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...considered it beside the point, Toynbee gave history not only a pattern but a spiritual end. He reached the conclusion that man's real history is religieus history and that civilizations are really nothing but steppingstones in man's progress to deeper spiritual insight. Yet Toynbee, an Anglican in childhood, always showed himself so ready to range various prophets, gods and philosophers alongside Christ that the question inevitably arose just what kind of Christian he was. That question is more fully answered in his new book, An Historian's Approach to Religion (Oxford; $5), in which...
What, wonders Anglican Mrs. Mirylees, should she do with the Nanteos Cup? She is sure that it should stay in Wales and should be accessible to the veneration of pious Christians. But some Church of England clerics regard veneration of relics as rank superstition. Perhaps the cup would be better off, she feels, in Roman Catholic hands-for instance, the Trappist monks on Caldey Island off the coast of South Wales...
Some churchmen are trying to spread the notion that the Chinese Communists are really being kind to Christians. A fortnight ago, Anglican Bishop K. H. Ting of Chekiang appeared at the World Council of Churches meeting in Hungary (TIME, Aug. 13) to say that Christian churches in Communist China are free. The Chinese people, said Bishop Ting, have come to regard Communist rule as "an act of God and a demonstration of His love." Last week brought further evidence of just how "free" Christianity is in Red China. After keeping him prisoner for five years, the Communists released Henry Ambrose...
Died. Dr. Maude Royden Shaw, 79, first woman preacher in London (because Anglican precedent did not allow women clerics, she became an assistant minister at the nonconformist City Temple in 1917), Oxford-educated suffragette, onetime pacifist (she renounced pacifism as "negative" at the outbreak of World War II) who shocked American bluenoses by smoking cigarettes on a preaching tour in 1928, married (1944) the Rev. George W. H. Shaw after a 43-year, triangular love affair described in her book, A Threefold Cord; in London...
...have traveled a gruesome gamut of agonizing deaths. Blessed Margaret Clitherow, a jolly, capable British housewife who had hid many an underground cleric in her secret "priests' chamber," chose not to plead innocent or guilty at her trial in 1586 so as not to involve her children or Anglican husband-though she knew the penalty for such a stand was being pressed to death. "She was about a quarter of an hour in dying," flat on the ground with a sharp stone under her back and a door on her body with "weights placed upon it to quantity...