id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt cz30pr79792 Alexander Wimberly Present Witness: The Confession of 1967 and the Travails of Presbyterians in American Society 1904 .txt text/plain 354 12 31 In particular, studying the Confession of 1967 shows why the denomination's response to James Forman's Black Manifesto and its support of Angela Davis's legal defense fund crystallized divisions within and between Presbyterian denominations. In so doing, denominational leaders risked splitting their church along lines that divided Americans more generally, rather than uniting it around a shared belief and common purpose. cache/cz30pr79792.txt txt/cz30pr79792.txt