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...before. In the processional marched 700 priests and patriarchs, bishops and archbishops, ministers and laymen. The Rev. Dr. Marc Boegner of France read the First Lesson (Isaiah 53) in French. Archbishop Athenagoras, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, read the Second Lesson (Philippians 2:1-11) in Greek. Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Norway led the recitation of the Apostles' Creed in German. The Rt. Rev. G.K.A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester, offered the prayers in English...
Citation: "Undaunted before those who questioned his right to say what he be lieved. A preacher whose labors have taught thousands the truth of Wesley's last with us.' " words: 'The best of all is, God is Eivind J. Berggrav, retired Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway...
Most of the world's Protestant leaders will come to Evanston. Among them: Germany's Bishop Otto Dibelius, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Bishops G. Bromley Oxnam and Henry Knox Sherrill and Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr from the U.S.* But Dr. Visser 't Hooft was hopeful that delegates from the Iron Curtain churches would be there, too. Said he: "It's a way to emphasize Christian fellowship, and some of these churches have a great deal to give...
...urging of the editors of the Christian Century, Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav, retired Primate of Norway and one of six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches, set forth some of the criticisms European Christians are apt to make of American Christians "without attempting to say," wrote the bishop, "whether or not they are justified." His list...
...Bishop Berggrav concedes that European churchmen are staggered by the fact that U.S. churches are steadily growing while church influence is declining all over Europe. "Perhaps," he muses, "we are like the son who said Yes, but did not do what he had promised, while the Americans are like the other son who said No, but did go on to do the Father's will. Is it perhaps that the Americans are weak in thinking things out, but quick and firm to act, while we are sound in our reasoning, but weak to carry through...