Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move in this direction. Said he in his Sunday sermon: "The publicity attendant on the departure of a priest of this church for Rome has highlighted the question of authority in the Episcopal Church. The statement of this former clergyman . . . illustrates the words of the bishops of the Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference [in 1948]: 'A perplexed generation is in search of an authority to which to give its allegiance and easily submits to the appeal of authoritarian systems, whether religious or secular...
...After My Death." Hopkins' background was solidly High Anglican, and by the time he was an undergraduate at Oxford, he was so caught up in religious fervor and asceticism as to note in his diary: "For Lent. No pudding on Sunday...
...Oxford Union into resolving (in 1933) that they would under no circumstances fight for king and country, later soared to great popular heights as the life and soul of the BBC's quiz panel, "Brains Trust." In his later years, he veered back to religion (the Anglican Church), confessed that "Christianity works better than any thing else I have heard...
Although the Anglican Church is a tolerant communion, such proposals, coming from a consecrated bishop, were a little hard for orthodox churchmen to take. In 1947, after Bishop Barnes had published The Rise of Christianity, a book expounding his unorthodox views, the archbishop of Canterbury declared: "If his views were mine, I should not feel that I could still hold episcopal office in the church...
...Truro to remove Densham. Under the Church of England's constitution; however, the bishop was powerless, for the rector had committed no crime, and he was conducting the services acceptably. Stuck with their rector, the flock retaliated by refusing to go to church. Some went to other Anglican churches; others drifted off to Warleggon's Methodist chapel. After 1935, not a soul among Warleggon's parishioners entered the church for Sunday services again...