Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reformation leaders rejected the traditional opinion that confirmation was a Christ-founded sacrament of the same importance as baptism or Holy Communion; but many churches have preserved the ritual as a way of sanctifying religious instruction and symbolizing full entry into the church. In the Anglican Communion, where the customary age for receiving confirmation is twelve, the bishop first questions the youth on his knowledge of the faith, then lays on hands as a sign of the blessing of the Holy Spirit. Among Lutherans, the usual age is 13 or 14, and as with Episcopalians, confirmation is a requirement...
...survey was carried out by the Rev. Charles R. Feilding, professor of moral theology at Toronto's Anglican Trinity College, and was based on a sampling of the association's 140 member-schools. Entitled Education for Ministry, Feilding's work concludes that seminary teaching tends to be evangelically uninspiring and professionally im- practical. Bible study is more often than not "bibliolatry." Although much is said about making the church relevant, writes Feilding, "the greater part of the whole theological enterprise seems instead to be off on a vast archaeological dig, preoccupied with the long...
Although MacLeod will be the only Presbyterian minister in an assembly that contains 26 Anglican bishops, he does not intend to be a spokesman for his faith, since, as he puts it, "I have not been famous for always saying the same thing as the Church of Scotland." Indeed not-and if anything characterizes Sir George's career, it is contrariness. As a captain of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during World War I, he won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre for gallantry-but later became one of Britain's most vociferous pacifists...
...which fell into ruin after the Reformation. The rest of the year, members of the community work in Britain's industrial slum parishes, preaching lona's ideals: the Christian duty of political and social involvement, and the necessity of sacramental worship. Thoroughly ecumenical, the lona Community includes Anglicans, Congregationalists, Baptists and Methodists as well as Presbyterians, and many of MacLeod's ideas have been adopted by such ecclesiastical experimenters as the Anglican worker-priests of England and the Protestant brotherhood of Taizé in France (TIME, Sept...
...contemporary theologians, God is a dimming concept. Assorted Anglican bishops pull him back from "out there" in space and redefine God as ground of being. Some Protestant "Christian atheists" stand ready to write his obituary. Catholics and Protestants alike admit that the traditional proofs for God's existence can be satisfactorily disproved, and earnestly strive for new ways to define and explain his presence...