Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have never really believed I was Archbishop of Canterbury," began Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, 73, who has held the office since 1945, as he addressed his final meeting of the Anglican Assembly; "that is why I have enjoyed it as much as I have." Then, touched by the 40-minute eulogy-filled farewell of his colleagues, the retiring primate continued his uncommon burst of self-revelation: "I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: it is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, he told reporters last week, his chief problem and main undertaking "would be that of bringing the Christian faith to the people of the country in every way possible-by preaching, by teaching, by writing, by radio and by television. I should say this is overwhelmingly my first interest...
Scholar & Thinker. High-church Archbishop Ramsey is a scholar and thinker rather than a mover and shaker. He has written five books, with titles such as The Gospel and the Catholic Church, The Resurrection of Christ, The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ. Theologically, he stresses Christian obedience to God; it is not for man to decide things, but to make himself God's willing instrument. Like Dr. Fisher, he is "for" church unity, but where Fisher tends to do things in committee, Ramsey tends to do them on his knees. "Ecumenism," he has said...
Unlike Dr. Fisher, Archbishop Ramsey would like to see the Church of England separated from the state. "But you mustn't campaign for disestablishment," he says. "I wish rather that the church would become worthy of it-would become so annoying to the state that it had disestablishment forced upon it." Administration does not interest him, nor does the proliferation of committees. Says he: "I would gladly let lapse much of the existing machinery, which would be no loss to the church...
Preacher & Teacher. Archbishop Ramsey also disagrees with Archbishop Fisher on the desirability of making adultery a criminal offense, and demurs from Dr. Fisher's opinion that God may well want the human race to wipe itself out. "I am not a pacifist," he told students at Oxford last year, "but it is difficult to see today how there could be a just war. If the choice came between blowing up the world and being overrun by Communism, I still don't think we have the right to blow up the world...