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The Legal Aspects of the Andover Creed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Richard D. Pierce
Richard D. Pierce
Affiliation:
Andover Newton Theological SchoolNewton Centre, Mass.
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Extract

On April 10, 1931, the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting under the doctrine of cypres, decreed that henceforth Andover Theological Seminary should forever be relieved of subscription to1 its creed and that “hereafter no professor should ever be called into question because of inconsistency with the creedal requirements of its Constitution and Statutes.”

Type
Research Article
Information
Church History , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1946 , pp. 28 - 47
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1946

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30 Vide. A Review of the Evidence of Prejudice, etc. on the Face of the Opinion, Submitted to the Visitors of Andover Seminary, in, 1887, by Dr. Eiistis.

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44 Supreme Judicial Court, Equity Case, No. 54469, Final Decree.