Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exclaimed the Most Rev. Arthur C. Lichtenberger, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Like everybody else at the Episcopalians' 60th triennial General Convention in Detroit last week, he was astonished at the speed with which the House of Bishops committed themselves to negotiate toward Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake's proposal for a four-church merger (TIME cover...
...Gibson Jr. moved the acceptance of the invitation issued by the United Presbyterian General Assembly, to begin talks looking to eventual union of the Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and United Church of Christ.* He reminded his 190 fellow bishops that they were not passing on the merits of the Blake proposal as such, but on "an official invitation from the United Presbyterian Church-an official, important and deeply serious invitation." It was noon, and Presiding Bishop Lichtenberger interrupted the proceedings to give the regular noonday prayer: Look mercifully, 0 Lord, on the broken body of thy church. And suddenly, within about...
...Guidelines for the merged church, as suggested by Dr. Blake, who is Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), include: A "diversity of theological formulations of the faith, and a variety of worship and liturgy": a "truly democratic government"; "visible and historical continuity with the church of all ages, before and after the Reformation...
...Disciples of Christ, which would make a denomination of some 4,000,000 members in 14,000 congregations. Back at once came a favorable reply suggesting that merger conferences begin in September. The delegates also voted to "respond affirmatively" to the proposal of Presbyterian Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake for a merger of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ (TIME cover, May 26). Said pleased President Herbster: "We promised in the beginning to be not only a united church but a uniting church...
...Polish National Catholic Church on the basis of agreement in the truth, and it seems likely that we shall enter into the same type of unity with the great Philippine Independent Catholic Church and, perhaps, with the Lusitanian Church of Portugal and the Spanish Reformed Church." As for the Blake proposal, he placed himself in agreement with the opinion that such a scheme is "not of the holy way of faith and truth but of ecclesiastical organization and political management...