Word: anglicans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about evenly for & against the restoration. All the opposition has come from ruin lovers who feel that any attempt to restore the abbey will deface its hoary beauty. The Office of Works, which must approve the plan, puts the chances of approval at 50-50. But scores of Anglican clergymen have warmly endorsed the project. So has one R. R. Verity, who identifies himself as a descendant of the first Abbot of Fountains Abbey. Says Simon Elwes: "It is in God's hands...
This Hellenic salt and Christian pepper have seasoned all of Sir Richard's life & thought. Son of an Anglican canon, a classics don since his Oxford graduation (1903) and onetime vice-chancellor of Belfast University, Sir Richard at 65 is a man with a straggly mustache, pink complexion and owlish eyes peering over gold-rimmed spectacles. Livingstone stalks across the Oxford quadrangles, mortarboard jammed squarely on his thinning hair, his black M.A. gown flowing, his chin thrust well forward...
England's modern John Bunyan is a wise, witty, sad-faced Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College named Clive Staples Lewis. Like the Inspired Tinker, Anglican Convert Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce) writes of the trials and troubles of man's soul in a sinful world; to dramatize his theology he peoples his stories with a menagerie of sprites, devils, and fabulous monsters. Lewis' latest: That Hideous Strength (Macmillan, $3), third volume of a trilogy* begun in 1943. It is loaded with enough spiritual wisdom for a dozen sermons...
...prophesied: "The reunion of the Church will come, and today there are many signs of its coming." Contact "between the Anglican churches and the great Catholic Orthodox churches of the East is growing constantly closer...
Twice a year, at Easter and Christmas, the London Times turns over its leading editorial to religion. The editorial writer for the occasion is not a Timesman but an Anglican parson: 53-year-old Canon Spencer Leeson, who recently gave up the $16,000-a-year headmastership of illustrious Winchester College (prep school) to become a parish priest in one of Portsmouth's worst-blitzed areas. Said the Times leader...