visits ecumenical Patriarch (N), 1114

religious intolerance in Greece (E), 1198

scholars plan ‘American Orthodox Bible’ (N), 836

Orthodoxy’s Shaky Citadel, by J. D. Douglas (N), 120

Orthodoxy’s Task in an Age of Theological Confusion, by Geoffrey W. Bromiley (A), 748

Ortlund, Raymond C.: What I’ve Learned in Counseling a Member Arrested by Police (A), 892

Osborn, Ronald

president-elect of International Convention of Christian Churches (N), 60

Osterhaven, M. Eugene: Are Catholic and Protestant Clergy Moving Toward Inter-Communion? (A) 1232

Other Son of Man, The: Ezekiel/Jesus, by Andrew W. Blockwood, Jr. (Larry L. Walker) (B), 968

Overseas Missionary Fellowship

Griffiths, Michael C., to succeed J. Oswald Sanders in 1969 (N), 1255

Oxford Annotated Bible, The, with the Apocrypha: Revised Standard Version, ed. by Herbert G. May and Bruce M. Metzger (J. Harold Greenlee) (B), 317

Oxnam, Robert

students demand ouster as president of Drew University (N), 780

P

Paine, Stephen W.

new president. Evangelical Theological Society (N), 419

Paisley, Ian

released from Irish prison (N), 187

Pannell, William E., et al.: Is Sunday School a Lost Cause? (panel), 1071

Parables, The, by Gerald Kennedy (Donald Macleod) (B), 1148

Park Street Church of Boston

raises over $300, 000 for missions (N), 932

Parrent, Allan M.

assumes post in NCC’s Department of International Affairs (N), 885

Partridge, David: Life and Death in Ulster (N), 825

Pascoe, Peter

new pastor at Taylor University (N), 1164

Passing the Plate to Washington, by David E. Kucharsky (A), 1077

Passover Plot, The: New Light on the History of Jesus, by Hugh J. Schonfield (Henry W. Coray) (B), 269

Passover Ploy, The (N), 622

Paterson, Evangeline: A Poem for My Father (P), 313

Pattern of Christ, The, by David H. C. Read (Donald Macleod) (B), 1148

Patterson, George N.: Hong Kong: How Long? (N), 974

Paul

theology of (B), 1048

Paul Blanshard on Vatican II, by Paul Blanshard (James Leo Garrett) (B), 1102

Paul, Leslie: Alternatives to Christian Belief (Howard A. Redmond) (B), 771

Paul, Robert S.

to teach at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (N), 1255

Payne, Ernest A.

retires as general secretary of Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland (N), 1118

Payne, J. Barton: New Testament Commentaries Highlight Old Testament Publications (A), 429

Payton, Benjamin F.

new president, Benedict College (N), 885

Peace

King suggests war boycott (E), 763

Pope Paul’s ambassador to Viet Nam (N), 51

Pope Paul’s fourth encyclical (N), 49

supernatural help needed (E), 1043

Peace in Church Tax Case, War in War on Poverty, by Edward H. Pitts (N), 123

Peace, Paul, and Mary, by Edward H. Pitts (N), 49

Peace through Boycott? (E), 763

Pearl Harbor

Japanese attacker returns (N), 366

Pennington, Chester A.: With Good Reason (Frank Sargent) (B), 1105

Pennsylvania

to offer high school course in religious literature (N), 372

Pentateuch

laws in the (B), 1260

Pentecost

Church lacks power (E), 708

Pentecostal Holiness Church

unites with two Wesleyan denominations in Chili (N), 1218

Pentecostals

great gain in Brazil (N), 1113

history of (B), 517

making non-pacifism official (N), 1214

(name) in Russia (L), 304

plan Latin American university (N), 974

world conference at Rio (N), 1113

Pentecostalism

what we can learn from (A), 898

Pentecostalism, by John Thomas Nichol (John E. Dahlin) (B), 517

Pennsylvania

Bible distribution in public schools (N), 932

People’s Church of Toronto

raises $325, 000 for missions (N), 932

Perry, Albert Q.

pacifist candidate in Rhode Island (N), 780

Persecution

of Christians in Turkey (L), 512

Person Reborn, The, by Paul Tournier (Frank Bateman Stanger (B), 615

Person and Counselor: Responsive Counseling in the Christian Context, by Paul E. Johnson (Gordon Stanley) (B), 819

Perspectives on 19th and 20th Century Protestant Theology, by Paul Tillich (Gordon H. Clark) (B), 964

PERT

and world evangelism (N), 51

Peru

Protestant split a strength (N), 1161

Peter

sermon at Pentecost analyzed (A), 152

Peter DeVries, by Roderick Jellema (Paul M. Bechtel) (B), 614

Petersen, Robert

claims marijuana essential to religious beliefs (N), 533

Pew, J. Howard: Listen, Clergymen! (A), 293

Pfeiffer, Charles F.: The Biblical World: A Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology (Francis I. Andersen) (B), 268

Philadelphia

Presbytery questions deletion of Larger Catechism (N), 780

Philanthropy

48% of all giving for religious purposes (N), 836

Philbrick, Richard: A Debate on God (N), 623

Philippine Catholic Zealots, by Eustaquio Ramientos, Jr. (N), 1210

Philippines

bus disaster near Manila (N), 419

political parties in (N), 1210

Phillips, J. B.: Ring of Truth (Paul Rader) (B), 768

Philosophy

analytical-theological ethics (B), 360

Pike, Bishop James A.

and his book If This Be Heresy (N), 1156

beliefs of (N), 234

demands a trial (N), 181

does not appear for debate on Pyne’s show (N), 322

Episcopalians and (E), 1147

heresy case dropped? (N), 467

heresy trial of, considered (N), 122

putting his church on trial (E), 217

on Christian education (N), 572

on RC wealth (N), 726

on tax-free RC income (N), 829

removed from House of Bishops (N), 582

successor to, answers questions (N), 182

wife wins divorce decree (N), 1112

You and the New Morality—74 Cases (William C. Brownson) (B), 1003

Pike Demands a Trial, by Edward H. Pitts (N), 181

Pike Puts His Church on Trial (E), 217

Pike’s Replacement, by Jerome F. Politzer (N), 182

Pilgrim Holiness Church

to merge with Wesleyan Methodist Church (N), 533

Pilgrim’s Progress, The, and Traditions in Puritan Meditation, by U. Milo Kaufmann (John S. Ramsey) (B), 566

Ping, Charles J.: Meaningful Nonsense (Lawrence E. Yates) (B), 519

Pitfalls, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 1194

Pitts, Charles A.: Listen, Clergymen! (A), 293

Pitts, Edward H.: Baptists Scan U. S. Aid (N), 279

A Leash on the Tax Dollar (N), 278

Peace in Church Tax Case, War in War on Poverty (N), 123

Peace, Paul, and Mary (N), 49

Pike Demands a Trial (N), 181

Pius XII

anti-semitism and (B), 1046

Pleasure

North America’s preoccupation with (E), 866

Plowman, Edward E.: Billy Graham Faces Berkeley Rebels (N), 526

Ferment at Berkeley’s Baptist Seminary (N), 323

The Making of a Marxist (N), 579

Pointers from Hunters Point (N), 116

When to Pull the Plug (N), 1161

Plowman, Edward E.: Glide (N), 825

Love: Not a Four-letter Word (N), 971

Rescue Mission Stew (N), 774

Plowman, Edward E.: Tragedies for Bishop Pike (N), 1112

POAU

plans ‘Religious Liberty Center’ in Washington (N), 49

Pocket Testament League

to distribute Scriptures in Viet Nam (N), 124

Podgorny, Nikolai V.

confers with the Pope (N), 528

Poem for My Father, A, by Evangeline Paterson (P), 313

Poetry

Deacon Has a Wife, The: by Elva McAllcrster (P), 434

Fool Hath Said, The, by Marie J. Post (P), 431

Margaret Avison in Canada (A), 653; (B), 665

new Canadian voice (A), 653

St. Matthew 25.42, by Henry Hutto (P), 436

Pointers from Hunters Point, by Edward E. Plowman (N), 116

Poland

Baptists print evangelistic tracts (N), 723

government plans to close six Catholic seminaries (N), 372

Poling, Daniel, et al.: Churchmen Look at Communism (A), 948

Political Spectacle of 1966, The (E), 99

Politics

and the Church (A), 743

California not to toughen anti-obscenity laws (N), 233

candidates and issues of 1966 (E), 99

church activities in elections (N), 232

church used for sectarian ends (A), 944

election afterthoughts (E), 219

NCC, the Church, and (E), 35

outcomes of issues in elections (N), 232

religious blocks and political preferences for presidential candidates (N), 60

religious issue in 1968 (N), 626

‘worst incursion of churchmen into’ (A), 1171

Politzer, Jerome F.: Pike’s Replacement (N), 182

Pollard, William G.

on the nuclear threat (forum), 382

Polygamy

‘scant biblical evidence to support opposition’ (N), 1119

Pop music

new way of witness? (A), 941

Pope Paul VI

calls first meeting of Synod of Bishops for September 29, 1967 (N), 418

cites discouraging obstacles to Catholic education (N), 474

confers with Soviet president (N), 528

Easter encyclical (E), 711; (N), 725

fourth encyclical (N), 49

makes Gallup’s ‘most admired’ list (N), 419

may address 1968 WCC assembly in Sweden (N), 629

no political motive in Fatima visit (N), 880

on economics (N), 725

silent on birth control (E), 219

underscores ban on jazz and experimentation in the mass (N), 419

visits Istanbul (N), 1114

Pope Who Fails to Speak, The (E), 219

Population

growth outpaces church growth (N), 416

increase of non-Christians (forum), 380

Pornography

California nudity magazines banned in Singapore (N), 285

Congress seeks ways to limit (N), 1165

conviction of San Francisco booksellers (N), 971

Shirley Temple crusades against (E), 98

Supreme Court kills obscenity convictions (N), 885

U.S. House to control (N), 1165

Portugal

Pope Paul’s visit to Fatima shrine (N), 880; 929

Possibly We Can Get Together, by Reuel Lemmons (A), 1131

Post, Marie J.: The Fool Hath Said … (P), 431

Post Mortem: Confession of ‘67 (E), 915

Potter, Rockwell H., death of (N), 975

otts, J. Manning

executive director of Methodist assembly center, Lake Junaluska, N.C. (N), 326

owell, Adam Clayton

again before Congress (E), 763

controversy over (N), 627

enigma of (N), 466

in perspective (E), 1041

Keep the Faith, Baby! (William C. Brownson) (B), 965

seating in congress questioned (E), 307

sermons by, reviewed (B), 965

Powell before the House (E), 763

Prayer

failure to avail ourselves of (LF), 310

function of true (B), 770

public schools and (E), 959

two-way communication (LF), 764

Prayer for a Heart’s Spring, by Joanne Rhudy Harrison (P), 745

Prayer in the Schools (E), 959

Preacher’s Temptations, A, by James H. Blackmore (Richard P. Buchman) (B), 817

Preaching—See also Homiletics

by Apostles then and now (LF), 868

expository, on Bible books (MW), 1000

involves preparation of the preacher (MW), 962

most important (A), 901

relation between p. and service (E), 957

Preaching: Hard Work, Plus, by John Schmidt (MW), 962

Preaching in Series, by Harold L. Fickett, Jr. (MW), 37

Preaching the Word, by Stephen F. Olford (MW), 1096

Preaching Through the Bible, by W. A. Criswell (MW), 262

Prentice, Sartell: The Heritage of the Cathedral (Carl H. Droppers) (B), 1150

Presbyterian Assembly Ratifies Confessional Shift, by James Montgomery Boice (N), 922

Presbyterian Journal

observes twenty-fifth anniversary (N), 885

Presbyterian Rules Retained, by Arthur H. Matthews (N), 575

Presbyterianism

distortion of the representative principle (A), 1083

resbyterians

Atlanta presbytery elects first woman moderator (N), 885

autonomous denomination created in Cuba (N), 533

build hospital and home for aged (N), 124

Chandler, Ralph C., secretary for international affairs, U.P. Office of Church and Society (N), 885

Church of Scotland

discussion on sex (N), 971

interchurch relations in (N), 970

church refuses to integrate South Carolina orphanage (N), 932

Confession of 1967 (L), 512

Cumberland Presbyterian Church

observers to COCU (N), 1058

financial responsibility for CDGM (N), 530

guide to beliefs (B), 815

historic Tent Church faces merger (N), 414

Johnson, Robert Pierre, first Negro general presbyter in New York City (N), 1015

jury grants property rights to two Presbyterian churches (N), 419

Kentucky presbytery urges open housing legislation (N), 932

merger in the South? (N), 122

‘new improved’ (LF), 555

Philadelphia Presbytery questions deletion of Larger Catechism (N), 780

Presbyterian Church in Canada

to discuss merger (N), 1009

women vote for the first time (N), 1009

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.

annual meeting of the General Assembly (N), 1008

ecumenism in education (N), 180

J. Hervey Ross named first medical secretary of Board of World Missions (N), 236

old rules retained (N), 575

Roberts asked to resign from Swarthmore Presbyterian Church over civil rights issue (N), 284

Southern

call to evangelize (E), 1257

schism in Cameroun (L), 757

Taiwan church votes to stay in W.C.C. (N), 1117

Texans approve first woman ministerial candidate (N), 1164

United Presbyterian Church

Confession of 1967 approved (N), 922

Confession of 1967

approved (N), 624

caution is needed (E), 402

headed toward adoption (N), 572

incorporated in ‘Book of Confessions’ (E), 915

new light on (A), 244

not true Presbyterianism (A), 1082

Pennsylvania church refuses to subscribe (N), 1063

unstable compromise (CRT), 781

discuss flexible missionary terms (N), 1063

indictment of the laymen of (L), 1241

joins Roman Catholics in producing ecumenical recording (N), 475

lawsuit on Larger Catechism? (N), 727

membership drop (N), 922

Meister, John W., executive secretary of Council

on Theological Education (N), 922

shortcomings of ‘Faith and Life’ curriculum (E), 999

Presbyterians at Ottawa, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 1009

Presbyterians United for Biblical Confession

to continue as evangelistic organization (N), 835

President

church attendance not to be made public (N), 577

Presidential prayer breakfast

Henry Fowler speaker at (N), 527

Press

Christian Herald may fold (N), 1053

Church and the (A), 8

Press, evangelical

important for Christians (E), 98

Pre-Thinking Uppsala, by Harold B. Kuhn (CRT), 1221

Preus, David W.

president of Minneapolis school board (N), 1164

Price, J. Gerald

buys plane for missionary work with trading stamps (N), 533

Prince Hamlet and the Current Student Revolt, by U. Milo Kaufmann (A), 490

Progress, inevitability of

Trueblood on (A), 331

Project Equality

boycotting the business world (E), 611

Promoting an Errant Bible (E), 1043

Prophetic Preaching Today, by Henry O. Thompson (MW), 1140

Protestant Church Colleges in Canada: A History, by D. C. Masters (Leslie K. Tarr) (B), 667

Protestant Faith and Religious Liberty, by Philip Wogaman (Graham L. Hales) (B), 1152

Protestant Magazines Are Changing, by David E. Mason (A), 14

Protestant Reformation

civil magistrate and the (A), 1026

Protestant Reformers and the Civil Magistrate, The, by W. Stanford Reid (A), 1026

Protestantism

Gallup Poll ranks Protestant groups (N), 1115

birthday of (A), 1227

lacking in religious education (E), 867

magazines are changing (A), 14

merger discussion (N), 568

ominous future of (B), 713

pastors in Spain refuse to register churches (N), 1161

reflections on—in America (A), 1228

split in Peru may prove a strength (N), 1161

success—spoiling American? (A), 1228

Protestantism’s Birthday: The Importance of 1517, by Norman V. Hope (A), 1227

Protestants

intercommunion with Roman Catholics? (A), 1232

join Roman Catholics in running Harlem counseling center (N), 124

Psychiatry

evangelicals and (E), 309

Psychology

faith after Freud (B), 170

Public relations

Ivy Lee and (B), 112

Public schools

aid to be distributed by federal government (N), 932

and the Amish (N), 530

‘Bible Literature’ course approved for Harlan, Kentucky, high school (N), 285

federal aid to, challenged (N), 322

new prayer bill proposed (N), 471

Pennsylvania to offer elective high school course in religious literature (N), 372

prayer amendment suffers setback (N), 47

prayer in (E), 959

Publishing

Christian Times, new publication, Jan. 1967 (N), 364

function of the religious press (N), 775

John Knox Press

new policy adopted (N), 1009

Sunday Times in new format, Dec. 3, 1966 (N), 364

Puerto Rico

Graham’s crusade draws crowds (N), 722

Puerto Rico: Cracking the Outer Shell, by William Freeland (N), 722

Pusey, Nathan M.: Faith’s Waning Power to Enthrall (Q), 790

Putting Missionaries Out of Business (E), 1198

Q

Quakers

Action Group delivers supplies to North Viet Nam (N), 780

aid to North Vietnam blocked by U.S. Treasury Dept. (N), 533

first world conference (N), 1158

Quanbeck, Warren A. (ed.): Challenge and Response: A Protestant Perspective of the Vatican Council (Charles A. Bolton) (B), 716

Quealy, Michael J., death of (N), 1012

R

Race and Riots Engage United Church, by James L. Adams (N), 1054

Race relations

America in crisis (B), 221

Anglican evangelicals and (N), 835

Christian Council of Rhodesia condemns racial separation (N), 780

during the past decade (N), 58

enforced laws by government (forum), 381

new church in Macon, Georgia, formed from congregation split by race issue (N), 371

North Carolina church accepts Ghanian member (N), 188

Presbyterians refuse to integrate South Carolina orphanage (N), 932

San Francisco rioting touched off by ‘excusable homicide’ (N), 187

San Francisco riots (N), 116

Southern Baptists forbidden to mention race during South African crusade (N), 780

summer of discontent (E), 1043

Race-Track Evangelism, by Wilbert Forker (N), 674

Radio Voice of the Gospel

to reach Angola, Mozambique, and Latin America (N), 932

Rahner, Karl, S.J. (ed.): Concilium, Volume 23: The Pastoral Approach to Atheism (Frank Sargent) (B), 1105

Rainwater, Lee and Yancey, William L.,: The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy, including the full text of The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (David O. Moberg) (B), 1260

Ramientos, Eustaquio, Jr.: Philippine Catholic Zealots (N), 1210

Ramm, Bernard

on trends in theology (forum), 382

Ramsey, Arthur Michael

Canadians protest his statement (N), 121

Ramsey on Political Ecumenism (Q), 1173

Ramsey, Paul

on political ecumenism (Q), 1173; (E), 1196

Ramsey, Ian T. (ed.): Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy (William W. Bass) (B), 360

Ramsey vs. Canadian Press, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 121

Ranson, Charles W.

Drew University theological dean fired (N), 467

Rationalism

obstacle to evangelism (A), 86

Rawlings, Elden E.: Holiness Unity on Tiptoe (N), 322

Ray, Chandu: What God Has Done (A), 142

Ray, Maurice

leads meeting of French-speaking evangelicals (N), 932

RCDA

NCC publication in danger (E), 760

NCC shows interest in (N), 972

Reaching the ‘Now’ Generation (E), 609

Read, David H. C.: The Pattern of Christ (Donald Macleod) (B), 1148

Read Your Way to Theological Literacy, by Robert L. Cleath (A), 1200

Reagan, Ronald

on religion (N), 527

Reality of Christianity, The: A Study of Adolf von Harnack as Historian and Theologian, by G. Wayne Glick (Robert H. Gundry) (B), 1152

Reality of God, The, and Other Essays, by Schubert M. Ogden (William Young) (B), 459

Reapsome, James W.

chaplain and religion professor at Malone College (N), 1219

Recharging the Batteries, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 396

Recovering the Apostolic Dynamic, by Fernando Vangioni (A), 149

Recovery of the Teaching Ministry, The, by J. Stanley Glen (Edward L. Hayes) (B), 1002

Red Cross

roots of, in Reformation (A), 1124

Red Guards: China’s Mini-Mao Revivalists, by Michael Browne (N), 472

Redding, David A.: The New Immorality (Milton D. Hunnex) (B), 1098

Redemption

always associated with blood (LF), 660

Redemptive Fellowship, A, by D. Elton Trueblood (Q), 336

Redpath, Alan

resigns pastorate for health reasons (N), 474

Reed, Oscar F., et al.: Beacon Bible Commentary, Volume V: The Minor Prophets (Bruce K. Waltke) (B), 222

Reedy, John

cites importance of National Catholic Reporter (N), 933

Rees, Paul S.: Men of Action in the Book of Acts (C. Russell Bowers) (B), 718

Reeves, Timothy

imperial chaplain of Shriners (N), 1164

Reformation

birthday of Protestantism (A), 1227

challenges of (A), 146

concept of sin (A), 539

establishment of Reformation Day (E), 1256

influence on world history (A), 1123

inner meaning of (A), 145

major source of democracy (A), 1124

one of the greatest revolutions (E), 1256

Red Cross springs from (A), 1124

reflections on (CRT), 678

theology of the English Reformers (B), 966

UN outgrowth of (A), 1124

various views of (A), 144

Reformation 1517 and 1966, by Gerhard Bergmann (A), 144

Reformed Church

Hungarian, marks 400th anniversary (N), 780

Reformed Church in America

annual meeting

in favor of merging with Southern Presbyterians (N), 1008

Reformed churches

Dutch Reformed Church of Cape Province (South Africa)

rejoins World Presbyterian Alliance (N), 186

Reformed Doctrine of Sanctification, by Cary N. Weisiger III (booklet), at 1144

Reformed Dogmatics, by Herman Hoeksema (M. Eugene Osterhaven) (B), 964

Regarding Evangelism, by Addison H. Leitch (CRT), 190

Regeneration

man’s basic need (E), 98

spiritual rebirth (LF), 455

Regeneration and Sanctification, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 455

Regional Church Plan

frames strategy for New York area Protestant churches (N), 677

Reid, Ian

new leader of Iona Community (N), 975

Reid, W. Stanford: The Flowing Ecumenical Tide (A), 643

Reid, W. Stanford: The Protestant Reformers and the Civil Magistrate (A), 1026

Reidhead, Paris W.

first international development director for LeTourneau Foundation (N), 237

Reinberger, Francis E.: How to Pray (C. Ralston Smith) (B), 770

Reinforcing the Wall Between Church and State, by Paul Woolley (A), 988

Religion

breakdown of political preferences for presidential candidates according to religious affiliation (N), 60

Gospel and world (panel), 248

in America (CRT), 934

influence declining in American life (N), 125

‘losing its influence on American life’ (N), 836

new religions in Japan (B), 818

news reporting of (A), 8

origins and ideas (B), 1005

‘outgrown need for’ (A), 1075

personal (LF), 910

relation between Christianity and other religions (B), 872

science and (B), 108

statistics on religious belief in Kazan, Soviet Union N), 1218

TV and (E), 32

under Communism (E), 760

Religion in a Modern Society, by H. J. Blackham (Howard A. Redmond) (B), 771

Religion in Contemporary Debate, by Alan Richardson (David Allan Hubbard) (B), 716

Religion in a Test-Tube (N), 474

Religion: Origins and Ideas, by Robert Brow (James I. Packer) (B), 1005

Religion’s New Entree to the City Room, by George W. Cornell (A), 8

Religious Films at Best and Worst (E), 762

Religious Heritage of America

names Blake Churchman of the Year (N), 780

Religious Issue, The—1968 (N), 626

Religious liberty

Protestant faith and (B), 1152

Spain and (E), 308

Vatican II and (B), 1102

Religious Liberty: An End and a Beginning, ed. by John Courtney Murray, S.J. (James Leo Garrett) (B), 1102

Religious Newswriters Association

Cassels, Louis, wins Supple Award (N), 1118

Religious Pathology and Christian Faith, by James E. Loder (Orville S. Walters) (B), 460

Religious Public Relations Council

Taylor, Winston H., new president (N), 836

Religious press

circulation of (A), 18

opportunities of (A), 14

Religious thinkers, death of great

during the past decade (N), 59

Remember the Reformation! (E), 1256

Rennie, Ian S.: The Changing Church (A), 640

Repentance

Church and (A), 747

Rescue Mission Stew, by Edward E. Plowman (N), 774

Restless Church, The: A Response to ‘The Comfortable Pew’, ed. by William Kilbourn (lan S. Rennie) (B), 42

Restless Quest of Modern Man, The, by William Graham Cole (David A. Redding) (B), 619

Restoration Movement

Christian Churches and (L), 758

Resurrection

denied by liberal theology (A), 588

key to mystery of Jesus (A), 587

stressed by Paul (A), 587

theological implications of (A), 590

Resurrection in New Zealand, by E. M. Blaiklock (N), 674

Revelation and Reason, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 163

Revelation of God

part played by Althaus, Barth, and Brunner (CRT), 374

God’s, in various ways (LF), 163

Reviewing the Restoration at Abilene, by Marquita Moss (N), 628

Reviewing Revelation, by G. C. Berkouwer (CRT), 374

RSV—See Revised Standard Version

Revised Standard Version

modified version for Catholics (B), 44

Reviving a Medieval Mentality (E), 1198

Revolution

University Christian Movement and ideas of (B), 917

Revolution in Morality, The (E), 560

Rideout, George M.: Listen, Clergymen! (A), 293

Reynolds, E. R., Jr.: Islam’s Zealous Spin-off (N), 280

Reynolds, J. Berkley

A ‘spiritual Bigamist’ (N), 467

Canada: Evangelical Pallor (N), 721

Canada Maps Divorce Reform (N), 728

Canada: Missions Upsurge (N), 777

Canadian Council Revamps (N), 321

Canadian Merger: Rocky Voyage (N), 880

Degree Mill to Orphan Mill (N), 278

Expo 67: Dual Approach (N), 369

Merger Bug Biting Baptists? (N), 1112

Presbyterians at Ottawa (N), 1009

Ramsey vs. Canadian Press (N), 121

Rocky Courtship in Canada (N), 230

The Heresy of Ernest Harrison (N), 628

The Medium is the Expo (N), 773

Rhodes

Ray Lentsch imprisoned for distributing tracts (N), 187

Rhodesia

Charles Blakney fined for ‘anti-police’ sermon (N), 326

Christian churches refuse to participate in independence celebration (N), 186

Christian Council condemns racial separation (N), 780

expels missionary B. Neill Richards (N), 835

regime prohibits missionaries (N), 1250

Richards, B. Neill

expelled from Southern Rhodesia (N), 835

Richardson, Alan: Religion in Contemporary Debate (David Allan Hubbard) (B), 716

Richardson, John R.: Christian Economics: Studies in the Christian Message to the Market Place (Irving Howard) (B), 458 420

Rieff, Philip: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud (Orville S. Walters) (B), 170

Right to Bear Arms, The, by Carl Bakal (David O. Moberg) (B), 110

Ring of Truth, by J. B. Phillips (Paul Rader) (B), 768

Ringer, Benjamin B., et al.: To Comfort and to Challenge: A Dilemma of the Contemporary Church (Edwin M. Yamauchi) (B), 1206

Riseling, Richard L.

director of international affairs, ABC Division of Christian Social Concern (N), 933

Rising Tide of Violence, The (E), 1092

Rival Churchmen in Viet Nam (N), 1012

Roberts, C. A.

to head evangelism dept, at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (N), 780

Roberts, D. Evor

asked to resign from Swarthmore Presbyterian Church because of civil rights issue (N), 284; 366

church sends him on sabbatical (N), 1165

Roberts, Oral

advocates a ‘heavenly vision’ (N), 627

installed as president of Oral Roberts University (N), 778

Roberts, Thomas

accused of heresy (N), 675

Roberts, W. Dayton: The ‘Why’ Generation (N), 227

Robinson, Brooks

quoted on sin (N), 237

Robinson, William Childs: Affirmations of the Atonement in Current Theology, Part One (A), 545

Affirmations of the Atonement in Current Theology, part two (A), 594

Rochester, N. Y.

Kodak disturbance (A), 1028

Rockwell, George Lincoln, death of (E), 1198

Rocky Courtship in Canada, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 230

Roger, Over, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 764

Roman Catholicism

abortion and (N), 1252

and open-housing in Milwaukee (N), 1250

anti-Semitism in (B), 1046

archbishop accused of heresy (N), 675

autonomy of Catholic colleges urged (N), 1116

Baum, William W., to head Kansas City diocese (N), 885

bishop robbed and strangled in Mexico (N), 733

burial rights refused to daughter of former priest (N),

Canadian bishops not to oppose new laws on divorce (N), 777

Cardinal Spellman’s resignation rejected (N), 125

Catholic editor asks support from conservative Protestants (N), 677

Catholic University

dispute at (N), 826

censorship in (A), 979

changes in administration (N), 1215

changes in mixed-marriage rules termed ‘superficial’ by Irish Anglican bishops (N), 372

changes in the church (N), 281

Charles Davis leaves church (E), 401; (N), 415

Church and state in (B), 272

convert rate drops (N), 930

defection from … ‘a very big sin,’ (E), 510

discuss the nature of faith with Methodist delegation (N), 371

dispute over Wilmington, Delaware, diocesan newspaper (N), 1063

during the past decade (N), 58

Emile Cardinal Leger quoted on priestly celibacy (N), 476

fate of reformers (A), 979

Fatima’s fiftieth anniversary (N), 672

finds areas of agreement with American Baptists (N), 780

four American bishops to attend Synod of Bishops in Rome (N), 932

Franz Cardinal Koenig denies Masonic ties (N), 780

freedom is beginning (A), 980

glossolalia at Notre Dame (N), 880

Gommar DePauw protests subordination to Cardinal Shehan (N), 371

Graymoor Friars co-publishers with NCC of prayer leaflet for Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (N), 419

Hans Küng comments on celibacy rule (N), 1117

in majority in Vietnamese constitutional assembly (N), 60

intellectual ferment in (A), 979

intercommunion with Protestants? (A), 1232

Jansenists (A), 980, 982

Jesuit priest Anthony A. Stephenson defects (N), 467

join Protestants in running Harlem counseling center (N), 124

join United Presbyterians in producing ecumenical recording (N), 475

launch voluntary campaign for non-discrimination in Chicago (N), 419

lay control of RC colleges (N), 467

liberals disappointed in synod agenda (N), 777

loosens grip on Spanish society (N), 327

National Catholic Reporter, birth control ‘scoop’ (N), 829

National Council of Catholic Men suggests tax on church business income (N), 932

new catechism published in the Netherlands (N), 184

New Catholic Encyclopedia reviewed (B), 916

Notre Dame study reveals that 53% of American Catholic wives use contraceptives (N), 327

nuns—legal battle because of religious habits (N), 116

O’Meara replaces Fulton J. Sheen as director of Society for the Propagation of the Faith (N), 473

Paisley: ‘no change’ (N), 825

papal primacy advocated by Episcopal bishop (N), 972

Pike on tax-free income (N), 829

plan hospital in North Viet Nam (N), 975

Polish government threatens to close six seminaries (N), 372

Pope reaffirms policy of celibacy (N), 1052

Pope Paul visits ecumenical Patriarch (N), 1114

Pope Paul VI

calls first meeting of Synod of Bishops for September 29,1967 (N), 418

cites discouraging obstacles to Catholic education (N), 474

confers with Soviet president (N), 528

silent on birth control (E), 219

underscores ban on jazz and experiments in the mass (N), 419

visits ecumenical Patriarch (N), 1114

priest looks at out-dated church (B), 1047

private school funds face battle (N), 884

rebel sect in Canada charged with neglect of communally raised children (N), 533

religious intolerance in Spain (E), 1198

religious liberty in Spain (N), 671

Sapinière, La (A), 980

secret international society (A), 980

seek unity with Old Catholics in the Netherlands (N), 371

seminary in Oklahoma City rented as retreat center (N), 1165

Sodalitium Pianum (A), 979

soon to be largest group in Australia (N), 125

Soviet president plans visit to Pope Paul (N), 418

Spanish abbot asked to resign for opposing government oppression (N), 420

students expelled from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary for experimenting with mass (N), 285

subsidized by U.S. government (B), 272

Sudan allows missionaries (N), 1250

surprising facts enumerated (N), 580

and talks on mixed marriages (N), 465

teacher-priest marries (N), 1164

three new American cardinals named (N), 975

the nuns’ new habit (N), 930

Vatican studying new Dutch catechism (N), 327

Whitney Young appeals for encyclical against racism (N), 1218

Yzermans, Vincent A., new editor of Our Sunday Visitor (N), 1015

Roman Catholics in a Changing Mood (N), 281

Roman Catholics: Would You Believe … (N), 580

Romney, George

and the religious issue (N), 626

Rooks, C. Shelby

executive director. Fund for Theological Education (N), 975

Rose, Bill: Dedicating a $16 Million Campus (N), 778

Rose, Stephen C.: The Grass Roots Church: A Manifesto for Protestant Renewal (William Edmund Bouslough) (B), 457

Rosenberg, Leon, death of (N), 975

Ross, J. Hervey

first medical secretary of Presbyterian U.S. Board of World Missions (N), 236

Rudnick, Milton L.: Fundamentalism and the Missouri Synod (Robert Preus) (B), 918

Rudolph, L. C.: Francis Asbury (Frederick A. Norwood) (B), 406

Ruler, Arnold A., van: The Christian Church and the Old Testament (Ronald Youngblood) (B), 272

Rumania

religious situation in (N), 178

Runia, Klaas

The Third Day He Rose Again … (A), 587

When Is Separation a Christian Duty? (part one) (A), 939; part two (A), 982

Rush Hour of the Gods, The: A Study of New Religious Movements in Japan, by H. Neill McFarland (Gordon K. Chapman) (B), 818

Russell, David S.

new general secretary of Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland (N), 1118

Russell, Letty M.: Christian Education in Mission (Edward L. Hayes) (B), 1002

Russell, Samuel D., death of (N), 476

Baptist women jailed for holding religion classes (N), 327

oral criticism of government religion policies now punishable by prison (N), 327

Russia—See Soviet Union

S

Sacraments

discussion of (A), 1232

Schillebeeckx on the (A), 1232

St. Matthew 25:42, by Henry Hutto (P), 436

Salama, Hannu

Midsummer Dances confiscated for ‘deliberate blasphemy’ (N), 126

Salaries for Clergymen (E), 454

Salvation Army

Wiseman, Clarence D., national commander for Canada and Bermuda (N), 1015

Sampson, Francis L.

new chief of Army chaplains (N), 1164

Salvation

Christian life cannot be separated from (B), 1149

Nelson, Emil, national evangelism consultant (N), 1063

San Antonio, Texas

pastor crippled by gunshot from youth gang battle (N), 326

San Francisco

death rate from cirrhosis of liver (N), 125

race riots (N), 116

shooting ruled ‘excusable homicide’ (N), 187

Sanctification

process of growth (L), 455

Sanctification—See booklet at page 1144

Sarna, Nahum M.: Understanding Genesis (Edward J. Young) (B), 314

Sasse, Hermann: Sin and Forgiveness in the Modern World (A), 539

Savage, Thomas J., death of (N), 237

Savio, Mario

Catholic turns Marxist (N), 579

Saviour and the Scriptures, The, by Robert P. Lightner (R. Laird Harris) (B), 713

ayre, Francis B., Jr.

hospitalized in Thailand with tuberculosis (N), 187

Scaer, David P., and Ward, Wayne E.: The Conflict Over Baptism (A), 688

Scales, James Ralph

new president of Wake Forest College (N), 885

Scharpff, Paulus: History of Evangelism (Mark W. Lee) (B), 668

Schaull, Richard, and Oglesby, Carl: Containment and Change (Edmund A. Opitz) (B), 917

Schillebeeckx, Edward

on the sacraments (A), 1232

Schism

definition of term (A), 940

Schmidt, John: Preaching: Hard Work, Plus (MW), 962

Schmidt, William J.: An Unreasonable Fat Simile (P), 497

Semantic (P), 486

to teach at NYTS (N), 975

Schneider, Johannes: The Authority for Evangelism (A), 68

Schneider, Johannes: The Distortion of New Testament Concepts in Modern Theology (A), 1236

Schomer, Howard

to become executive director of NCC Specialized Ministries Department (N), 284

Schonfield, Hugh J.

controversial plot theory of (N), 622

The Passover Plot: New Light on the History of Jesus (Henry W. Coray) (B), 269

Schonherr, Albrecht

heads ecclesiastical affairs in East Berlin for Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg (N), 474

Schwaighofer, Hans

resigns as director of Oberammergau Passion Play (N), 187

Schwartz, Edward

new president of National Student Association (N), 1218

Science

advance in three areas (forum), 380

dominance during the past decade (N), 58

religion and (B), 108

Scientific Exploitation of Nature (E), 404

Scientific Research Society

awards William Proctor Prize to Elmer W. Engstrom (N), 474

Scofield Reference Bible

comparison between old and new (E), 711

Scots on Sex, by J. D. Douglas (N), 971

Scotland

Neville Davidson to retire next spring as minister of Glasgow Cathedral (N), 284

Scott, Nathan A.: Ernest Hemingway (Paul M. Bechtel) (B), 614

Scripture Union

commemorates its centennial (N), 1061

Scriptures

faith irt the integrity of (A), 199

God’s infallible word (A), 201

joy of memorizing (A), 204

Scroggs, Robin: The Last Adam: A Study in Pauline Anthropology (James P. Martin) (B), 1048

Second Great Awakening

referred to (A), 1229

Secular Christianity, by Ronald Gregor Smith (John A. Mackay) (B), 713

Secular City Debate, The, ed. by Daniel Callahan (Don DeYoung) (B), 405

Secular Man?, by James W. Didier (A), 1075

Secularism

Canada and (CRT), 1016

Secularization

paganism a result of (forum), 383

Secularization of Modern Culture, The, by Bernard Eugene Meland (John C. Howell) (B), 315

Security Council Censures Israel (E), 267

Seever, Harold W., death of (N), 126

Selassie, Emperor Haile

addresses U.S. Senate and House prayer-breakfast groups (N), 629

Semantic, by William J. Schmidt (P), 486

Seminaries Down Under, by Craig Skinner (N), 624

Senate Turns Back Prayer Amendment (N), 47

Separation

Anglican evangelicals and (N), 834

Christian duty? (A), 983

definition of term (A), 940

letters in favor of (L), 1087

medical and surgical methods of (A), 983

right time for (A), 984

when should there be? (A), 939

Setting Men Free, by Bruce Larson (Vance H. Webster) (B), 1259

Seventh-day Adventists

first member in Congress (N), 277

less lung cancer in (N), 180

may merge two California schools (N), 776

Severinghaus, Elmer L.

elected president of United Church of Christ’s Board for World Ministries (N), 326

Sex

Anglican evangelicals and (N), 835

controversy in Great Britain (E), 162

relations cause for emotional breakdown (N), 829

Sex and the Single-minded Church (E), 162

Shadows of Armageddon (E), 1043

Shall We Overcome?, by Howard O. Jones (Frank E. Gaebelein) (B), 43

Shea, George Beverly

teams with Lane Adams for crusade in Ontario (N), 285

Shehan, Lawrence Cardinal

to attend Synod of Bishops in Rome (N), 932

Shelley, Bruce: Evangelicalism in America (Ronald H. Nash) (B), 1002

Shepherd, Jonas

marries aerialists at Ontario fair (N), 125

Sheridan, Dorothy

to be tried for the death of her daughter (N), 836

Sherlock, Hugh

first president of independent Methodist Conference in the Carribbean and Central America (N), 1063

Shideler, Emerson: Believing and Knowing (Charles C. Ryrie) (B), 520

Shipley, L. Earle

joins fund-raising firm in New York (N), 1015

Shippey, Frederick

appointed acting dean of Drew University’s theological school (N), 780

Shoemaker, Helen Smith: I Stand by the Door: The Life of Sam Shoemaker (Peter C. Moore) (B), 1203

Shoemaker, Sam

review of biography (B), 1203

Short History of Christian Doctrine, A, by Bernhard Lohse (J. A. O. Preus) (B), 717

Should Charity Begin at Rome? (E), 711

Shriners

Reeves, Timothy, appointed imperial chaplain (N), 1164

Shriver, Sargent

accompanies Billy Graham on tour of North Carolina poverty programs (N), 933

Head Start program and (N), 670

Shuman, Harry Milton, death of (N), 677

Sidelights on the World Congress on Evangelism (N), 283

Sighting the Final Third of the Twentieth Century (forum), 379

Silence or a Shrunken Evangel? (E), 814

Simpson, E. P. Y.

leaves Berkeley Baptist Divinity School to teach in native New Zealand (N), 373

Ordination and Christian Unity (James Daane) (B), 1004

Sin

and forgiveness (A), 539

Robinson, Brooks, quoted on (N), 237

Sin and Forgiveness in the Modern World, by Hermann Sasse (A), 539

Singapore

bans distribution of California nudity magazines (N), 285

Methodists request autonomy (N), 474

Singewald, Martin L.: New Religious Approaches to the Campus (A), 483

Singing Nun, The

returns to lay life as Jeanine Deckers (N), 187

Sinning by Defection (E), 510

Situation ethics

Anglican evangelicals and (N), 835

Situational ethics.—See also New morality

Sizing Up the Students, by Addison H. Leitch (CRT), 1064

Skinner, Craig: Fed Up with Liberals (N), 1013

Seminaries Down Under (N), 624

Skinner, Robert M., death of (N), 733

Skinner, Tom

crusade in Washington (N), 53

Slater, Robert L.: Listen, Clergymen! (A), 293

Smart, James D.: The Divided Mind of Modern Theology (Carl F. H. Henry) (B), 768

Smith, Earnest A.

to head Methodist religion and race department (N), 188

Smith, Eugene L.: Defense of WCC on Church and Society (A), 853

Smith, McGregor, Jr.: Easter Dirge (P), 589

Smith, Ronald Gregor: Secular Christianity (John A. Mackay) (B), 713

Snyder, John W.: Why Not a Christian College on a University Campus? (A), 494

Social action

Anglican evangelicals and (N), 834

Des Moines Council of Churches plans urban-renewal project (N), 476

through evangelism (N), 970

Social concern

and the Church (panel), 683

Social issues (N), 834

Social Pressures and Church Policy, by Paul R. Hoover (A), 1028

Social Security

mandatory for ministers? (N), 729

Socialism

WCC and (A), 855

Society for Religion in Higher Education

to publish new quarterly. Colloquy (N), 1165

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

study of religious behavior and institutions (N), 474

Soderquist, Ronald

to teach at NYTS (N), 975

‘somehow, Let’s Get Together’ (E), 912

Soucek, Josef

dean of Comenius Theological Faculty, Prague (N), 187

Sound of Muzak, The, by Eutychus II (L), 20

Soup with a Fork?, by Jan J. van Capelleveen (N), 364

Sour Grapes in California, by Russell Chandler (N), 1108

South Africa

apartheid costly (court cases) (N), 1012

Burnett new secretary of Christian Council of (N), 284

denies plans to restrict Roman Catholic immigration (N), 837

deports Clarence E. Crowther (N), 1063

Dmitri Tsafendas ruled insane in murder of Verwoerd (N), 187

Dutch Reformed Church of the Cape Province rejoins World Presbyterian Alliance (N), 186

government to tighten visa and residence regulations (N), 419

NCC opposes loan to (E), 453

Netherlands Reformed Church

Christian Institute members ousted (N), 971

Southern Baptist revival crusade planned for September, 1967 (N), 327

Southern Baptists plan crusade in (N), 780

thirty Southern Baptist pastors to participate in crusade (N), 1218

U.S. Baptists cancel preaching tour (E), 814

Soviet Churches Survive in Historic Heartland (N), 115

Soviet Union

Baptists observe 100th anniversary (N), 1110

Baptists urge peace (N), 729

children’s book of Bible stories published (N), 780

Jewish persecutions (N), 1110

Pentecostals in (name) (L), 304

President Podgorny to visit Pope Paul (N), 418

religious situation in (N), 115

statistics on religious belief in Kazan (N), 1218

Sovik, Arne B.

chosen executive secretary of the Board of World Mission of the Lutheran Church in America (N), 582

Space program

Cape Kennedy tragedy (E), 509; (N), 525

Spain

abbot asked to resign for opposing government oppression (N), 420

Baptist churches open in Vail de Uxo and Madrid (N), 285

Evangelical Defense Committee criticizes religious-freedom law (N), 1118

Protestants not happy about new religious liberty law (N), 928

Protestants refuse to register churches (N), 1161

religious intolerance (E), 1198

religious liberty in (N), 671

widens rights of non-Catholics (N), 327

Spain and Religious Liberty (E), 308

Spain, Rufus B.: At Ease in Zion: Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865–1900 (Samuel Southard) (B), 1049

Spare a Hallowed Landmark?, by B. J. Caton (N), 414

Spaugh, R. Gordon

president of International Moravian Synod (N), 1118

Speck, Richard

ruled mentally fit to stand trial (N), 187

Spellman, Francis Cardinal

resignation not accepted by Pope (N), 125

Viet Nam mission (N), 413

Spike, Robert W.

death of (N), 57,185, 188

Minor charged with murder of (N), 326

Spirit of Pentecost, The (E), 708

‘spiritual Bigamist’, A, by J. Berkley Reynolds (N), 467

Spotlight on Alcoholism (E), 162

Spurgeon

quoted on ‘truth or treason’ (Q), 1084

Spurgeon, C. H.: Truth or Treason? (Q), 1084

Spurrier, Steve

demands high salary (N), 417

Stackhouse, Reginald

Assault on Belief (CRT), 734

Character in the Classroom (CRT), 421

Will Canada Be Secularized? (CRT), 1016

Stagg, Paul L.: The Converted Church: From Escape to Engagement (Harold Lindsell) (B), 920

Stair, Fred R., Jr.

new president of Union Theological Seminary (Virginia) (N), 933

Stamps

Dürer’s ‘praying hands’ appear on Canadian Christmas stamp (N), 60

Post Office plans to repeat 1966 Christmas design (N), 974

Starkey, Lycurgus M., Jr.: James Bond’s World of Values (Clyde S. Kilby) (B), 564

Statures, by Elva McAllaster (P), 990

Steacy, Newton C.: What I’ve Learned in Counseling an Unwed Mother (A), 894

Steadfast or Wavering, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 94

Steadfastness

Christian grace (LF), 94

Stephenson, Anthony A.

Jesuit priest defects from Roman Catholicism (N), 467

Still a Great Land (E), 657

Still Adolescent?, by Harold B. Kuhn (CRT), 630

Stine, Donald M.

to teach at Maryville College, Tennessee (N), 975

Stony Brook Girls’ School

staff resigns over board policy (N), 975

Straight Talk About Teaching in Today’s Church, by Locke W. Bowman, Jr. (Edward L. Hayes) (B), 1002

Strempke, Vernon L.

joins faculty of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (N), 677

Stringfellow, William: Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis (Charles E. Hummel) (B), 221

Strommen, Merton

refutes Glock-Stark prejudice theory (N), 1117

Strong, Philip N. W.

elected primate of Church of England in Australia (N), 60

requests admission of Anglicans to Australian merger talks (N), 372

Student Christian Movement

in Britain

seeks talks with ‘conservative evangelicals’ (N), 236

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

turns anti-Semitic in literature and pronouncements (N), 1165

Studies in Christian Existentialism, by John Macquarrie (Jerry H. Gill) (B), 461

Stumpf, K. L.

leads drive against drug addiction in Hong Kong (N), 284

Subtle Pressures Mounting on Cuban Churches, by J. D. Douglas (N), 362

Sudan

allows R C missionaries (N), 1250

last days for missionaries (B), 822

Sudan Interior Mission

‘very much alive’ (L), 512

Summer of Racial Discontent (E), 1043

Sunday School

a lost cause? (panel) (A), 1071

Sunday schools

major congress planned (N), 186

Sunday Times

bought by Union Gospel Press (N), 974

final issue of (N), 924

Supernaturalized Citizens, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 706

Superstition

criticism of (B), 1099

Supreme Court

kills three obscenity convictions (N), 885

refuses to hear case on church taxes (N), 123

Surging Wave of the Future, The (E), 96

Survey of Christian Ethics, A, by Edward LeRoy Long, Jr. (Jesse DeBoer) (B), 1048

Surveys

studies of religious attitudes, family life, death rates (N), 125

Sutherland, Wilber: New Evangelistic Frontiers (A), 651

Suzuki, Masahisa

elected moderator of United Church of Christ in Japan (N), 237

Svetlana

moves to U.S.A. (E), 814

search for faith (N), 824

Svetlana’s Search for Faith (N), 824

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

Swarthmore Presbyterian Church sends minister on sabbatical (N), 1165

Sweden

Aim elected president of Swedish Missions Council (N), 533

Baptist weekly raps Judson College (N), 975

New church in Vall de Uxo is 54th member (N), 285

Hultgren to retire as primate of national Lutheran Church (N), 237

Ruben Josefson chosen Lutheran Archbishop (N), 933

Switzerland

meeting of French-speaking evangelicals (N), 932

Sykes, Norman

on the Reformation (A), 1228

Synagogue Council

spokesmen testify on behalf of federal fair-housing law (N), 1218

T

Taiwan

Presbyterian Church stays in W.C.C. (N), 1117

Taft, Adon

Football: Faith and $400, 000 (N), 417

The Gospel in a Social Context (N), 969

Under New Management (N), 578

Taggart, Patrick

evangelical turns Marxist (N), 579

Tamil Church, India

Diel named bishop (N), 533

Tanzania

large increase in Lutheran baptisms (N), 1255

Mushendwa, Elisa, secretary for political education (N), 1164

Tao-ming, Wei

denies that Pope Paul urged a U. N. seat for Red China (N), 327

Taxation

churches facing? (N), 1249

Taylor, Clyde W., et al.: The Gospel and World Religion (panel), 248

Taylor, Herbert J.: Listen, Clergymen! (A), 293

Taylor, Winston H.

new president of Religious Public Relations Council (N), 836

Teacher Strikes, The (E), 1257

Teen Challenge

centers now operating in twelve cities (N), 1165

Television

‘fairness doctrine’ tested (N), 1250

new proposals for programming (E), 32

religion on (E), 32

religious programming (E), 1246

Temple, Shirley

crusader against pornography (E), 98

Templeton, Charles

withdraws from Canadian political race (N), 284

Tennessee

evolution law stays (N), 825

repeals ban on the teaching of evolution (N), 932

Tenney, Merrill C.: The Glorious Destiny of the Believer (booklet), at 309

Tensions in Jewry, by Dwight L. Baker (N), 883

Tensions in the Seminaries, by Harold Lindsell (A), 789

Tenth Anniversary Comments from Religion Editors (L), 25

Terry, Roy M.

Protestant chaplain at Air Force Academy (N), 1164

Tertullian

quoted on the martyrs (A), 195

TeSelle, Sallie McFague. Literature and the Christian Life (Calvin D. Linton) (B), 457

to edit Colloquy (N), 1165

Texas

dispute over teaching nuns resolved (N), 733

Texas Tilt: Nuns in School, by Marquita Box (N), 116

Thailand

World Fellowship of Buddhists meet to discuss world peace (N), 327

Thanksgiving

how not to give thanks (E), 218

That the World May Know (E), 160

Thebeau, Duane H.: Are We Burying the Gospel at the Grave? (A), 591

Then and Now, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 868

Theologian’s Verdict on His Church, A (E), 401

Theological Climate in Canada, The, by T. W. Harpur (A), 646

Theological Education in Trouble (E), 610

Theological Ethics, Volume I: Foundations, by Helmut Thielicke (Ellis W. Hollon) (B), 516

Theological Grinches Who Steal Christmas, The (E), 306

Theological seminaries

answers to ‘Tensions’ (L), 955

Asbury Theological Seminary

Traina, Robert A., new dean (N), 1015

Baptist Theological Seminary, Rüschlikon, Switzerland

Yandall C. Woodfin III joins faculty (N), 284

Berkeley Baptist Divinity School

ferment at (N), 323

Hoiland serves as interim president (N), 582

President Arnoot resigns (N), 467

California merger? (N), 1052

Central Baptist Seminary

Hannen, Robert, joins staff (N), 1015

Central Baptist Theological Seminary

Fred E. Young, new dean (N), 885

Christian Theological Seminary (Indianapolis)

Martin Niemöller to teach there in 1969 (N), 1014

Church Divinity School of the Pacific

John Pairman Brown dismissed (N), 779

Colgate-Rochester Divinity School

linked with University of Rochester (N), 1116

Comenius Theological Faculty (Prague)

Josef Soucek, dean (N), 187

Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary

Ralph L. Keiper to teach pastoral theology and evangelism (N), 582

Costello, John M., to teach practical theology (N), 836

Crane Theological School

to close in 1968 (N), 1063

Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary

President Thomas B. McDormand to retire (N), 188

Evangelical Covenant Church

North Park Seminary to be more representative (N), 1113

few graduate level courses in Japanese seminaries (N), 372

Graduate Theological Union

Wagoner, Walter D., new associate dean (N), 975

Hartford Seminary Foundation

LeRoy Moore, Jr., joins faculty (N), 1014

Hungarian Baptist Seminary has fourteen students (N), 187

International Baptist Seminary, Buenos Aires

A. J. Glaze new president (N), 732

large number of students in psychotherapy (N), 836

Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg

Hoffman, Bengt Runo, professor of ethics and ecumenics (N), 1255

New York Theological Seminary

new staff appointments (N), 975

Northern Baptist Theological Seminary

D. George Vanderlip youngest dean ever appointed (N), 284

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Vernon L. Strempke joins faculty (N), 677

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

hires Ford Lewis Battles, and Robert S. Paul (N), 1255

to offer cooperative graduate religion program with University of Pittsburgh (N), 236

seminary enrollment (A), 792

St. Charles Borromeo

students expelled for experimenting with mass (N), 285

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Arnold B. Come new president (N), 533

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

to award master of divinity as basic degree (N), 533

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

C. A. Roberts to head evangelism department (N), 780

students ask broadening of conscientious objector eligibility (N), 837

students suffer from a non-faith syndrome (E), 812

tensions in (A), 789

tomorrow’s (B), 820

Union Theological Seminary (N.Y.)

C. Eric Lincoln appointed professor (N), 732

Hans Küng to teach there in 1968 (N), 1014

Reginald H. Fuller assumes New Testament professorship (N), 420

Union Theological Seminary (Virginia)

Stair, Fred R., Jr., new president (N), 933

United Theological College in West Indies dedicated (N), 881

University of Chicago Divinity School

Williams, Colin W., to direct Doctor of Ministry program (N), 885

Wesley Theological Seminary

Knight, John L., succeeds Norman L. Trott as president (N), 836

Woodstock College

to affiliate with Yale University (N), 1116

Theological Tendency of Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis in Acts, The, by Eldon Jay Epp (Clark H. Pinnock) (B), 714

Theology

affirmations of the atonement in (A), 545

atonement in current (A), 594

authority of Scripture key issue today (B), 768

Barth-Bultmann split (B), 768

books of 1966 (A), 427

Bultmannism—in confusion (B), 356

Christian ethics in (E), 560

Christian life (B), 1100

death-of-God controversy (CRT), 286

distortion of New Testament concepts in modern (A), 1236

education in (E), 610

ethics—analytical philosophy (B), 360

evangelical and RC scholars getting closer (forum), 382

fact and faith in modern (A), 847

freedom in modern (B), 1148

historical and contemporary viewpoints compared (B), 770

historicity of Jesus (B), 356

in a new man-centered era (B), 872

interpretation of Scripture (CRT), 1264

misuse of Bonhoeffer’s (N), 415

new contemporary (B), 220

‘new,’ welcomed by communists (E), 354

of evangelism needed (A), 1020

of pleasure (E), 866

Old Testament

books of 1966 (A), 429

orthodoxy and (N), 748

possible directions for the God-is-dead movement (forum), 381

reading for literacy in (A), 1200

Revelation of God, discussion of (CRT), 374

spirit of confusion among secular theologians? (A), 298

substitutes for Christian faith (B), 771

Thielicke on Christian ethics (B), 516

Uppsala study booklet quoted (E), 814

Vidler’s lectures at Strasbourg (CRT), 886

waning tumult of Death-of-God (A), 856

Theology for Christian Education, A, by Nels F. S. Ferré (Edward L. Hayes) (B), 1002

Theology of Martin Luther, The, by Paul Althaus (Ralph R. Bohlmann) (B), 874

Theology of the English Reformers, by Philip Edgcumbe Hughes (Clair Davis) (B), 966

Theology, practical

American culture and (B), 1151

Thermodynamics

Darwinism and (A), 843

These Modern Neroes, by J. D. Douglas (N), 675

They Are Taking My Church Away From Me, by Harold H. Lytle (A), 1082

Thielemann, Bruce

new president of PUBC (N), 836

Thielicke, Helmut: Theological Ethics, Volume 1: Foundations (Ellis W. Hollon) (B), 516

Third Day He Rose Again …, The, by Klaas Runia (A), 587

Thirty Years After: Haile Selassie in Berlin (N), 118

This Day

wins EPA’s ‘Periodical of the Year’ award (N), 932

Thomas, M. A.

‘conversion not work of missions’ (E), 1198

Thomas, M. M.

in America from India (N), 116

Thomas, Robert J.

martyr corporteur in Korea (A), 156

Thompson, Henry O.: Prophetic Preaching Today (MW), 1140

to teach at NYTS (N), 975

Thomson, John F.

evangelical pioneer preacher in Argentina (N), 1011

Thornton, J. C.

resigns from Anglican ministry because of doubt of God (N), 836

Threat of Pleasure, The (E), 866

Three Hours with the Bible, by Robert L. Cleath (N), 55

Three Philosophies of Education, by Henry J. Boettcher (John W. Snyder) (B), 1103

Three Popes and the Jews, by Pinchas E. Lapide (Jakob Jocz) (B), 1046

Three Years Later (E), 161

‘Tight Money’ Crimps Church Construction (N), 368

Tillich, Paul

Perspectives on 19th and 20th Century Protestant Theology (Gordon H. Clark) (B), 964

theology of discussed in review (B), 964

Tiller, Carl

recommends study of intercommunion for all denominations (N), 677

Tiplady, Thomas, death of (N), 476

Tippett, Donald H.

president of Methodist Council of Bishops (N), 780

To a Skeptic, by Caroline E. McElveen (P), 590

To Comfort and to Challenge: A Dilemma of the Contemporary Church, by Charles Y. dock, Benjamin B. Ringer, and Earl R. Babbie (Edwin M. Yamauchi) (B), 1206

Today’s English Version of the New Testament, ed. by Robert G. Bratcher (J. Harold Greenlee) (B), 317

Tolerance and Truth, by William S. Banowsky (A), 1132

Tomlinson, Homer A.

crowned ‘King of All the Nations of Men’ (N), 126

Tookman, Lillian

public-relations director for Armenian Church of North America (N), 1219

Top Clergy Clash on Viet Nam, by James L. Adams (N), 829

Toplessness’ in New York City (N), 467

Totalitarianism

obstacle to evangelism (A), 83

Tournier, Paul: The Person Reborn (Frank Bateman Stanger) (B), 615

Toward a Christian Understanding of the Homosexual, by H. Kimball Jones (Frank C. Peters) (B), 617

Tower of Babel, The

Russian book of Bible stories (N), 780

Toynbee, Arnold J.

and the atomic crisis (B), 356

Change and Habit: The Challenge of Our Time (Clifford M. Drury) (B), 356

Toyotome, Masumi: Let’s Escape Our Fortress Mentality (A), 1183

Tragedies for Bishop Pike, by Edward E. Plowman (N), 1112

Traina, Robert A.

new dean, Asbury Theological Seminary (N), 1015

Treasures of Darkness: After Catastrophe, by Elva McAllaster (P), 1032

Tribute to Samuel M. Zwemer (E), 659

Tribute to a Stalwart (E), 454

Triumph of the Therapeutic, The: Uses of Faith after Freud, by Philip Rieff (Orville S. Walters) (B), 170

Trott, Norman L.

retires as president of Wesley Theological Seminary (N), 836

Trouble with Humanism, The, by Gordon H. Clark (A), 794

Trueblood, D. Elton

excerpts from ‘A Redemptive Fellowship’ (Q), 336

Ideas that Shape the American Mind (interview), 331

The Incendiary Fellowship (llion T. Jones) (B), 518

interview with, on present ideas (A), 331

on the movement to the secular (forum), 383

A Redemptive Fellowship (Q), 336

Trueblood, D. Elton, et al.: Churchmen Look at Communism (A), 948

Truth

tolerance and (A), 1132

Truth or Treason?, by C. H. Spurgeon (Q), 1084

Tsafendas, Dimitri

ruled insane in murder of Verwoerd (N), 187

Tuller, Edwin

on preaching mission to troops in Viet Nam (N), 583

Turkey

American preachers jailed (N), 366

Orthodox patriarch may have to leave (N), 120

persecution of Christians (L), 512

Pope Paul visits Istanbul (N), 1114

religious emphasis in (N), 279

Turkey: Resurgence of Militant Muslims (N), 279

Turnbull, John W.

named associate director of Washington office of NCC (N), 732

Turnbull, Ralph G. (ed.): If I Had Only One Sermon to Preach (Haddon W. Robinson) (B), 405

Turner, Stuart G.

charged with taking bribes from Maryland prison inmates (N), 326

Turner, Wallace: The Mormon Establishment (Harold Lindsell) (B), 359

Twentieth-Century Evangelism, by Harold B. Kuhn (CRT), 61

Twenty Promising New Volumes (list), 439

Two Kingdoms, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 350

Tydings, Eleanor Davies

marries Lowell Ditzen (N), 373

U

Under New Management, by Adon Taft (N), 578

Understanding Genesis, by Nahum M. Sarna (Edward J. Young) (B), 314

Uneasy Pause in the Big Merger (N), 878

Unfolding Destiny, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 1044

Unfurl the Missionary Flag (E), 1145

Unger, Merrill F.: Unger’s Bible Handbook (Merrill C. Tenney) (B), 407

Unger’s Bible Handbook, by Merrill F. Unger (Merrill C. Tenney) (B), 407

Unitarian Universalist Association

plans ties with other religious liberals (N), 882

survey of beliefs (N), 780

United Church of Canada

advocates divorce (E), 560

to publish ecumenical magazine in 1967 (N), 124

union with Anglicans discussed (N), 1211

United Church of Christ

‘black power’ watchdog formed (N), 180

opens office for international development (N), 370

race issue dominates synod meeting (N), 1054

‘restructure’ needed (N), 122

Severinghaus elected president of Board for World Ministries (N), 326

sponsors radio monitoring campaign (N), 1063

Viet Nam statement (N), 1054

United Church Women

changes name to Church Women United and adds a Catholic (N), 1118

United Nations

condemns religious and racial intolerance in members (N), 186

outgrowth of Reformation (A), 1124

Security Council censures Israel (E), 267

United States of America

churchmen watch bills in Congress (N), 185

facing a year of critical decisions (E), 400

religious affiliation of the 90th Congress (N), 276

U.S. Agency for International Development

donates mission hospital wing in India (N), 1165

U. S. Aid for Segregation?, by Ken Gaydos (N), 626

U.S. Catholic Conference

spokesmen testify on behalf of federal fair-housing law (N), 1218

Universalists

survey of beliefs (N), 780

Universe

process of ‘Christification’ (B), 270

University Christian Movement

ideas about revolution (B), 917

motive magazine to be official organ (N), 60

Unreasonable Fat Simile, An, by William J. Schmidt (P), 497

Unrest in Milwaukee (E), 1257

Unstable Compromise, An, by Addison H. Leitch (CRT), 781

Upper Room Citation

awarded to Bishop Reuben H. Mueller (N), 373

Upper Room, The

Weldon, Wilson A., new editor (N), 836

Uppsala

radical shift for Protestantism? (E), 864

Urban Coalition

meeting in Washington (N), 1217

Urban Church Breakthrough, by Richard E. Moore and Duane L. Day (William Edmund Bouslough) (B), 457

Urban Mutiny: Churchmen Weigh Causes and Effects (N), 1107

Urgency and Relevancy of Evangelism, The, by Ishaya Audu (A), 137

Using the State for Sectarian Ends, by Clair Davis (A), 944

Utopia: The Perennial Heresy, by Thomas Molnar (John Wesley Raley) (B), 1262

V

Vahanian, Gabriel: No Other God (David Allan Hubbard) (B), 615

Valiant for the Truth: A Treasury of Evangelical Writings, ed. by David Otis Fuller (John H. Gerstner) (B), 965

Van Buren, Paul

discussion of his writings (A), 298

wins fellowships at Oxford University (N), 1118

Van Dusen, Henry P.: Dag Hammarskjöld: The Statesman and His Faith (Sherwood E. Wirt) (B), 664

Vanderlip, D. George

youngest dean ever appointed at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary (N), 284

Vangioni, Fernando: Recovering the Apostolic Dynamic (A), 149

Vanier, Georges Philias, death of (N), 677

Vastine, William H.

rural coordinator for OEO in Pennsylvania (N), 1164

Vatican

ecumenical revolution at (B), 1259

Vatican Council II

atheism and (B), 1105

freedom, poverty, and war at (B), 109

Protestant perspective of (B), 716

religious liberty and (B), 1102

Vatican Council II: Volume I: The First Session, by Antoine Wenger (Bruce Shelley) (B), 1259

Verney, Nancy Reynolds

gives $1 million to Wake Forest College (N), 836

Very Personal, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 910

Vidler at Strasbourg, by John Warwick Montgomery (CRT), 886

Viet Nam

American Friends Service Committee opens children’s day care center in Quang Nai (N), 285

Betty Mitchell to return to mission station (N), 975

Blake calls U.S. policy ‘danger to human survival’ (N), 837

Catholic hospital planned for North Viet Nam (N), 975

chaplain casualties (N), 1012

Church of the Brethren laments war (N), 1055

clergy protest at White House (E), 509; (N), 528

converts baptized in military life raft (N), 474

demonstration against war by clergymen (N, 471

Docherty and Elson clash on issue (N), 829

failing our soldiers in? (E), 1094

‘godless constitution’ protested (N), 774

Graham in (N), 412

moral dilemma (E), 403

New Testament published in Koho dialect (N), 1014

peace feelers (N), 576

Pocket Testament League to distribute Scriptures (N), 124

Quaker Action Group delivers supplies to Haiphong (N), 780

religious breakdown of constitutional assembly (N), 60

relief agencies at work in (N), 720

rival churchmen visit (N), 1012

Southern Baptist editor advocates a pull out of (N), 1217

Spellman in (N), 413

United Church of Christ statement (N), 1054

World Vision to build ‘missionary embassy’ (N), 1014

Viet Nam: A Moral Decision (E), 403

Vietnam: Peace and Rumors of Peace (N), 576

Villaume, William J.

resigns as president of Waterloo (Ontario) Lutheran University (N), 1015

Vindications: Essays on the Historical Basis of Christianity, ed. by Anthony Hanson (John Frederick Jansen) (B), 561

Violence

urban unrest (N), 1107

widespread in American cities (E), 1092

Vision of Conquest, A (E), 509

Vision of Paul Tillich, The, by Carl J. Armbruster, S.J. (Gordon H. Clark) (B), 964

visits by Graham, lakavos, and Spellman (N), 367

W

Wagner, John E.: Feedback from a Churchman (A), 296

Wagoner, Walter D.

associate dean, Graduate Theological Union (N), 975

Wailes, George Handy, death of (N), 1219

Walberg, Clarence

sentenced for illegal fund-raising (N), 733

Waldensian Church

plagued by floods (E), 308

Wales

Aberfan children given communal funeral (N), 235

Walnut Street Church, Louisville

W. Wayne Dehoney new pastor (N), 473

Waning Death-of-God Tumult, The, by Thomas J. J. Altizer and John Warwick Montgomery (A), 856

Waning Surpluses Curb Church Relief (N), 418

War

Anglican evangelicals and (N), 834

definition of a just (E), 404

War and peace

hope for peace possible (forum), 380

War and Peace in Viet Nam (E), 509

War on Crime, The, (E), 709

War on Poverty

disputes over (N), 123

War Sweeps the Bible Lands (E), 956

Ward, Ronald A.

resigns British pastorate to take church in New Brunswick (N), 533

Ward, Wayne E., and Scaer, David P.: The Conflict Over Baptism (A), 688

Warren, Charles L.

first Negro to head Greater Washington Council of Churches (N), 885

Washington, D. C.

church lobbying (A), 849

Negro to head Greater Washington Council of Churches (N), 885

W.C.C.: Dull in the Sunlight, by J. D. Douglas (N), 1209

WCC—See World Council of Churches

Action for Food Production program aids India (N), 1255

annual welfare budget is $13.3 million (N), 1255

Nissiotis, N. A., first Orthodox associate general secretary (N), 1255

Wealth

as a weapon? (N), 1248

We Are Sick (E), 1258

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

NCC and Graymoor Friars publish prayer leaflet (N), 419

Weekday Bible Classes: A Way to Reach Women, by Margaret Johnston Hess (A), 206

Weisiger, Cary N., III: The Reformed Doctrine of Sanctification (booklet), at 1144

Weldon, Wilson O.

new editor of The Upper Room (N), 836

Weltner, Charles

withdraws as candidate for Congress (E), 99

Weng, Armin G., death of (N), 1254

Wenger, Antoine: Vatican Council II: Volume I: The First Session (Bruce Shelley)

Wenger, John C.: God’s Word Written: Essays on the Nature of Biblical Revelation, Inspiration, and Authority (R. Laird Harris) (B), 713

Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi, and Wigoder, Geoffrey (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion (Jakob Jocz) (B), 406

Wesselmann, Robert G.

former Catholic chancellor, marries divorcee Frances H. Burton (N), 419

West Africa

to hold Congress on Evangelism (N), 732

West Indies

Harrison crusade in (N), 674

United Theological College dedicated (N), 881

West Indies: Ecumenical Seminary, by Billy Hall (N), 881

Western Behavioral Sciences Institute

to develop experiential worship services (N), 1255

What Bishop Pike Believes (N), 234

What God Has Done, by Chandu Ray (A), 142

What Hope for Religion on TV? (E), 32

What Is ‘Pop’ Music Really Saying?, by Charles W. Keysor (A), 312

What I’ve Learned in Counseling

Bereaved Person, by Herschel H. Hobbs (A), 893

Dying Person, by Norman R. Oke (A), 892

Homosexual, by Lars I. Granberg (A), 892

Member Arrested by Police, by Raymond C. Ortlund (A), 892

Parents of a Retarded Child, by Robert J. Lamont (A), 891

Pastor Who Has Lost His Church, by George Morrel (A), 894

Person Facing Serious Surgery, by George Davis (A), 891

Prospective Bride and Groom, by Don De Young (A), 893

Terminally III Person, by Ira Gallaway (A), 894

Unhappy Marriage Partner, by Roger Mills (A), 891

Unwed Mother, by Newton C. Steacy (A), 894

What of Religion under Communism? (E), 760

What the Pope Says About Economics (N), 725

What We Can Learn from the Pentecostal Churches, by J. S. Murray (A), 898

What’s the Sense of Work?, by Carl F. H. Henry, Jean Austin, Leo Eddleman, Sherwood Wirt (panel), 1125

When Is Separation a Christian Duty? (part one), by Klaas Runia (A), 939; part two, 982

When to Pull the Plug, by Edward E. Plowman (N), 1161

Where Are the Seminaries Going? (E), 812

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, by Martin Luther King, Jr. (C. Ralston Smith) (B), 1263

Where the Action Is (E), 98

Whetting the Appetite for Papal Primacy (N), 972

Which Way for Greece?, by J. D. Douglas (N), 1208

White, Edward, death of (N), 525

White, M. Jackson

The Dangerous Christ (A), 243

How to Light up a Sermon (MW), 870

Whither the Church?, by J. W. Hyde (LF), 555

Who Are the Evangelicals? (E), 958

Who Says the New Testament Is Anti-Semitic?, by Geoffrey W. Bromiley (A), 548

Who Speaks for the Church? (E), 914

‘Why’ Generation, The, by W. Dayton Roberts (N), 227

Why Hurry a New Confession? (E), 402

Why Not a Christian College on a University Campus?, by John W. Snyder (A), 494

Why the Berlin Congress?, by Billy Graham (A), 131

Widener, Alice

discussion of her critique of WCC (A), 853

The Gospel of Revolution (Q), 499

Wife Charts a Sermon, by Jerry W. Hopkins (A), 902

Wightman, Joseph

new president of Erskine College (N), 933

Wigoder, Geoffrey, and Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion (Jakob Jocz) (B), 406

Wikgren, Allan, et al. (ed.): The Greek New Testament (Everett F. Harrison) (B), 357

Wilburn, Ralph G.: The Historical Shape of Faith (John Frederick Jansen) (B), 561

Wilder Smith, A. E.: Darwinism and Contemporary Thought (A), 843

Wilder Smith, A. E.: Herkunft and Zukunft des Menschen: Ein kritischer Überblick der dem Darwinismus und Christentum zugrunde liegenden naturwissenschaftlichen und geistlichen Prinzipien (Edwin Y. Monsma) (B), 462

Wilken, Robert L.

named to Fordham faculty (N), 413

Will American Baptists De-escalate or Advance Evangelism? (E), 710

Will Canada Be Secularized?, by Reginald Stackhouse (CRT), 1016

Will Protestant Church Schools Become a Third Force?, by Henry A. Muchanan and Bob W. Brown (A), 787

Will Roman Catholics Join the NCC? (N), 464

Will the NCC Discover Evangelism? (E), 352

Will Uppsala Trigger a Radical Shift for Protestantism? (E), 864

Willful Blackout, A, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 310

Williams, Colin

his book criticized (E), 160

to direct Doctor of Ministry program at University of Chicago Divinity School (N), 885

Williams, G. Mennon

considers entering Episcopal priesthood (N), 419

Williamson, Henry, death of (N), 420

Willoughby, William, et al.: Christians at Mass Media Frontiers (panel), 1176

Wilson, Art

re-elected president of Baptist Bible Fellowship International (N), 126

Wilson, Douglas J.: The Church Grows in Canada (Donald C. Masters) (B), 666

Wilson, Harold

interrupted in church service (N), 116

Wilson, Robert L.

predicts growth in new congregations (N), 1117

Wilson, Woodrow

Bullitt and Freud on (N), 320

Winds of Change … Puffs of Freedom? (E), 980

Winter, Gibson: Elements for a Social Ethic (George I. Mavrodes) (B), 966

Wirt, Sherwood, et al.: What’s the Sense of Work? (panel), 1125

Wisconsin

approves public housing for parochial schools (N), 780

Wisdom

true w. is from God (LF), 960

Wisdom from Above, by L. Nelson Bell (LF), 960

Wiseman, Clarence D.

national commander, Salvation Army, for Canada and Bermuda (N), 1015

With Good Reason, by Chester A. Pennington (Frank Sargent) (B), 1105

Wizzards That Peep and Mutter, by Paul Bauer (Andre Bustanoby) (B), 1099

Wogaman, Philip: Protestant Faith and Religious Liberty (Graham L. Hales) (B), 1152

Wolf, C. Umhau

to direct new Lutheran Institute for Religious Studies in Austin, Texas (N), 284

Women

in the Church (B), 715

Women in the World of Religion, by Elsie Thomas Culver (Margaret Johnston Hess) (B), 715

Woodburn, Robert

on NCC as a pressure group (E), 453

Woodfin, Yandall C., III

joins faculty of Baptist Theological Seminary, Rüschlikon, Switzerland (N), 284

Woodrum, Lon: Amos Goes to Washington (A), 607

The Dead and the Undying (A), 597

Woolley, Paul: Reinforcing the Wall Between Church and State (A), 988

Word about Advertisements, A (E), 509

World Congress on Evangelism—See October 28 issue

central evangelical concerns (E), 266

confusion of ‘evangelism’ (A), 132

delegates from many nations (N), 119

drama shows shrinking influence of Christianity (N), 227

footnotes to (L), 256

Haile Selassie to attend (N), 118

layman’s message to the (A), 294

major breakthrough for evangelicals (N), 226

panel position papers (A), 68–103

papers presented—See Nov. 11, 1966 issue

preparations for (N), 50

program (A), 67

reasons for (A), 131

sidelights on (N), 283

statement adopted (E), 216

‘watershed in the history of evangelism’ (E), 34

World Congress, The: Springboard for Evangelical Renewal (N), 226

World Council of Churches

adds to membership (N), 1210

analysis of 1966 Conference on Church and Society (A), 499

avoids religious liberty issue in Crete (E), 1198

Central Committee meeting on Crete (N), 1208

defense of … on church and society (A), 853

Pope Paul may address 1967 assembly in Sweden (N), 629

pre-thinking Uppsala (CRT), 1221

socialism and (A), 855

socio-economic considerations dominate plans for 1968 assembly (E), 864

World Day of Prayer

NAE offers Bible materials for (N), 419

World Fellowship of Buddhists

meet to discuss world peace and the prohibition of political involvement (N), 327

World Student Christian Federation

plans conference in Finland in 1968 (N), 1063

World Vision

De Jong, Spencer, to direct Indonesian orphanages (N), 1219

sponsors international art talent contest among orphans (N), 885

Worldwide Evangelism-in-Depth

calls for consultation of evangelists (N), 1247

Worship in Israel: A Cultic History of the Old Testament, by Hans-Joachim Kraus (Edward J. Young) (B), 314

Wright, Bishop John

to attend Synod of Bishops in Rome (N), 932

Wycliffe Bible Translators

moving to Dallas in 1968 (N), 973

Y

Yadin, Yigael

discovers Solomon’s gate at Gezer (N), 927

Year of Mixed Blessings in Church History and Theology, A, by Geoffrey W. Bromiley (A), 427

You and the New Morality—74 Cases, by James A. Pike (William C. Brownson) (B), 1003

You Don’t Have to Have It!, by Thomas B. McDormand (A), 693

Young, Ford E.

new dorm, Central Baptist Theological Seminary (N), 835

Young Life Campaign

Bob Mitchell new field director (N), 236

Young, Whitney M., Jr.

appeals for encyclical against racism (N), 1218

Your Bible, by Louis Cassels (John H. Kromminga) (B), 873

Your Pastor’s Problems: A Guide for Ministers and Laymen, by William E. Hulme (Lars I. Granberg) (B), 315

Youth

how to minister to (E), 609

spirit of defiance (E), 307

runs survey of personalities liked and disliked by teen-agers (N), 373

Yugoslavia

Graham in (N), 1109

Yzermans, Vincent A.

new editor of Our Sunday Visitor (N), 1015

Z

Zen-Buddhism (E), 1144

Zhidkov, Jakov, death of (N), 237

Zimmermann, Wolf-Dieter (ed.): I Knew Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Reminiscences of His Friends (Geoffrey W. Bromiley) (B), 517

Zwemer, Samuel M.

tribute to (E), 659

The Hermeneutical Problem

Hermeneutics today poses one of the most important challenges to theology. The volume Theology as History (“New Frontiers in Theology,” III, 1967) is only an example of current interest in the problems of Scripture interpretation. The problem that hermeneutics places before theology has many sides. It is focused, first of all, on the Scriptures as the Word of God (a focus seen, for example, in the discussions that buzz around the names of Bultmann, Fuchs, Ebeling, Pannenberg, et al.). But along with this, it has to do with the reading of the confessions of the churches.

This problem touches the whole gamut of theology and of every confession. For here an effort is made to get at the essential and unique message that the churches wanted to express in their confessions. The words of the confessions are of enormous importance, of course, but words must be read with their associations. And this demands an accounting of the historical background of the creeds, of the polemics that gave rise to them, of the whole situation in which they were created. What was the intention behind the dogma? This is the question.

Roman Catholic theologians are involved in today’s reflections on the hermeneutical problem in a special way. The interpretation of Scripture has been central in the Reformation churches from the beginning. But today hermeneutical questioning of dogmas (in Roman Catholic context, the infallible dogmas) is lively in Roman Catholic circles also, and it is very much a part of the ecumenical situation. The question in the background is this: Does hermeneutics offer the possibility of a convergence that was impossible until now? Henrich Ott has spoken of a “converging interpretation” that brings theologians closer together without compromise. This is the central problem of interpretation today.

Is the current trend legitimate or does it imply a reduction of conviction, an irenicism that shaves the edges off deep commitment? Aware that something new is afoot, writers sometimes create the impression that hermeneutics has to do with a very simple matter: the dissociation between the literal text in its historical, time-conditioned form and the essential matter that is being confessed. In practice, however, this dissociation is not easy to determine. Opinions often differ as to what is essential and what is only form, what is abiding and what is only the verbal garment of another time.

The problem of interpretation has been acute in other days also. For instance, the modernism of the early years of our century also sought to distinguish between form and content. It sought, as it were, to rescue the pearl of great price from the house of criticism. But the effort ended in a radical reduction of the Gospel; truth was victimized by human whim.

In our time, with the hermeneutical problem associated with ecumenicity, concern is also aroused lest new methods of interpretation result in the error of reductionism. More than one pope has expressed this concern—see Humani Generis, 1950, and Mysterium Fidei, 1965. The writers of these encyclicals tended to insist that truth and its formulation are very intimately bound together. The formulations in which the Church has clothed dogma have also been the work of the Holy Spirit and must therefore be preserved. Given this view, there can be no real problem of interpretation.

The historical aspect of church teachings does not affect the abiding character of the truth if the form is considered to be as much the work of the Spirit as the content. In Mysterium Fidei, for example, we read that transubstantiation is not merely a culturally conditioned term, and that words like substance and species are “valid for all men of all times and places.” This encyclical was directed against the idea of symbolism in the Eucharist. But the encyclical has been criticized; it has been said that the Pope’s attack on the new hermeneutics rests on a misunderstanding. For, it is said, the new approach does not intend to oppose symbol to reality in the sacrament. Besides, it is contended, transubstantiation did in fact arise in a context of Aristotelian concepts with which medieval and Tridentine thinkers worked. It is unlikely, then, that the encyclical Mysterium Fidei will have much influence.

The fact is too clear that specific times have put their stamp on the Church’s formulations of dogma; the task of getting at the deepest intent lying behind the formulations is unavoidable. This is the hermeneutical task. That it may be dangerous is undeniable. What one generation discerns as the essence is conditioned by the insights of its own time. And the distinction between form and content can be used to slough off the traditional confession of the Church.

But the dangers involved may not be used as an excuse to avoid the task; the problem of interpretation is real and inescapable. There is every reason to search out the deeper motives in the speech of the Church. We do this when, for instance, we try to understand the essential differences between the Reformed and the Lutheran view of the Lord’s Supper. Both accept a real presence of Christ; how do they differ?

In the present situation—granted the presence of dangers—there is a real possibility of a “converging interpretation,” and that without compromise. If it is to be achieved, a large measure of openness and honesty will be required. We should beware of attacks on the confession that bear the name “interpretation.” But, in the community of faith, we must seek out those elements of faith that unite us.

To do this we must reckon with the historical conditionedness and the changeability of the formulations the Church has given of the truth. That changes have occurred is evident in that phrase of the ancient confession: “descended into hell.” One may not appeal to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in a way that suggests that his guidance does away with all historical influences and the need for hermeneutical study. The Holy Spirit leads the Church but does not release it from the conditions of history or set it above the effects of time and place.

This realization creates new tasks for us in the area of the hermeneutics of the Holy Scriptures. The Word of God is the only possibility we have for a converging interpretation. Its resources are rich and deep, and we have yet to mine it out. Bound to the one Lord, we are challenged to test all formulations in the light of his truth.

G. C. BERKOUWER

Book Briefs: September 29, 1967

The Crises Confronting Evangelicals

Evangelicals at the Brink of Crisis: Significance of the World Congress on Evangelism, by Carl F. H. Henry (Word, 1967, 120 pp., $1.75), is reviewed by Gerald Kennedy, bishop of the Los Angeles Area, The Methodist Church, Los Angeles, California.

A high-school student in an English class was surprised to learn he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. After reading this book I concluded that I am more of an evangelical Christian than I knew because there is so much here with which I agree completely.

Let me say right away about this volume that not only will it bring comfort to those within the evangelical fold; its pointed criticism should also force an honest reaction from those outside it. Indeed, for all who have uncritically assumed that everything ecumenical has to be good, this book should be required reading. Dr. Henry points out in the introduction that Time magazine “emphasized the controversial Bishop James A. Pike above the events in the Berlin Kongresshalle from October the 25th to November the 4th, 1966,” though the worldwide scope of this World Congress on Evangelism made it significant.

After the introduction, which includes the congress declaration, Henry speaks about “Evangelicals and the Theological Crisis.” He maintains the continued centrality of the Bible and the secondary position of tradition, taking issue with the Roman Catholic brethren on this point. His implication is always that there are some things that ought not to be compromised in the name of unity. He denies universal salvation while insisting upon the universality of the Christian religion. He is aware of the theological weakness of evangelicals and pleads for a new and stronger emphasis on theology. The editor of CHRISTIANITY TODAY is himself a first-class theologian, and he deals competently with this subject.

In the next chapter, “Evangelicals and the Evangelistic Crisis,” Henry expresses a lack of confidence in new evangelistic gadgets and methods. The Christian is by his very nature evangelistic; loss of this characteristic means that his central religious experience has grown dim. In a day when “it takes six pastors and one thousand laymen in the United States to introduce one person to Jesus Christ in an entire year,” something obviously is missing. The book summons those whom we call conservative Christians back to this fundamental task, and it certainly has a clear word for liberals also.

When he comes to “Evangelicals and the Social Crisis,” the author says that evangelicals believe in more than the personal Gospel. From Billy Graham on down, he says, evangelicals are now committed to Christian social causes. Yet there is this warning: “A program that emphasizes good works and neglects the great creedal affirmations of Christianity has in fact little to distinguish itself from an adult version of the Boy Scouts.” This chapter emphasizes that social action cut off from a theological foundation quickly becomes a very shallow thing.

The closing chapter is “Evangelicals and the Ecumenical Crisis.” Henry believes that the ecumenical movement has been willing to sacrifice theology for denominational union, and that it “is still no nearer an agreed definition of evangelism than it ever was.” In a day when to say anything negative about “the ecumenical movement” is like talking against prayer, it is refreshing to hear some pointed criticisms of what is being left out and of the direction in which the Church is being led.

There are some places in this book where things are said in a different way than I would say them. And in a few instances it seems to me that too much emphasis is placed upon secondary matter. But I can feel quite at home in this atmosphere of Evangelicals at the Brink of Crisis, and I believe evangelicals are an essential and challenging part of the Christian Church. I do not want to be separated from them.

Life As A Free Man

Setting Men Free, by Bruce Larson (Zondervan, 1967, 120 pp., $2.95), is reviewed by Vance H. Webster, pastor, First Baptist Church, Eugene, Oregon.

“Are you satisfied with your life the way it is? Does the world need another person like you? Do you ever ask yourself what you are getting out of life? Are you standing on the hose of God’s blessing to you?” These are some of the pertinent questions with which Bruce Larson confronts the readers of this book. And he suggests that questions like these are valuable as we seek to be effective conversationalists for Christ.

As executive director of the magazine and the fellowship of “Faith at Work,” Larson writes out of a rich background, a warm heart, and a deep concern to encourage laymen and ministers to join in small groups and person-to-person ministries, which were so effective in New Testament times. “The Great Adventure of our time,” says Larson, “is that God is raising up secular saints for today’s society.”

The book is based upon the words of Jesus in John 8:36, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” In Christ there is a new freedom for living and for service. Larson desires to motivate laymen and ministers to bring Christ’s renewal into the lives of those around them. His presentation is in two parts; the first five chapters deal with the arts of living, conversation, introduction, strategy, and communication, and the second five present the gifts of humility, freedom, dialogue, love, and fellowship.

The book is interesting reading and is well illustrated with examples of what the author has seen Christ do in the lives of innumerable people. He challenges us as “twentieth-century Christians to discover, as did our first-century counterparts, that the most effective and relevant communication or witnessing can take place in the market place, at the country club, in the union hall, in the supermarket, and in the office.”

The Velvet Revolution

The Eumenical Revolution, by Robert McAfee Brown (Doubleday, 1967, 388 pp., $5.95) and Vatican Council II: Volume I: The First Session, by Antoine Wenger, translated by Robert J. Olson (Newman, 1966, 261 pp., $5.50) are reviewed by Bruce Shelley, professor of church history, Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary, Denver, Colorado.

The Ecumenical Revolution will leave conservative evangelicals with mixed feelings of satisfaction and apprehension. Only the most intransigent anti-Catholic will fail to accept gratefully many of the changes introduced by Vatican II. And only the naive evangelical will fail to realize that “the coming great church” of some ecumenists includes the church of Rome.

Surveying the achievements of Vatican II with Professor Brown (of Stanford), one can only be pleased with the current renewal within Roman Catholicism. Perhaps “revolution” is not too strong a word. Consider the major results of the council. An official statement on religious liberty at last! A rejection of the two-sources theory of revelation! A revision of the centuries-old Latin liturgy! A serious modification of the centralization of the hierarchy! The church that never changes has changed. Irreformable statements are, in fact, reformable. That fact itself may be the most far-reaching theological consequence emerging from Vatican II.

Of religious liberty, Brown writes “The Council was faced with two popes, within a hundred years of each other, saying diametrically opposite things. How could they be made to be saying the same thing?” Well, they have. But the question today is, How much can Rome reform and remain Rome?

Brown is confident that Protestantism and Catholicism are “reaching out” for each other, but he is not clear about what sort of union the embrace will bring. Will Rome join the World Council of Churches? That, Brown feels, would be tactically unwise at the present. One thing is patently clear, he says, episcopacy will be one of the features of a reunited church. We need not quibble, however, about the meaning of episcopacy. Simply get the couple to the marriage altar, he advises; understanding can follow the wedding.

Such openness of definition does not bother Brown. He is an optimist. He does not side-step difficulties, but he always puts an ecumenical issue in the brightest light and finds hope for the best results.

Those of us in the believers’ church tradition will find Brown’s snubbing of “sectaries” a bit annoying. He defines Protestantism in terms of the magisterial reformation and proceeds to interpret events accordingly. (1) In an otherwise excellent discussion, he ignores the Anabaptist contribution to religious liberty. (2) In his description of cooperative social action, he takes no serious account of the “present evil age” of the New Testament and the radical reformation.

Evangelicals will be bothered by his ignoring the nineteenth-century evangelical awakening in his survey of ecumenical beginnings and by his discussion of “conversion.” The “problem of proselytism” grows as the ecumenical mood mounts. “The posture of Catholics and Protestants to one another,” writes Brown, “… is not the posture of seeking to gain more converts from the other than one loses. It is not to engage in conversion work at all.…” Moreover, ecumenism makes “conversion” an improper stance of the Christian toward the Jew. Since the Vatican has created, in addition to the Secretariat for Non-Believers, a Secretariat for Christianity and the Non-Christian Religions to enable the church to enter into dialogue with Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and Jews, are we to conclude that the need to share the Gospel with men without Christ has vanished?

The Ecumenical Movement breaks little new ground. It surveys the boundary between Catholic and Protestant ecumenism and does it well. It has one major omission, which Professor Brown recognizes: the place of Orthodoxy. That is where Father Wenger’s volume comes in. Although it covers only the first session of the council, Vatican Council II reveals the behind-the-scene role of Pope John, the early turn of the council toward a more representative assembly, and the background of the invitations sent to observers. Wenger discusses the diplomacy involving Rome, Moscow, and Constantinople, and the striking way the Russians pulled the rug out from under Constantinople’s participation in the first session.

Since Wenger’s is a Catholic newspaperman’s account of the initial session of the council, the general reader will probably prefer to turn to Brown’s book for an overview of the council and leave Wenger’s work to the historian for more detailed study.

Reading for Perspective

CHRISTIANITY TODAY’S REVIEW EDITORS CALL ATTENTION TO THESE NEW TITLES:

• Who Speaks for the Church?, by Paul Ramsey (Abingdon, $2.45). A brilliant critique of the procedures in political policy-making exhibited by the World Council of Churches at its Geneva Conference on Church and Society.

• Baker’s Dictionary of Practical Theology, edited by Ralph G. Turnbull (Baker, $8.95). Every minister should have this scholarly source book on preaching, hermeneutics, evangelism, counseling, and other aspects of practical theology.

• The Davidson Affair, by Stuart Jackman (Eerdmans, $3.50). In the vivid immediacy of a news documentary, novelist Jackman grippingly re-creates the events surrounding the death and resurrection of Jesus “Davidson.”

How Israel’S Laws Developed

The Laws in the Pentateuch and Other Studies, by Martin Noth (Fortress, 1967, 289 pp., $8.50), is reviewed by R. Laird Harris, dean and professor of Old Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri.

Eleven articles of Martin Noth published in various German sources over the years 1938–58 are here collected in English. The major article—almost half the volume—is “The Laws in the Pentateuch.” The other items include both exegetical and theological studies.

Noth’s ideas are not those of the older Wellhausen developmental theory. The book, however, is a critical study of the development of Israel’s laws considered under the covenant concept. The meaning of the laws is not extensively studied.

Following the earlier ideas of Albrecht Alt, Noth emphasizes the premonarchic period of Israel’s history and locates the origin of many of Israel’s laws in that era. His claim is that the Pentateuchal laws could not have originated as state laws during the monarchy. For instance, the name “Jerusalem” does not occur in the entire Pentateuch, and “Israel” as used in the Pentateuch means the whole twelve tribes. Noth believes that Israel’s laws and Israel as a nation began before the monarchy when Israel was a confederacy of twelve loosely associated tribes, each in its own month caring for a central altar. Obviously, he pays little attention to the patriarchal histories of Genesis now so fully illuminated by archaeology.

Noth, probably influenced by Dead Sea Scroll studies, corrects his previous dating of the groundwork of Chronicles to 400 B.C., and he holds that the P document never had an independent existence. These and other positions bring into question some cherished points of older higher criticism. Unfortunately, many of Noth’s own views are equally subjective.

Breaking The Vicious Cycle

The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy, by Lee Rainwater and William L. Yancey, including the full text of The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (MIT Press, 1967, 493 pp., $3.95, paper), is reviewed by David O. Moberg, professor of sociology and chairman, Department of Social Sciences, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Under the smoke clouds of flaming, riot-torn cities, this is an enlightening book to read. It helps one understand why united action to help underprivileged Negroes has been impossible. It reveals distortions and misrepresentations that enter into discussions, news reports, magazine articles, and plans for social action. It illuminates self-deceptive processes that blind religious leaders, social scientists, and civil-rights spokesmen to their own errors and make them view other persons’ truthful perspectives as distorted and selfish. It helps correct the error of those Christians who see social problems in terms of a purely personal morality. (This error makes it easy to say that the hardship suffered by minority-group victims results from their sinfulness, a tendency that is strengthened because symptoms of the problems include high rates of illegitimacy, crime, and desertion.) Above all, it greatly clarifies the problems of American Negroes.

In March, 1965, Daniel Moynihan, then assistant secretary of labor, wrote a report on the condition of the American Negro. The document was first circulated privately to key government leaders and was made available for general distribution late that summer. It emphasizes problems of the family and the vicious circle prevalent among a substantial proportion of American Negroes (and certainly present also among whites). Since Negro men have no stable place in the economic system, they cannot be strong husbands and fathers. Therefore families break up, and women must rear children without male help. Growing up without a stable home life, children are unable to achieve in school, and they drop out. Hence they are unable to qualify for stable jobs that provide a decent family income, and so the cycle starts all over again.

Moynihan recommended that government programs break the circle by giving direct attention to strengthening the Negro family instead of sustaining it, as current welfare policies tend to do. He was one of the drafters of President Johnson’s speech of June 4, 1965, “To Fulfill These Rights,” which in effect called for action along lines suggested in the Moynihan Report:

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘you are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity.… So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together—all the rest: schools and playgrounds, public assistance and private concern, will never be enough to cut completely the circle of despair and deprivation.

Despite such strong support and even a White House conference on fulfilling the rights of Negroes, the program flopped. Why?

The authors have attempted to piece the story together by examining articles, speeches, and political maneuvers, by interviewing sixty-one key persons on all sides of the controversy, and by participating in activities related to the White House conference. The texts of key government statements, journalists’ interpretations, social scientists’ reactions, civil-rights leaders’ speeches, and the Moynihan Report itself are included in the book. Among those involved in the debate were certain church leaders and Christian publications, but neither CHRISTIANITY TODAY, the National Association of Evangelicals, nor evangelical leaders receive any attention. Their silence prevented these spokesmen from making embarrassing mistakes, but at the same time this neglect may reflect a head-in-the-sand stance toward current social issues. If so, a subtle indictment of being unconcerned about the family life, material welfare, and even spiritual well-being of America’s largest racial minority may be levied against them.

Much of the book can be interpreted as “Monday morning quarterbacking.” The hindsight about what went wrong with plans for action to improve Negro family life after they seemed effectively launched is sharpened by excellent interpretative reporting. The most important factors in the failure were growing involvement in the Viet Nam War, the Watts riots, and the opposition of some civil-rights leaders and Negro spokesmen who felt that focusing attention upon Negro family problems would lead to inaction, since people would claim that Negroes could lift themselves up by their own bootstraps through “self-help” programs.

The Moynihan Report contained little that was new to sociologists, who had studied the problem as much as a generation ago. Yet there remain gaps in the information, partly as a result of the “color blind” policies of government records. Significant questions are raised about the ways in which social scientists can and ought to be involved in public controversy; chapter 13 is an outstanding survey of this problem.

Clergymen can profit from reading this book in several ways. They can learn by analogy how their communications can be misinterpreted to mean the very opposite of what they intended. (The Moynihan Report was labeled as liberal propaganda and as “subtle racism.”) They can gain information about Negro problems that hinder evangelism and help explain their other difficulties. They will be reminded not to trust secondhand reports of basic documents (even if they come from churchly sources!). They will receive a case study of men’s propensity to notice what they want to notice and to ignore even the central ideas of contrary messages. They will recognize the need for cooperative action through lobbying and special-interest groups in order to bring about changes in and through government. They will realize anew that a message prepared for one audience (like the Moynihan Report, which was written for key government leaders) may not communicate effectively to another (such as newsmen and the general public). The same words can communicate different messages when addressed to different audiences.

The social issues raised in the Moynihan Report and discussed so well in this book remain with us. The controversies will recur repeatedly until the vicious cycle is broken and justice and equal opportunity have been established.

Quest For The Perfect World

Utopia: The Perennial Heresy, by Thomas Molnar (Sheed and Ward, 1967, 245 pp., $5.95), is reviewed by John Wesley Raley, chancellor, Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma.

The parochial-minded American is disconcerted to learn that his country did not originate the idea of individual freedom or religious liberty within the framework of a political system. He must learn that man’s search for freedom is perpetual—and also that it is perennially betrayed.

In Utopia, The Perennial Heresy, Thomas Molnar traces the hopes of mankind through the forms of utopianism and explodes the generally accepted myth that the utopian process and goal are desirable. He defines, examines, and denounces utopianism as a basic philosophy that moves in counter-purpose to primitive Christian concepts.

Man seeks absolution for personal guilt through collective action whereby the entire community or state is cleansed. Beginning with this initial aberration, the utopianist moves farther away from Christianity and from the basic norms of a society of free men.

He may seek social perfection either in a godless state (e.g., the Marxist state) or in a divinely oriented state in which communal concerns are paramount (e.g., the European medieval system of a merged church and state). In each case, the state, speaking in the name of freedom for man, destroys that freedom.

Utopianism currently takes another form. Religion is secularized, science is enthroned, God is redefined and given a new role, and Christianity is considered increasingly irrelevant. In bold strokes Molnar outlines the scientific man. The heresy is fully revealed. A collective mankind becomes God, and God is, according to Tillich, not a person or even a name but “the ground of our being.” The thought of Saint-Simon, Huxley, and Teilhard de Chardin is bringing into being a new world.

In such a world, says Molnar, politics will become an exact science manipulated by twenty-one selected geniuses, “The Council of Newton.” Newton will become God, and the “Oligarchy of Scholars” will direct the affairs of all mankind. The perennial heresy of utopia finds a fitting form for every age.

This book is strong meat for church leaders and should be studied for the light it sheds on temptations now confronting the Church. It serves as a reminder that man is a person before God, and not “a super-organism and collective thought-machine.”

‘It Ain’T Necessarily So!’

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harper & Row, 1967, 209 pp., $4.95), is reviewed by C. Ralston Smith, director of development,CHRISTIANITY TODAY.

This is the fourth volume to come from the heart of this comparatively young man who has within a decade become an internationally recognized champion of the Negro people. Dr. King continues to preach the reasonableness and necessity of recognition by men of every sort and color of the rights of all others. In this proclamation the arguments are weighted in favor of the Negro in America, and ultimately in favor of the colored people throughout the world. The six chapters move from a review of the present situation in America to a projection of what can be expected on a worldwide scope.

One is repeatedly moved to a sincere “amen” as King rehearses cogent arguments and obvious facts. While he pleads for patience as new nations struggle for independence, he also shows great and understandable impatience at the snail’s pace of equality here in our homeland. He gives a splendid review of the history of the Negro in America and of the conditions that have contributed to the liabilities still present in our urban Negro communities. King’s list of talented and successful Negroes is impressive evidence of the ability of those who have been given a chance. Notably absent from the list is Adam Clayton Powell, whom King later dismisses rather tersely.

The author is consistent in advocating non-violence and will have no part in the “Black Power” movement when it involves rioting and “defense” activities. He deplores these as means that have continually failed, and substitutes “pressure” as the successful agent.

The yearning of this champion of equality is epitomized in this sentence: “If the society changes its concepts by placing the responsibility on its system, not on the individual, and guarantees secure employment or a minimum income, dignity will come within the reach of all.” But, like all other panaceas, this one is too simple. And it runs contrary to the character of man as he was intended when created in the image of the Almighty. Little or nothing is said in the book about requiring industry or accepting responsibility, or about the baseness of human nature and its need for regeneration. All King requires, it seems, is that American capitalism give over its profits to universal urban renewal, the government of the United States use its space-exploration funds for the education and employment of Negroes, and the democratic nations disarm, whatever others of humanistic or atheistic disposition might do. To all this simplistic reasoning one must say, “It ain’t necessarily so!”

Book Briefs

Salt and Light, by Eberhard Arnold (Plough Publishing House, 1967, 342 pp., $4.75). The founder of the Society of Brothers offers reflections on the Sermon on the Mount that stress God’s forgiveness. He calls men to a life of complete trust in God so that their attitudes toward God’s kingdom, other men, material wealth, and earthly power are transformed.

In the Biblical Preacher’s Workshop, by Dwight E. Stevenson (Abingdon, 1967, 223 pp., $3.95). A peep over the shoulder of a professor of homiletics at Lexington Theological Seminary shows how the would-be expository preacher might well approach his task.

Resurrection Then and Now, by James McLeman (Lippincott, 1967, 255 pp., $3.95). Two adverbs in the title mark this book’s polarities: the “then” is the Resurrection of Jesus as understood and taught by the historic Christian faith; the “now” is McLeman’s fanciful reconstruction, stated as “not a deduction from fact but the creation of faith.” The old is better.

New Testament Commentary: Exposition of Ephesians, by William Hendriksen (Baker, 1967, 290 pp., $6.95). The indefatigable commentator makes his way through the N.T. literature. This is Hendriksen’s seventh volume and offers an exegetical and practical treatment of the text based on his own translation. Pauline authorship is defended by some independent study, and the author discusses rival views, if only to reject them. But occasionally his method borders on the fanciful, as when he uses the Greek word for “blessing” to supply a mnemonic device for an outline of Ephesians!

Genesis, by Nathaniel Kravitz (Philosophical Library, 1967, 83 pp., $3.95). Subtitled “A New Interpretation of the First Three Chapters” of Genesis, this book is a hodge-podge of little theological or exegetical value, written by a Jewish writer.

Quest for Reality, compiled by Merton B. Osborn (Moody, 1967, 128 pp., $2.50). Personal testimonies of encounters with God by fifteen well-known people, including Tony Fontane, Bobby Richardson, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek.

Ideas

Remember the Reformation!

“Primitive Christianity and the Reformation are the two greatest revolutions in history.” This sentence, written in 1835 by the Swiss historian, J. H. Merle d’Aubigné, reflects the sentiment of the earliest Protestants that the Reformation was an act of God comparable only to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. In 1528, just eleven years after Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses, the Lutherans of Brunswick started to remember the Reformation. A “Reformation Festival” joined Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension Day, and Whitsunday on the church calendar. The reformers of Brunswick believed they were witnessing God at work in a way that had not been seen since the age of the apostles. Fellow evangelicals shared this opinion, and the practice of observing a Reformation Day spread.

Some Lutherans placed their Reformation observance on St. Martin’s Day in November, in memory of Luther’s birth, for they considered Luther the most powerful preacher of the Gospel since Paul. Others selected the Sunday before June 24, the nativity of John the Baptist, because they were convinced that Luther, like John, was a prophet preparing a path for the Saviour. Still others set it on Trinity Sunday, thus following observance of the birth of the Church on Pentecost with observance of its rebirth in the Reformation.

A uniform date began to be established after 1667, when Elector John George II of Saxony placed Reformation Day on October 31, the day on which Luther posted his theses. By then Lutheran Protestants were unanimous in their understanding of what Reformation Day signified. As Jesus had cleansed the temple in Jerusalem, so Luther had purged the church of Rome. October 31, therefore, was a “day to remember” because it was a “day of the Lord,” a day commemorating the renewal of biblical Christianity. It recalled, in the words of the Formula of Concord, that “by the special grace and mercy of the Almighty, the teaching … of our Christian faith … was once more clearly set forth on the basis of the Word of God and was purified by Dr. Luther, of blessed and holy memory.…” During the nineteenth century Protestants of many denominations adopted the custom of commemorating the Reformation on October 31.

Four hundred and fifty years have now passed since that eventful eve of All Saints, 1517, when young Luther inaugurated the Protestant Reformation. In the intervening centuries the whole face of the earth has been transformed and the entire fabric of society altered. Protestantism, which started with one Augustinian monk, has grown into a world-wide religion numbering nearly 228,000,000 members. Roman Catholicism, inspired by saintly leaders from Ignatius Loyola to Pope John XXIII, has sought internal reforms in the Council of Trent and in the Second Vatican Council. The West, economically, has experienced commercial and industrial revolutions, and factories have replaced manors and farms as the major means of production. Previously untapped sources of energy have been utilized, and horse power has been superseded by steam power and, in the last twenty years, atomic power. Political attention has shifted from Rome, Madrid, and Vienna to Washington, Moscow, and Peiping. A New World, largely unexplored in 1517, has emerged to occupy Europe’s position as the nucleus of Western civilization. Militarily, according to historian Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr., man has fought nine world wars; now he teeters on the brink of a tenth one, to be waged with atomic weapons. In international diplomacy, leadership has passed from Spain to Holland, from Holland to France, from France to Britain, and, since 1945, from Britain to the United States, a nation that did not even exist in the sixteenth century. In the years since the Protestant Reformation ushered in the modern age, there have been five decisive political revolutions—the British of 1688, the American of 1776, the French of 1789, the Russian of 1917, and the Chinese of 1949—involving the new ideologies of democracy, nationalism, and Communism. Between 1650 and 1950 the population of this planet increased more than fourfold, and it continues to soar. The geographical horizons of Western man have widened immensely. In 1517 Spanish and Portuguese navigators were venturing into the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in tiny barks in the maiden voyages of discovery. In 1967 Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts investigate outer space in sophisticated space vehicles.

Because we live in a time profoundly different from the sixteenth century, some have wondered whether it is worth our while to remember the Reformation. They concede that scholars may satiate their curiosity by studying the personalities, accomplishments, principles, and perspectives of the period, but they doubt whether Reformation ideas and insights are applicable to the problems of the twentieth-century Church. To them, the Reformation record is a report of the religious tribulations of early modern Europe. We, however, must move forward to a “New Reformation.”

If, on the other hand, as d’Aubigné suggested, the Reformation brought a return to the power of the primitive Church, then we would do well to recall its men and recapture its message. Toward the end of the first century the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews invited a new generation of Christians to reflect on the leaders and legacy of apostolic Christianity. Similarly, we may with profit bring to mind again the reappearance of that faith nearly five hundred years ago. The Epistle to the Hebrews was addressed to Christians in crisis, faced with the dangers of apostasy and doctrinal drifting, and it encouraged them to stand firm in the faith through a revived appreciation and renewed application of their heritage: “Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God; consider the outcome of their life, and imitate their faith” (13:7, RSV).

The leaders were, of course, the great heroes of the faith. The greatness of the Protestant Reformation lay in its determination to recover apostolic perspectives. We shall do well, in the closing third of the twentieth century, to follow the admonition of the Reformers. They would point us to the Bible for light on the crucial problems that trouble and confuse Christians today—the unity crisis among the churches, the community crisis in American society, the authority crisis in recent theology, and the identity crisis of the individual. Observance of Reformation Day will be ecumenically meaningful, socially significant, theologically relevant, and personally satisfying if we do not disregard their call.

A Call To Southern Presbyterians

Southern Presbyterians are worried. They number 955,000, including 3,700 active ministers. But in 1966 there were only 4,000 additions by profession of faith. It took nearly 240 Southern Presbyterian ministers and members to make one convert last year, and the large majority of those added were children of church families. Moreover, the Southeast is second only to the Pacific Coast in population growth rate. In one year 3,700 ministers, 34,500 elders, 38,000 deacons, and 880,000 communicants ought to reach more people with the Gospel.

The 1967 General Assembly had something concrete to say about the problem of evangelism. It was not satisfied to rest with an increase in giving of $5,000,000 that lifted the per-capita rate to $122.59, and not willing to be deflected into a disguised universalism that places nearly total emphasis upon social and political action as the Church’s primary business. By overwhelming vote the General Assembly resolved “that, since the primary objective of our Church is the salvation of lost souls, the General Assembly challenge each officer of our Church actively to offer the message of salvation to at least one of God’s children during the coming year; that a copy of this motion be sent to each officer; that the Moderator offer at this time a prayer for those who are not of the household of God.”

By a special mailing from the office of the Stated Clerk, each ordained man in the denomination is receiving a copy of this statement. He now knows where the highest authority in the structure of his church says the emphasis should be placed. Will he take it seriously?

The Teacher Strikes

Everybody talks about problems of the inner-city school, but few have done much about them. Until this fall, that is, when thousands of the nation’s teachers cut classes, sometimes in defiance of law, demanding more money (requested base salary generally about $7,000), more control over educational policy and discipline (teachers want authority to bar unruly students from their classes), and relief from multiple nonprofessional duties. Unfortunately, the interests of the students were sometimes overlooked as the strikes hit numerous communities in Michigan, Florida, Illinois, and New York City. In all, about 600,000 students were affected. Observers in Harlem reported that parents have strongly opposed the teacher strike, claiming that it is depriving children of desperately needed education. No doubt many of the teachers’ demands are legitimate. But it is a sad commentary on the capacities for constructive change within the nation that strikes, demonstrations, and violence increasingly replace law, dialogue, and education as agents of reform.

Unrest In Milwaukee

The Rev. James Groppi of Milwaukee has joined the ranks of militant, violence-oriented black-revolution advocates such as H. “Rap” Brown and Stokely Carmichael. The white Roman Catholic priest led violence-pocked demonstrations aimed at wresting an open-housing ordinance from the local government.

What began as a “mothers’ march” to the mayor’s office ended in a violent scene in which 100 militants, reportedly directed by Groppi, smashed windows, ransacked files, slashed upholstery, and reduced the lobby to a shambles. Father Groppi, who earlier had urged marchers at a church rally to protest in “suffering love,” encouraged the destruction and announced that “cool it” was no longer part of his vocabulary. Unfortunately, anti-Groppi members of Milwaukee’s Polish Catholic community behaved no better.

When civil-rights demonstrations turn from peaceful protests to angry clashes marked by bottle-and rock-throwing, mass arrests, and the wanton destruction of public property, the cause of racial justice suffers serious setbacks. All Christians should work to end the oppressive discrimination that so long has crushed the Negro. But when demonstrations are led by clergymen who advocate violence and force, the Christian principle of love is mocked and participation by churchmen becomes hypocrisy.

During a run-in with people whom J. Edgar Hoover might call disciples of the “gospel of nihilism” we took a Christian stance, insisting that God is man’s last hope. We were interrupted by a bearded churl who said with a sneer, “It’s like you’re sick, man!”

He wasn’t far off. We are sick! For one thing, we are sick of unwashed, unruly potheads who shoot from the lip at our generation.

We are sick of living with unflagging tensions that are due to the condition of our cities. We are appalled at watching metropolitan areas roar into ruin while human pack rats carry off people’s hard-earned property, joking with each other as they do it—and police stand by under orders to hold their fire.

We are sick of hearing people say it had to be this way in order for the Negro to get his rights. Deeply as we deplore the injustices done to Negroes, we cannot believe that turning our great American cities into torches will right our wrongs.

We are sick from the feeling, which refuses to go away, that someone is out to make this not a better world but a far worse one. Whether there is a “conspiracy” afoot we will leave to those in the know; or whether the Communists have a big hand in this business we can’t be sure—even if we have the thought that the Communists might not want to let this opportunity pass without setting a few fires. But we are certain that anarchy threatens to overwhelm order in this country if our present madness is not stopped.

We are sick, too, of the way our government seems to approach this problem. It appears to think that if we pour enough money over the conflagration it will go out. This seems a sort of insanity. We favor every community’s getting rid of slums and we cry loud for civil rights for all people, colored, colorless, or multicolored. But, in heaven’s name, what has civil rights got to do with Negroes’ making Negroes homeless through the use of Molotov cocktails?

All authentic civil-rights leaders denounce these slaughterous rampages in our streets. Only the out-and-out revolutionaries—those fireheads who cry for black men to take up arms against “whitey”—shout in favor of this horror. If these men are civil rights workers, Charlie McCarthy was a Marxist!

We are sick, we repeat, at our government’s idea that money can end anarchy in our streets. Do you stop hoodlums by paying them to stop? The government’s very thought of trying to stem criminality with a dollar sign appears to imply that the vast majority of Negroes are rebels against the democratic order and can be pacified with sufficient funds. Any intelligent person, black or white, is aware that the great body of Negroes in America are simply people trying to live normal lives, asking only that they be treated as human beings equal to all other human beings. They do not follow the black-power revolutionaries. And the Negro leader who said that all Negroes have to be either radicals or Uncle Toms spoke out of either demagoguery or stupidity. The people who burned millions of dollars’ worth of property in Detroit were not representative of the majority of Negroes in that city; in fact, the Negroes were the ones who lost the most.

We are sick of hearing that civil-rights injustices triggered all this insane violence. Some cities that have tried hard to obtain justice for the Negro, that even felt they were approaching the day of justice, were hard hit by the murderous goings-on. One governor maintains that less than 5 per cent of the Negro population in a riot-rent city in his state brought off the violence there—and most of them had criminal records! Almost to a man the mayors of these tortured cities agree that the destroyers in the streets were scarcely interested in civil rights as such.

We are sick of observing civil officials who think they can control an inferno with a water gun. The law must operate, right in those mad streets. It must be unflinching, impartial, and authoritative. No man, black or white or in-between, is safe when the law is violated with impunity.

We are also sick of clergymen who manage somehow to exonerate the hoodlum rioters and put the blame for the calamity on countless innocent people who have always stood ready to assist the downtrodden. Even when we manage to love everybody, a burning city is still a fearful sight. God’s love never lessens his demand for order. That committed Christian, Paul, insisted that God had sanctified the sword of Caesar’s law and made its bearer His minister (Romans 13).

We are sick of those pulpits and religious publications that in seeking a solution to our problems advocate a compromise with evil rather than pronouncing judgment upon all wrong and presenting the Gospel of grace, which can give men a motivation for ethical living in the human situation.

We are sick of experts who offer nothing but pacification and prosperity to guerrilla terrorists as they cry louder and louder to our world, “Burn, baby, bum!”

In brief, we are sick of being so long sick while everybody keeps locking the door against the one Physician who can save us.

New Look at Abortion

A woman has a right not to bear a child, and a fetus has a right to be born. When these two rights are seen as being on a collision course, conflict is inevitable. Prestigious leaders representing religion and ethics, law, medicine, and the social sciences disputed, debated, and defended the world’s abortion practices during a three-day International Conference on Abortion held this month in Washington, D. C.

Although the conference, co-sponsored by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation and Harvard Divinity School, appeared heavily loaded with Roman Catholic delegates, many participants favored the desires of the mother over the rights of the fetus. But quite a few, sometimes emotionally, equated abortion with genocide. Some called it murder.

There was little consensus beyond such broad affirmations as “human life deserves special respect,” and “abortion for mere personal convenience is contrary to the principle of the sanctity of life.” Suggestions to curb the “copulation explosion” ranged from “abortion on demand”—suspension of all abortion laws, thus making pregnancy termination a matter of the mother’s private judgment—to perfection of male sterilization methods to prevent unwanted children.

Safe and easily accessible do-it-yourself abortion pills may soon revolutionize society’s approach to abortion, however, and make the legal aspects largely irrelevant. Paul Ramsey, professor of religion at Princeton University, told the gathering that the “M” pill, which Swedish doctors are perfecting, will enable women to make their own decisions about whether to carry or miscarry after conception.

“This is soon going to become a question having nothing to do with the penal code, a practice wholly in the personal or private realm which laws cannot reach,” the soft-spoken professor said in a press conference. In his opinion, the morality of abortion, not its legalization, is the key issue. The churches and synagogues, therefore, should be concerned chiefly with the moral issues of abortion—“not with proposed public policies that would use abortion law reform as an interim solution.”

At present, forty-five states and the District of Columbia approve abortion only when it is required to save a mother’s life. Louisiana forbids abortion for any reason. Colorado, North Carolina, and California recently revised their laws to allow abortion if the mother’s mental or physical health is severely threatened, if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest, or (in Colorado and North Carolina) if there is a chance that the child may be deformed. Liberalized abortion laws were defeated during the past year in Connecticut, Nevada, Michigan, Iowa, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Tennessee, Florida, and Maine. Some twenty other states are considering liberalizing their laws.

The only European countries where abortion is legal, virtually free, and readily available are behind the Iron Curtain. In Hungary, for the last fifteen years abortions have exceeded births. Many Roman Catholic countries are influenced by the position of the church, which officially states not only that any attempt to destroy life by abortion is a mortal sin but also that a doctor must save a child’s life in preference to its mother’s.

Dr. Herbert Richardson of the Harvard Divinity School, one of the conference conveners, summarized the ethicists’ closed-session discussions: Human life begins at conception, or at least no later than eight days after conception. Abortion should be performed—if at all—only in exceptional cases. Both theists and non-theists saw human life as qualitatively different from all other earthly life, and therefore worthy of special respect. And theists agreed among themselves that religious affirmations are relevant: God is creator of man and the author of life; man is created in the image of God; man is the steward of the gift of life and not its complete master.

Beyond this, opinion diverged. Some moralists deemed it morally possible to take the life of an unborn child under certain conditions as a “human response to God’s love and his neighbor.” Others held that the fetus has inviolable rights; no individual or society has the right to say which shall live and which shall die. A third group, apparently believing in God’s personal self-revelation, said God is “effectively present” to illumine the mind and strengthen the will when parents must make an agonizing moral decision about an abortion. The ethics spokesmen also avoided equating law and morality and declared, “Not every sin should be made a crime.”

But position papers, prepared for the two days of closed-door sessions, as well as the open, final-day meeting attended by about 1,500 persons, bristled with unanswered nitty-gritty questions, yielded few concrete answers. Several speakers quite frankly acknowledged that differences inherent in a pluralistic society may make the abortion question unresolvable.

Jesuit priest Robert Drinan, dean of the Boston College Law School, opposed the newly adopted easing of abortion laws in North Carolina, charging that the legislation was a ploy to hold down the number of minority persons and reduce the welfare rolls. Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, emphasized that Caucasians account for 97 per cent of the nation’s illegal abortions (variously estimated at 200,000 to 1.2 million a year) because the whites can afford them while the Negroes and Puerto Ricans can’t. And Dr. Christopher Tietze, known as the king of abortion statistics, called estimates of 10,000 to 20,000 American women dying annually from criminal abortions “unmitigated nonsense.” He said 500 is more realistic. And he suggested these would be substantially reduced if the United States would shelve its abortion laws altogether.

The conference, first of its kind, drew seventy-three delegates from Canada, the United States, and four overseas countries. Only six were women. A representative of the National Organization for Women, a group that advocates abortion as a civil right for all women, castigated the convention for being “stacked” against women and in favor of the “reactionary” Roman Catholic viewpoint.

Meanwhile, several women had their day outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the conference was held. They carried signs plastered with coat hangers and knitting needles and plumped for availability of legal medical abortions for all women.

Miss Patricia Maginnis, a do-it-yourself abortion teacher from San Francisco, held classes in makeshift quarters of the Washington hippie newspaper, the Washington Free Press. Her supply of printed instructions on self-induced abortion techniques and list of Canadian and Mexican “abortion specialists” quickly ran out when overflow crowds packed the shabby living room. Miss Maginnis, 39, said she has had three abortions, including two self-induced ones that landed her in the hospital.

Arthur Goldberg, U. S. representative to the United Nations, concluded the conference with a speech that advocated human engineering through genetics and chemistry. This, he said, could change man’s makeup and “purge him of his tendencies to deadly aggression, cruelty, false pride, and all the other age-old failings that humanity no longer can afford to indulge.”

But the smattering of evangelicals present could not help wondering whether the world’s social experts will try the only time-proven and God-given method of changing man: conversion through redemptive encounter with Jesus Christ.

If not, where will dramatic breakthroughs such as a once-a-month abortion pill and genetic tinkering lead except to the nightmare of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World?

RUSSELL CHANDLER

War And Peace

A team of relay runners is carrying a torch for pacifism on a cross-country exhibition scheduled to arrive in Washington, D. C., October 21. The “Hiroshima Peace Torch,” ignited last month in Japan, was blessed by Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers on the steps of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral before the eastward sprint. Religious and anti-war groups plan another ceremony when the missile-shaped torch, which carries fragments of U. S. antipersonnel bombs in its base, reaches the capital.

The ketch “Phoenix” was headed toward North Viet Nam this month with a cargo of medical supplies, according to a spokesman for a Quaker group in Philadelphia that is sponsoring the trip. This was the second such voyage in defiance of U. S. law. Several American young people were aboard.

The Free Pacific Association says a poll taken among Roman Catholic priests in the United States shows 87 per cent of them favoring a firm policy by the government to win the war in Viet Nam. Seven thousand were said to have responded to a questionnaire distributed by Catholic Polls, Inc.

Personalia

Industrialist J. Irwin Miller is introduced as a prospect for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination by Esquire magazine. A cover photo and long article plumping Miller, former president of the National Council of Churches, appear in the October issue. The article notes that Miller, a layman of the Disciples of Christ, once pulled out of a big family-financed church to start a new one because the minister “just did not believe in the ecumenical movement.”

Dr. Paul F. Geren was named president of Stetson University, a Southern Baptist institution in De Land, Florida. Geren has held a number of diplomatic posts for the U. S. government and for a time served as deputy director of the Peace Corps. He holds a doctor’s degree in economics from Harvard.

Father James F. Drane, Roman Catholic priest who was suspended because of a newspaper article on birth control, was granted a one-year research fellowship by Yale University. The 37-year-old clergyman from Little Rock, Arkansas, said he would be doing research in “ethics and politics.”

Dr. Bengt Runo Hoffman, formerly associate professor of religion at Concordia College, assumes this month the newly created post of professor of ethics and ecumenics at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (United Presbyterian) has hired two teachers from the Hartford Seminary Foundation: Ford Lewis Battles, a church historian, and Robert S. Paul, onetime associate director of the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Institute.

Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, formerly of B’nai B’rith, will teach religion and sociology at Marymount Manhattan College.

N. A. Nissiotis was named an associate general secretary of the World Council of Churches. He is the first Orthodox priest to gain this high rank.

The Rev. John R. Mumaw of Harrisonburg, Virginia, was elected moderator of the Mennonite Church at the denomination’s biennial General Conference in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. The Rev. John M. Drescher of Scottdale, Pennsylvania, editor of the Gospel Herald, was chosen moderator-elect.

Cambridge-trained Michael C. Griffiths will succeed J. Oswald Sanders as general director of Overseas Missionary Fellowship when Sanders retires in 1969. Griffiths has been superintendent of OMF work in Japan.

Deaths

ARMIN G. WENG, 69, for fifteen years the president of Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary; in Rockford, Illinois.

THOMAS B. LUGG, 77, retired general treaturer of The Methodist Church and general secretary of its Council on World Service and Finance; in Evanston, Illinois.

F. NELSON BLOUNT, 49, founder of Steamtown U. S. A. and a noted evangelical layman; in an aircraft accident near Dublin, New Hampshire.

Miscellany

French President Charles DeGaulle cagily avoided seeing either of the two Roman Catholic cardinals in Poland during his visit there this month. He did meet briefly with Bishop Edmund Nowicki of Gdansk (Danzig) and took Communion at the local cathedral. A young man tried to present a statue of the Virgin Mary to DeGaulle but was taken away by police.

Concern rose over the health of Pope Paul VI as final preparations were made for the opening session of the Synod of Bishops in Rome this week. At midmonth, Vatican sources said a prostate operation was virtually certain after the synod closed next month.

The Orinoco River Mission of Venezuela, an affiliate of the International Foreign Mission Association, reports the discovery of Indian villages believed never to have had contact with the outside world. Missionary Charles Olvey said an aerial survey revealed that the natives did not appear even to have the ax or machete to clear areas for their homes.

The Life Line Center of the Central Methodist Mission in Sydney, Australia, was badly damaged by the second fire there in four years.

Sunday-morning church programs have become ritualized and predictable, say spokesmen for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute. So, under a grant from the Lilly Foundation, “experiential” worship services will be developed.

A report to the World Council of Churches said its basic annual budget for welfare is $13.3 million and estimated that the world has ten million refugees. Among projects is Action for Food Production, an effort to improve agriculture in India in which the WCC cooperates with Roman Catholics and secular agencies.

The number of baptized Lutherans in the world totals 74,419,334, a slight drop from last year, the Lutheran World Federation reports. East Germany had a significant loss, while Tanzania had the largest increase.

Clergy Eye Wealth as a Weapon

An increasing number of influential churchmen seem determined to put the denominational investment dollar to work in the social arena.

For years now, liberal clergy have set their sights on political power as the dynamism whereby the Church influences society. Now they apparently are convinced that money talks the loudest. This is not to say that the main leadership of the big denominations is sold yet on the use of wealth as a weapon. Many doubt the propriety and wisdom of it—and the criticism comes from both left and right.

But here and there church agencies are experimenting with the impact they can achieve by throwing around their collective financial weight. And there’s plenty of it to throw around: church-owned real estate in the United States alone has been estimated as worth more than $80 billion. That’s ten times the value of all iron and steel plants in America.

The American Association of Fund Raising Counsel estimates that religious institutions in this country are now taking in about $6.5 billion by voluntary offerings. That figure puts the Church into the category of the nation’s leading “industries” (see chart).

Despite churchmen’s vociferous expression of concern for people everywhere, it is doubtful that much more than 1 per cent of total church income finds its way into foreign economies. All available figures indicate that the vast portion of the money is pumped back into affluent American society.

Of growing significance is the amount of money being spent on bureaucracy, entertainment, meetings, and travel. Most church meetings are held in fancy and expensive big-city and resort hotels—the National Council of Churches’ General Assembly last December and this year’s Southern Baptist Convention were both held in high-rate Miami Beach hotels.

Wealth as a weapon has traditionally been an internal fact of life for the churches. Entrenched ecclesiastical machines commonly manipulate the course of supposedly democratic policy-making with administrative monies, pension and other securities plans, and so on.

Recently, however, there have been signs of the use of church investment as an external force. The Vatican shadow over the fish industry has been obvious for centuries, though relaxation of meatless Friday rules has not had as serious an effect as first expected. More recently some churches have threatened to withdraw multi-million-dollar deposits in banks that do business with South Africa in an effort to get those banks to exert pressure against that country’s apartheid policies. Church stockholders have applied leverage upon Kodak management in behalf of equal-opportunity employment practices. The Roman Catholic archdiocese in St. Louis has rated firms with which it does business for its parishes according to the firms’ Negro hiring practices. A small church in New York got wide attention when it got rid of its holdings in a napalm-producing company in protest of military use of that killer chemical in Viet Nam.

More such adventures can be expected, though resistance within the churches is building up. From the left one hears the avant-garde complaining that much more money ought to be going to the poor and downtrodden, that standing investment in stocks and real estate such as big new churches is a waste of opportunity and forfeits mission.* From the right one hears that the churches have no mandate to exert financial pressure for specific social goals over which the constituencies themselves disagree, particularly since the funds often were given for spiritual objectives. There is also the argument that in the United States the church that takes on a company in a financial battle is in a sense fighting itself—since the leaders of industry today are largely members of mainline denominations.

A big question revolves around how much money the churches have to fight with. Annual-income figures are fairly firm, but the value of stock holdings is elusive. Robert J. Regan, reporting for United Press International, said recently that some stockbrokers tried two years ago to survey church securities holdings and gave up. The Wall Street Journal in May calculated the market value of stock investments of the United Church of Christ at $175 million. The London Economist has estimated the Vatican securities portfolio as being worth about $5.6 billion, and in Regan’s report it was estimated that the holdings of U. S. dioceses and orders totaled about half that.

Regan quoted a source as guessing on the overall wealth of U. S. religious institutions this way:

“If you insist on a ballpark figure, counting real property, securities, and other investments of all U. S. religious bodies—I’d plump for $100 billion.”

Churches Facing Property Tax?

Churches, hospitals, private schools, and charitable agencies would be required to pay property taxes under a revolutionary plan drawn up by a government-appointed committee in Ontario.

“We find little to justify burdening all property owners with the cost of relief given to places of worship in recognition of the indirect benefits” they give society generally, the committee said.

The proposal, five years in the making, is the most serious attempt anywhere to tax church real estate, though spokesmen for organized labor reportedly have advocated a similar plan in Pennsylvania. Church tax exemption has been traditional even in countries where church-state separation is maintained and where governments are hostile to religion. Throughout religious history the trend has been the other way: churches have generally been recipients of government funds. In many countries where there is a state church, the citizenry is still taxed to pay for church upkeep and clergy salaries.

Religious leaders in Ontario have, understandably, been generally critical of the five-man committee’s tax plan. At present, all churches and religious-education centers, but not manses and rectories, are tax-exempt.

The co-called Smith report, named after committee chairman Lancelot Smith, suggested a procedure to soften the shock to churches. It recommended assessing church properties at 5 per cent of actual value in the first year of taxation and rising 5 per cent a year for seven years to 35 per cent. The report advocated a review of church taxes at that point and said that eventually they should perhaps be leveled off at “one-half the normal rate” because the indirect benefits that flow to society from such places of worship “justify some measure of relief from local taxation.”

Ontario Premier John Robarts has already said that he can’t see why churches and other places of worship should be exempt from property taxation. He declared last April that because any removal of such restrictions would be an unpopular move, the provincial government (rather than the municipalities) would have to handle it.

A nationwide Royal Commission on Taxation recommended earlier this year that religious organizations should retain their tax-exempt status but should be taxed on their business income and some of their investment income.

Many churchmen have voiced concern for the future prosperity of the churches, particularly those heavily in debt, if a property tax is initiated. The argument against taxation of churches has also been based heavily on the thesis that the power to tax is the power to destroy. Those who counter such a line of reasoning say that if things get so bad that the government wants to destroy churches it can do so in many ways apart from taxes.

In Washington, Americans United for Separation of Church and State has been urging the Internal Revenue Service to impose income taxes on churches to the extent that they are engaged in unrelated business.

The Rev. C. Stanley Lowell, associate director, told an IRS hearing this past summer that “a church which engages in the manufacture of liquor or in the operation of gambling games should have its income from such enterprises taxed.”

In New York, the church-state scene lies under the pall of a proposed new constitution that allows public aid to churches. But it’s not yet law. Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz ruled unconstitutional a grant of $100,000 in state funds to Fordham University, a Jesuit institution, to support a professorship for communications theorist Marshall McLuhan. The grant was part of a state program to attract noted scholars. McLuhan, a Roman Catholic, had already moved his family from Toronto to New York, and Fordham officials had assured him that they would pay if the state reneged.

‘Fairness Doctrine’ Test

The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked—for the first time—to decide whether a broadcaster may be compelled to grant free time to persons attacked over his station. The test case was brought by the Red Lion, Pennsylvania, Broadcasting Company in connection with a “Christian Crusade” broadcast in which the Rev. Billy James Hargis of Tulsa, Oklahoma, criticized Fred Cook of New Jersey, a writer for the Nation magazine. The Federal Communications Commission, in accordance with its “fairness doctrine,” ordered the station to give Cook time to reply.

Ford Grants

The Ford Foundation is giving more than one million dollars to organizations that are either religiously sponsored or religiously initiated. The largest grant, $578,000, goes to the Southern Consumers’ Education Foundation to help develop cooperatives among low-income groups. A $160,000 award goes to the National Council of Churches for its training and self-help housing program for dispossessed farm workers.

Trial Marriage

Local congregations of two merging denominations apparently will be given a year to see whether they like the union.

A joint merger committee of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. and the Reformed Church in America suggests that all congregations of both be brought into the new church for one year. During the second year a congregation would be allowed to withdraw, with its property. Thereafter, none would be permitted to withdraw. The committee also backed previous proposals for a new confession “without delay” once the Presbyterian Reformed Church in America is organized.

Rhodesia Bars Missionary

The Rhodesian Methodist Conference says the white minority regime of Ian Smith has barred another American missionary from readmittance. He is the Rev. Hunter B. Griffin, currently on furlough.

The Methodist mission board said eighty-one Methodist missionaries are assigned to Southern Rhodesia. No reason was given for the action against Griffin.

Rhodesia’s Methodists are officially opposed to the government’s racial policies.

Sudan Thaw

The Sudan has ended its eleven-year campain against Roman Catholic priests and missionaries, Religious News Service reports. Catholics have been critical of the “Moslem-dominated” Sudan regime for its confiscation of religious schools, expulsion of missionaries, and strict supervision of Christian activities.

The government last year expelled a large group of missionaries from the largely pagan South on charges that they supported a terrorist movement there. But more recently new Prime Minister Sayed Sadiq al-Mahdi wrote Pope Paul VI that Christians and Muslims have a “common interest” in attacking paganism.

Milwaukee

A limping, blister-ridden Roman Catholic priest in the forefront of a militant open-housing marchathon in racially tense Milwaukee vowed: “There’ll be no cooling whatsoever.” Abusive “white power” countermarchers, continued barrages of bricks and bottles, volleys of tear gas, and the specter of a major race riot lent substance to the statement.

The militant, civil-rights firebrand is the Rev. James Groppi, assistant pastor of St. Boniface Church, an integrated parish of 800 in the inner core of the Negro ghetto. Father Groppi, 36, a Milwaukee native of Italian extraction, was arrested four times in one week but continued to lead the protests.

The priest was joined by Negro comedian Dick Gregory in an effort to wring an open-housing ordinance from the city’s common council. Mayor Henry Maier—frequent target of the protesters—called Groppi a “white Uncle Tom” and said that open housing would only accelerate the flight of the middle class to the suburbs, leaving Negroes and impoverished whites in the city itself.

Although some of the daily marches and sit-ins were peaceful, with horseplay and congeniality between crowds in the largely Polish south side and Groppi’s marchers—sometimes numbering in the thousands—the dominant mood was hatred, cunning, and anger. After a “mothers’ march,” 100 militants converged on City Hall and wreaked damage estimated at $3,000 on the mayor’s office. The destructive rampage, allegedly directed by Father Groppi, came on the heels of an impassioned plea by his superior, Milwaukee Archbishop William Cousins, to end future violence “at all costs.” The prelate resisted pressure from screaming white mobs to dismiss Father Groppi, but appeased them by referring the demand to his senate of priests.

Father Groppi, who began slum work while at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee, is adviser to the city’s Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Another member of the council admitted that Father Groppi has been criticized by the archbishop for “imprudent tactics” but staunchly maintained that the priest has the complete support of the Negro community.

Both the Catholic Interracial Council of Milwaukee and the National Council of Churches have supported the group’s fight for open housing. The Catholic Herald Citizen condemned the “hate-in” enacted on the south side by white mobs. The paper sadly observed that many presumably were Catholics—“human and Christian dropouts … who behaved as if they had fled their humanity.”

Buoyed by promises of national NAACP support, Father Groppi invited black youth to join demonstrations as part of their education instead of attending school. “We’re marching to City Hall and that’s more important than going to third-rate school,” he declared in a rally. School officials noted first-day attendance dipped 2,350 from the previous year.

Gregory, who calls the priest “Ajax, the White Knight,” took over for the minister when he temporarily was sidelined with blisters and a touch of the flu. Having reportedly canceled three months of engagements, the comedian asserted he would stay “as long as they need me.… We’re not just walking for Milwaukee. We’re trying to change the hunkie’s way of life he’s been getting used to for 400 years.”

Prayer meetings, chanting, and singing fortified the marchers’ courage as they sallied into “enemy” territory. Groppi’s group resounded with “Nobody’s Gonna Turn Me Around,” and “I’m Gonna Testify to What the White Man’s Done to Me,” while 500 south-side Polish youths taunted in sing-song polka rhythm: “Ee yi, ee yi, ee yi oh/Father Groppi’s gotta go!”

The peripatetic priest contends that the church’s stake in the movement is nothing less than its own survival. An aide said in an interview: “If the church does not act and act now, it will forfeit its divine mission … to correct social abuses.”