Word: anglican
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...break became final when four new bishops were consecrated in Denver's Augustana Lutheran Church on Jan. 28 to lead the self-styled "Anglican Church of North America." Staying in the Episcopal Church, said one of the four later, "is like giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a corpse." The fiery consecration sermon by the Rev. George Rutler of Rosemont, Pa., compared the new bishops to Moses for leading their people out of the Episcopal Egypt. After a service of nearly three hours, the solemn congregation burst into applause as the resplendently robed and mitered clergymen were declared...
That left Anglican Bishop Mark Pae of Taejon, South Korea, a foe of women priests, who says that he agreed to consecrate the new bishops last November without realizing that a full-fledged schism was involved. On Jan. 16 he got an urgent telegram from F. Donald Coggan, the Archbishop of Canterbury. When he phoned Coggan, says Pae, the Archbishop "did not put any pressure on me" but "explained the gravity of the matter." The next day one of the bishops-to-be, C. Dale Doren of Pittsburgh, arrived in Taejon and spent a fruitless week trying...
...four bishops arrive uninvited when the world's Anglican bishops gather in England this July for their decennial Lambeth Conference, there may be a row. In the U.S., Bishop Chambers could face a trial by a court of Episcopal bishops for abetting the schism...
...prospects of the Anglican Church of North America are difficult to gauge. A faction in one of the new dioceses has muddied things by opposing the Denver consecration service and calling for reunion with Rome. The church has only about 100 parishes and 10,000 members, v. 2.9 million for the Episcopal Church. But the rebels predict quick growth now that bishops are in place and have set a goal of 100,000 members by midyear. Says Robert S. Morse of Oakland, Calif, one of the new bishops: "We will, in 50 years, be the only Episcopal Church...
...World, a personal, biblical faith was an American characteristic from the start. The early settlers' fervor was reactivated in the 18th century by Jonathan Edwards and Anglican George Whitefield, America's first mass revivalist. When Whitefield hit Philadelphia in 1739, Freethinker Ben Franklin figured his open-air congregation at 30,000 and marveled: "It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. It seemed as if all the world were growing religious." But the social consequences of religious zeal were more dramatic during the "Second Awakening," which took place more than half a century...