Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordained Anglican priest and a professor of comparative religion at the University of Manchester, Brandon is not the first to make this case, but he has marshaled the best arguments for it. In Jesus and the Zealots (Scnbners; $7.95) and The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth (Stein & Day; $6.95), Brandon pictures Jesus as a politically aware activist vigorously working against the Palestinian "Establishment"-the Roman occupying forces and Jerusalem's collaborationist Jewish aristocracy. As a champion of the poor, says Brandon, Jesus went so far as to lead an abortive raid on the Temple treasury to dispossess its money...
...series of inexplicable experiences. Clocks in his apartment kept stopping at 8:19-the hour when James Jr. had died in New York. Books and cards kept toppling over to an angle that matched that of the hands of a clock at 8:19. Eventually, Pike consulted an Anglican cleric who was interested in psychic phenomena; he suggested that Jim was trying to get in touch with Pike from the beyond and recommended the bishop to a "sensitive" named Ena Twigg. It was in her London sitting room, Pike says, that he first got in touch with...
...group ceremony. Four of the new deacons have wives, and thus became Latin America's first married clergy under a 1967 authorization by Paul reviving the ancient institution of the diaconate. In a touch of ecumenism, three Protestants, including a Bavarian Lutheran bishop, and a local Anglican priest took part in a Mass. The Lutheran preached the sermon, and the Anglican publicly criticized the lack of religious freedom in Colombia before the Catholic audience...
Since 1867, the bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion have gathered at London's Lambeth Palace approximately every ten years to consider the state of their church. This year, some delegates doubted whether the Tenth Lambeth Conference, which convened last month, was worth holding at all. By last week, though, several notes of relevance had been introduced into the discussion, and there was hope that the conference might produce some lasting results for Anglicanism...
...disapproving. In Geneva, Secretary Eugene Carson Blake of the World Council of Churches declared: "It is disappointing that the initiative taken in 1963 to re-examine the traditional Roman Catholic position on family planning seems to have ended up approximately where it began." At the worldwide Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, the Rt. Rev. I. R. Moorman of Ripon, a Church of England observer at Vatican II, called the encyclical "ecumenically, a disaster for Christianity...