United Ministry to Offer Seminars; Pusey Asks Effort to Revive Church

President Pusey told Harvard Divinity students yesterday that they have an exceptional chance to revive Christian belief because men are becoming more and more disenchanted with the achievements of a godless culture.

Speaking in Memorial Church at the Convocation of the Divinity School which opened the School's 150th year, Pusey said that atheistic philosophy was losing its power to enthrall.

"It would be pleasant to believe that the Church is stirring anew and that the Divinity School can continue to participate joyously and effectively in its work," he said. But he had only qualified confidence in the Church's ability to lead a revival.

The danger is that the Church will become bogged down in prevailing cynicism and indifference, Pusey said, and be "victimized by a new humanism, run off in pursuit of another manmade delusion," instead of striving to return men to Christian belief.

Pusey said that the great majority of men and women still want to believe in something worthy of belief, but that our intellectual climate is be- coming one of "self-destructive unbelief." He suggested that men could justifiably reject past formulations of faith, but he feared the spread of the belief that the Christian faith has no relevance to modern culture.

Nevertheless, Pusey's picture of the modern Church was far from hopeless. He was encouraged particularly by the decline of denominationalism and noted that "Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic are experiencing a fresh sense of mutual need; and members of all these groups are developing a wholly new and constructive attitude toward the Jewish faith."

The University appeared to be incorporating this new attitude into its religious policy when it allowed Jewish services to be held in Memorial Church for the first time last Friday and Saturday.

As for the Divinity School itself, Pusey praised its "glorious record of achievement" and noted in reviewing the School's history that the traditional problem of whether the School should concentrate on scholarship or professional preparation has been resolved so that both are now adequately provided