Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt roused Britain's churches to life and protest as no British government's action since the Boer War. Most of the Protestant clergy -both Established church and nonconformist-took their cue from the Archbishop of Canterbury ("Christian opinion ... is terribly uneasy and unhappy"). Said the Anglican Bishop of Chichester: "Britain has stood alone in the world before because she upheld moral principles at great cost to herself. But she stands almost alone today because she has acted in direct violation of the moral and legal principles to which she pledged herself...
...Moslem conquest, which took Islam to the Pyrenees and beyond them into France. The Cross had emerged triumphant from the blood bath of Roman persecution. Why had it fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...
...Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is a great Protestant allegory. It is also an allegory of Everyman, and many men have tried to adapt it and make it their own. Antinomians tried to make it even more Calvinist than Bunyan himself. Tractarian scribes, trying to bring the Anglican Church closer to Roman Catholic practices, rewrote it to take out the Reformation sting. A Roman Catholic version appeared with the head of the Virgin Mary (the worship of whom was heresy to Baptist Bunyan) on the title page. Now Dr. Harding, a leader of the Jung school...
...considered it beside the point, Toynbee gave history not only a pattern but a spiritual end. He reached the conclusion that man's real history is religieus history and that civilizations are really nothing but steppingstones in man's progress to deeper spiritual insight. Yet Toynbee, an Anglican in childhood, always showed himself so ready to range various prophets, gods and philosophers alongside Christ that the question inevitably arose just what kind of Christian he was. That question is more fully answered in his new book, An Historian's Approach to Religion (Oxford; $5), in which...
What, wonders Anglican Mrs. Mirylees, should she do with the Nanteos Cup? She is sure that it should stay in Wales and should be accessible to the veneration of pious Christians. But some Church of England clerics regard veneration of relics as rank superstition. Perhaps the cup would be better off, she feels, in Roman Catholic hands-for instance, the Trappist monks on Caldey Island off the coast of South Wales...