Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consciousness about Oxford's identification with past movements, i.e., the Oxford Movement (Keble, Newman, Pusey), the Frank Buchman "Oxford Group"-Moral Re-Armament, the pacifism of the '30s. Whatever the reticence, churchgoing is at a new high level. "It's quite a relief," said one staunch Anglican last week. "Let them have all the bun fights they want. At least, nobody any longer believes that religion is the haven of anti-intellectual obscurantism...
...England's state church are thus legally entitled-like other ministers-to remarry divorced people. But if they do, they face a growing current of conservatism within the Church of England. The draft of a canon flatly prohibiting remarriage of the divorced has long been creeping through official Anglican channels on its way to becoming church law, and last month it reached the Convocation of Canterbury. With Parliament the ultimate stop, the Archbishop of Canterbury felt it prudent to raise a warning hand...
...Parish. The idea of the Flying Angels took wing one bright summer's day in 1835 when a young vacationing Anglican minister named John Ashley stood with his son looking out over the Bristol Channel. The little boy pointed to two lonely islands, Steep Holme and Flat Holme, lying far out in the haze. "How can those people go to church, Father?" he asked...
...William.H. Baar of the University of Chicago, Episcopal priest-teacher, onetime Lutheran: "The fact that the Anglican Church is right in the middle of the whole Christian tradition is the key to the Anglican way of looking at things . . . With Protestant, Roman and Orthodox Churchmen alike, Anglicans share the full joy and the full sorrow at the picture of the Church as she has made her way through history. But we do not depend upon any age for our inspiration; we do not believe that at any time the essential message of the Church was ever totally obscured...
...Compton, Calif., Episcopal priest, onetime Methodist : "To my mind our Communion most fully expresses the marks of being the 'extension of the Incarnation . . .' None of [my books] need be relegated to a hidden shelf, just because I am an Episcopalian. There is no Index! For in the Anglican Communion there is most fully expressed the basic Christian belief that God reveals Himself, not in esoteric abstract speculation, but in history, 'in events through which we event,' in a St. Francis, in a St. John Hus, in the Celtic Saints...