Teresa and Ignatius and Pius and Robert are reformers because they saw the glory latent in a broken Church and sought to draw it out. Luther and Calvin and Cranmer were dissenters because they tried to impose their ideas on the Church–and lost her in the battle. If you’re trying to tu...
Post-emancipation, nearly all black colleges had been church-related, an environment in which NCC staffer McClellan claimed students "could not help but imbibe favorable ideas regarding the ministry" (NCC 1959, p. 6). Preston N. Williams, an assistant chaplain at Pennsylvania State University, ...