The first Episcopalian to see his name in national headlines as a modernist was the Rector of St. Bartholomew's, Manhattanthe venerable Leighton Parks. Millions read his name and hundreds wrote him letters. Some of the letters were "brutally abusive." Hellfire, they said, was not too dreadful for a man who would disturb the peace of the Church.
To explain the frame of mind in which these bitter letters were written, Dr. Parks went back to an old story, to an incident in the death of Jan Huss of Prague, who lead the Bohemian...
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