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When F. Donald Coggan was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the world's 46 million Anglicans in 1974, he became the first Evangelical to lead the Church of England in 126 years. Last week the zealous and professorial Archbishop traveled to Rome for his first meeting with Pope Paul VI and made an unexpected and dramatic bid for Anglican and Roman Catholic intercommunion...
...late-afternoon traffic jam clogged the Via Nazionale outside, Archbishop Coggan spoke challengingly to a congregation of Roman Catholic and Anglican clergy from the gothic pulpit of the American Episcopal Church of St. Paul. In announcing his desire for a shared communion now, the Archbishop argued that the churches face "an evangelistic task whose size escalates with the multiplying millions. 'Talk to us about reconciliation,' a skeptical world says to us, 'when you yourselves are reconciled.' " Noting that in many areas of the world Anglicans and Catholics already drink from the same chalice, Coggan asked...
...churches after a split of more than four centuries. "It would appear that Dr. Coggan is overeager and jumping his fences without due regard for their height," sniffed a Roman Curia official. "We are a long, long way from accepting the Host at the hands of an Anglican pastor...
That is because unity has become a more tangible possibility after a decade of work by a joint Anglican-Catholic commission. To date, the commission has produced substantial agreement on the nature of the Eucharist, on each church's recognition of the other's ministries and on the "universal primacy" that should be held by the see of Rome in any future union (TIME, Jan. 31). Among the major differences still unresolved: the questions of marriage after divorce, the veneration of Mary and priestly celibacy...
According to the latest earth tremor in New Testament studies, the present scholarly consensus is wrong. John A.T. Robinson, 57, Anglican dean of chapel and lecturer in theology at Trinity College, Cambridge, declares that all 27 New Testament books were produced in approximately the two decades before A.D. 70, and that they are the work of the Apostles themselves or of contemporaries who worked with them. Since Jesus was crucified around A.D. 30, this would mean that the authors knew numerous eyewitnesses to Jesus' life and early church events...