Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second, Archbishop Ramsey criticized the idea that it was Jesus' freedom which makes him significant for all time and that his religion and God are irrelevant. "He was not just free; He was free for a reason--to show the source of light beyond," the Archbishop answered. "Jesus was the living God of the Bible and had an existence...
...picketers, numbering 21, paraded on the Kirkland Street side of Memorial Hall before the Archbishop's address. They were from Boston, Providence, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and carried signs such as "One world church would be totalitarian," "God's word is true,' 'and "The World Council of Churches aids Communism...
...Archbishop Ramsey felt that this second rejection of God was beneficial in hat it emphasized a lesson: "the call of Christian belief is not just that Jesus is Divine and we worship Him; it is also that God is Christ-like...
...third and final "death of God" talk which the Archbishop attacked was that of a diety dying and then coming to life again. This concept, he stated, is mythology. "The death of Jesus does not contradict the divine element; it explicates it," he said, adding that the divine glory of God is never more apparent than in death...
...Archbishop Ramsey concluded his address by advising the audience to "learn all you can from the secular world, but beware of accepting uncritically ideologies of the secular world." He had begun his speech by describing how theories of evolution and historical criticism brought new depth to the Christian concept of God, but how it also brought "false at- tachment" to the liberal-Victorian ideollogy of secular cultural progress...