Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politics and ecumenism blended effectively during the last two years in Ghana when Catholic, Anglican and Protestant leaders joined in openly criticizing human rights violations by two successive military regimes. Their action helped bring about the first elected civilian government in ten years. The former British colony, where Catholics are a distinct minority, was a fitting if exotic site for John Paul's first meeting with the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert A.K. Runcie, leader of the world's 65 million Anglicans and Episcopalians...
...astonishing things about the growth of Christianity in Africa is that it increased dramatically after colonialism ended. "One would have thought," says South Africa's Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, "that Christianity, having come with foreigners, would have been rejected when independence came and the church would have declined." In 1960 Africa was only about 30% Christian. In 1980 it is nearly half Christian...
During the past year a group of American, Canadian and British theologians conducted a long-distance debate on the moral justification of capitalism. The majority concluded it offers greater moral freedom than any other economic system. Said Anglican Edward Norman: "Capitalism is full of minor evils, existing beneath the umbrella of its overall good effect of preserving individual freedom. Capitalism has a good case to argue. It is the case of freedom." The fact remains that throughout the world, millions prefer security to freedom, or think they do, never having known real freedom. Indeed doublethink Communism teaches them to redefine...
...seven Specials all hail from Coventry, in central England, and will remain grounded right there because, according to Panter, "it's a small town and we know all the kids." "People there know we're nothing special," adds Dammers, who is the son of an Anglican minister. "It's important to keep on the same level as the people who buy your records...
...Charles, like most famed debauches, repented at the end. He converted on his deathbed to Catholicism. His father had died to maintain the Anglican Church, and his successor, his brother James, would lose his throne because of his Catholicism. Charles II, unlike his brother, had realized that his public reception into the Church of Rome would be disastrous for the monarchy, England being rabidly anti-Catholic. Charles has subordinated his own religious convictions to the good of the state, until it was too late for anyone to care. Fraser's description of his deathbed conversion is the most moving chapter...