1967

The year 1967 AD.

Events

 * The Tennessee legislature repeals the Butler Act), which had prohibited the teaching of evolution.
 * First edition of the New Catholic Encyclopedia
 * The Presbyterian Church (USA) abrogates Chapter XXV, article 6, of the Westminster Confession, which refers to the Pope as the Antichrist. The article remains officially in force in other Presbyterian denominations.
 * Canadian schoolmaster Walter van der Kamp circulates a geocentric paper entitled “The Heart of the Matter.”
 * Pope Paul VI releases the encylicals Populorum Progressio and Sacerdotalis Caelibatus

Births and Deaths

 * Death of Donald Gee, pentacostal theologian