Word: baptisme
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...with Rome under Henry VIII, Anglicanism preserved the ecclesiastical government of bishops in the apostolic succession and the central place of corporate liturgical worship. But the Church of England, with the Continental Reformation, accepted the Bible as the final authority for faith, and recognized only two Christ-instituted sacraments, baptism and Holy Eucharist. Yet if churchmen find it hard to describe a specifically Anglican theology, there is no doubting the reality of a modern Anglican theological manner: not the brain-numbing abstractionism of Germany's sages but an urbane lucidity spiced-à la C. S. Lewis-with literate Oxbridge...
...chats were edgy. The work of the conference, which was sponsored by the World Council of Churches, is with the bedrock problems that stand in the way of Christian unity-the meaning of Baptism, of the Eucharist, of the nature of the church and its ministry. Unanimity on these issues is hard to reach. "Faith and Order is a risky business," admitted Methodist Theologian Albert Outler of Texas' Perkins School of Theology. "We are never farther away than two bigots from disruption or three diehards from a deadlock...
...year ago, Stockwood opened a diocesan training center where laymen meet for intensive study and lectures on the relevance of faith to modern life, from the morality of expense-account living to the morality of strike tactics. Stockwood is encouraging putting off baptism until a child has some grasp of its meaning, and also favors "full-rite visitations," in which baptism, confirmation and First Communion are all administered to the same recipient on the same...
They know that if the South is to rise again, it will not be with Confederate dollars. With a fervor which rivals Southern Baptism, they cultivate Northern investment. They are inordinately self-concious and are feverishly concerned about the "image of the South." Because ready capital has replaced the boll weevil as the South's most persistent problem, they are willing even to forsake sacred traditions to attract outside investment...
...stressed the part played by churches in the founding of the University, and said that the first president had been forced to resign because he did not believe in infant baptism...