Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into sin," that the enemy's days be few and his job be given to someone else, that when he is dead his orphans be beggars, that no one should pity him, and that God always remember against him the sins of his parents. Even more "devilish," says Anglican Lewis, is the verse in the beautiful 137th Psalm in which "a blessing is pronounced on anyone who will snatch up a Babylonian baby and beat its brains out against the pavement...
...Anglicans and Episcopalians, like most Protestant groups, do not share the Roman Catholic disapproval of birth control; contraception, they have long held, is permissible for both family planning and reasons of health. But the Anglican Communion's five-week Lambeth conference of bishops just concluded went a liberal's step further: it positively recommended contraception as a valuable liberating force in the family and in the enjoyment of sexual relations...
...woman, it found no legal way to keep Mistress Matimba out of the country. But since the Land Apportionment Act of 1941 forbids whites and blacks to live in the same community, the question arose: Just where could the Matimbas go? At first, Patrick, the son of a Negro Anglican priest, helpfully offered to become his own wife's servant -the only kind of Negro permitted to live among Europeans. Then Saint Faith's Anglican Mission, in the white tobacco-growing settlement of Rusape, where his father had worked, gave Patrick a job as a ?12-a-month...
...inexorable" process: reunion with the Anglican Church (2,922,000 members), from which the Methodists originally broke away (to preach the Gospel to the masses with hotter fervor than the Anglicans considered seemly). Two-year peace talks had bogged down on the issue of apostolic succession, the Anglican doctrine which declares that the church's ministry is derived from the apostles by a continuing mystic transmission of spiritual authority through the episcopacy. "The doctrine of historic episcopacy is contrary to the plain warrant of Scripture," cried Theologian C. Kingsley Barrett of Durham University. "We must...
Furthermore, had the Archbishop actually said that God might "will" man's end in nuclear war? No, declared Toronto's Canon H. R. Hunt, general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada. The Archbishop had simply noted that God's providence leaves man's fate up to man. Said Canon Hunt: "Perversity in human conduct and wanton disobedience of divine law result inevitably in the destruction and death of sinful man. Whatsoever man sows, that shall he reap...