Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Discuss closer cooperation between the Episcopal and Anglican Churches, especially in missionary work (the Archbishop is a vice chairman of the International Missionary Council) and plans for the postwar world...
...most things, but the hardest of all to read is the handwriting on the wall-which becomes legible to everybody only when the walls begin to totter and collapse. In mid-January, 1941, under the impact of Nazi bombs, the walls were falling on all sides of the 221 Anglican prelates, priests and laymen who under the sponsorship of Dr. Temple, then Archbishop of York, huddled in greatcoats in the unheated rooms of Malvern College. It was not only British walls that were crashing. Under the onset of the Nazi conquests the walls of the whole known world were tottering...
Britain's Anglican and Free Church leaders offered a moderate, humane program for a Christian postwar Europe within a framework of "world security." Warned the Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple, Scotland's Presbyterian Moderator John Baillie, Free Church Moderator Roy D. Whitehorn: "We can not assume that defeat of tyranny will in itself suffice to establish peace, well-being and liberty...
Coventry Cathedral, almost obliterated by German bombs, will rise again. But the new fane, as described last week by Coventry's Bishop Neville Vincent Gorton, will be an innovation among Anglican Cathedrals. The striking change will not be in architecture (it will be modernized Gothic, designed by famed Roman Catholic architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott), but in the cathedral's interdenominational character...
...Coventry will have a feature unique in Anglican Cathedrals: the high altar will not be set against the east end, but will stand in the center of the building.* Said Bishop Gorton: "The altar does not belong to the clergy only. It belongs also to the people. Therefore, set it up in the middle of the church and let the people gather around...