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...inexorable" process: reunion with the Anglican Church (2,922,000 members), from which the Methodists originally broke away (to preach the Gospel to the masses with hotter fervor than the Anglicans considered seemly). Two-year peace talks had bogged down on the issue of apostolic succession, the Anglican doctrine which declares that the church's ministry is derived from the apostles by a continuing mystic transmission of spiritual authority through the episcopacy. "The doctrine of historic episcopacy is contrary to the plain warrant of Scripture," cried Theologian C. Kingsley Barrett of Durham University. "We must...
Furthermore, had the Archbishop actually said that God might "will" man's end in nuclear war? No, declared Toronto's Canon H. R. Hunt, general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada. The Archbishop had simply noted that God's providence leaves man's fate up to man. Said Canon Hunt: "Perversity in human conduct and wanton disobedience of divine law result inevitably in the destruction and death of sinful man. Whatsoever man sows, that shall he reap...
...contemporary British artist views the Holy Family in modern dress, see Arthur Fretwell's Flight into Egypt, one of five pictures he painted for the Anglican church of St. Mary the Virgin in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England...
...Anglo-Saxons, says Author Alan W. Watts, former Anglican priest and a leading U.S. exponent of Zen, the main obstacle to the achievement of Zen's peace is an inability to purge themselves of the need for self-justification. This urge to prove oneself right "has always jiggled the Chinese sense of the ludicrous." The Chinese rated human-heartedness ahead of righteousness, felt that one could not be right without also being wrong. "At the roots of Chinese life there is a trust in the good-and-evil of one's own nature which is peculiarly foreign...
...boat trip on the Thames, the bishops this week will move into the raftered hall of London's red-turreted Lambeth Palace (the Archbishop of Canterbury's residence) and buckle down to work. Though the conference, strictly closed to outsiders, has no official, binding force on the Anglican churches, the bishops know that their decisions will carry considerable weight...