"Christianity Today"

When the conservative Presbyterian dissidents left Princeton Theological Seminary to found Westminster Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (TIME. Aug. 5, et seg.), they surrendered the forum of The Presbyterian, denominational publication. Last week the dissidents issued the first number of their own newsorgan. Christianity Today. Editor is Dr. Samuel G. Craig, resigned editor of The Presbyterian. The editorial viewpoint of Christianity Today is somewhat startling to militant Protestants because it presages cooperation with the Roman Catholic Church. As phrased by Dr. Craig it is "that of the Calvinistic rather than that of the Lutheran or Arminian Churches" but "there will be the full recognition of the fact that what they hold in common with other evangelical Christians is much more important than what they hold in distinction from them. In fact while they will be as unflinchingly opposed to Rome as were their fathers they will not be blind to the fact that as the lines are drawn today--theism over against atheism; Christ the God man over against the man Jesus; the cross as a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice over against the cross as a symbol of self sacrifice; salvation as a divine gift over against salvation as a human achievement; the Bible as the revealed Word of God over against the Bible as a purely human product; the moral law as a divinely imposed rule of life over against the moral law as an everchanging resultant of human insight and experience--Rome, at the points at which the battle rages most fiercely today, is our ally rather than our opponent."

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