Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guidance" Only. So, with churchly pomp & ceremony, began the eighth Lambeth Conference. After the opening service at Canterbury last week, the conference moved to London. There, for the next five weeks, the bishops of the Anglican Communion will meet in the historic library of Lambeth Palace. The prelates should have much to say to each other; thanks to World War II, it has been 18 years, instead of the usual ten,* since they last met. But it will be some time before the 20,000,000 communicants and the public at large know what they have said. All sessions...
...program for this summer's conference is divided into five main subjects: the Christian Doctrine of Man, the Church and the Modern World, the Unity of the Church, the Anglican Churches, and Questions Referred to the Conference. Under these headings, the assembled prelates will discuss such varied subjects as the new Church of South India (TIME, Oct. 13), the merger proposals between the U.S. Episcopalians and Presbyterians, liberalization of the divorce canon, the doctrinal bases of Anglican unity with other churches...
...another occasion . . . Cole went to the British Museum and somehow procured some ancient ecclesiastical vestments. Dressed in these robes, and taking the title of the Anglican Bishop of Madras, Cole appeared at one of the better known English public schools, and confirmed several of the schoolboys in the chapel. Why his archaic vestments did not give him away at the time, I cannot imagine, but perhaps as Bishop of faraway Madras, the age and condition of his robes did not matter...
...Anglican Newman, a sensitive, handsome man gliding through Oxford's quadrangles in his long-tailed coat, became a powerful influence among the undergraduates. They packed the ancient church of St. Mary's to hear his sermons. "As he began to preach, his voice was faint but musical, its pitch rising, though always controlled, till 'the very tones . . . seemed as if they were something more than his own,' as if a power beyond him spoke through...
Prospective missionaries to the Orient will find some sobering reading in the words of Anglican Bishop Stephen Charles Neill, now traveling in Asia on behalf of the World Council of Churches. To the British weekly Record Bishop Neill wrote...