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Word: anglicanism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing dismay of conservative churchgoers in the U.S. and Europe, the World Council of Churches seems to have been moving increasingly away from its avowed purpose of fostering Christian unity. In recent years the ecumenical organization, which represents 301 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches with more than 400 million members, has appeared to many to have placed more emphasis on such complex social problems as racism and political oppression than on traditional spiritual concerns. Last week in Geneva the council took a step toward a more tranquil course with the election of a new General Secretary: Emilio Castro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Bridge Builder Takes Charge | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...policy is backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. Says he: "Fidelity to something which has gone is like asking someone who is an agnostic to be martyred for the faith." If three-fourths of the dioceses support the proposed change, as is expected, divorced Anglican men and women may be promising once again to forsake all others and be "faithful so long as ye both shall live," possibly as early as the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: One More Try | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...Catholic Church in England. The girl in the red skirt refers to the scarlet woman of Rome; the lamb in her lap is about to sicken from the green apple of false knowledge it has bitten; the sheep, wandering unattended into the corn, are the strayed flock of the Anglican clergy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: God Was in the Details | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

They met 18 months ago on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, where he was recording the funky album Too Low for Zero; but as they emerged from an Anglican church in a prosperous suburb of Sydney, Australia, Elton John, 36, and his bride, German-born Sound Engineer Renata Blauel, 30, were singing anything but the blues. "I really love Renata," John told reporters. "And yes, I'm nervous." John, who once described himself as a "male Betty Boop," reportedly gave his beloved a large heart-shaped necklace with 26 diamonds before flying to New Zealand, first stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 27, 1984 | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

DIED. John A.T. Robinson, 64, boldly individualistic Anglican theologian, former Bishop of Woolwich (1959-69) and Cambridge lecturer who scandalized the church world with his 1963 biblical study Honest to God, which argued that traditional concepts of a supernatural God and Saviour were essentially mythical and inadequate in this scientific age; of cancer; in Arncliffe, Yorkshire, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 19, 1983 | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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