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Some suicides are not sinful, and even those that are should receive a Christian burial, says a report approved last week by the Anglican House of Bishops...
Samuel George Frederick Brandon, 54, author of Man and His Destiny in the Great Religions, is the son of a Devonshire sailor; he was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1932, earned his doctorate in divinity while campaigning with Britain's First Army in North Africa during World War II. In 1951, he gave up a career as an army officer to accept his present post as professor of comparative religion at the University of Manchester, and presented a concise version of Man and His Destiny in the Wilde Lectures on Natural and Comparative Religion at Oxford between...
...secure from the everlasting menace of time's destructive logic." Brandon tacitly admits that he has some trouble juggling his Christian faith and his academic findings. "My findings as a professor lead me to recognize certain things," he says, "and if these clash with my views as an Anglican then I must not panic but evaluate them properly, balancing one side against the other. I believe we have inherited a form of Christianity which one may well question as to whether it was original, and whether it has developed on the right lines...
...back-countrymen are convinced, although the N.E.B. New Testament has sold about 4,500,000 copies and is used in some Anglican church services. Last week one Church of England layman with some competence in English letters wrote to the Times, protesting against the use of the New English Bible in worship. "Before such substitution becomes common practice, it is to be hoped that the style of this translation may be improved. I am not here raising any doctrinal question, but write simply as a lover of the English language." The complainant: Poet T. S. Eliot...
Guest List. The list of observers for the Vatican Council is rapidly getting filled up. So far, the World Presbyterian Alliance, the Anglican Communion, the World Methodist Council, the International Convention of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ), the International Congregational Council, and the Lutheran World Federation have agreed to send observer-delegates, who will attend all public and some private sessions of the council. Last week in Berlin, the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, named as its delegate Dr. Edmund Schlink, a Lutheran ecumenical scholar from Heidelberg University. Meeting in Paris, the Central Committee of the World Council...