Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catholic must insist on taking the sacraments more seriously than some protestants have sometimes done," said Blake, "so protestants in the reunited Church must insist on catholics fully accepting the Reformation principle that God has revealed and can reveal Himself and His will more and more fully through the Holy Scriptures...
Cape & Cassock. The new church must be democratic, Blake continued, with a government in which laymen share equally with ministers; it must be capable of containing a diversity of theological formulations and ways of worship. And it must be wary of pomp and circumstance. "Since it appears to be necessary to have certain inequalities in status in the church ... let us make certain that the more status a member or minister has the more simple be his dress and attitude ... A simple cassock is generally a better Christian garb for the highest member of the clergy than cape and miter...
When Presbyterian Blake had finished his long sermon, Bishop Pike (who had foreknowledge of what his Presbyterian friend would say) stepped forward in his white and blue vestments to add his amen to Blake's proposal: "I can say that his prophetic proclamation is the most sound and inspiring proposal for the unity of the church in this country which has ever been made in its history...
Hope & Specifics. If Dr. Blake's plan could be translated into practice, the new church would have 17,800,000 members (see box), approximately equaling the Baptists. According to the best estimates, it would take a minimum of ten years to put the plan into effect. This seemed still a bit hasty to Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft (younger brother of the late Senator Robert A.), who plumped for a slower, looser merger. And Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles, president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, thought the Blake proposal vague...
...scent of unity was heavy in the air, and all week long Protestant leaders were lining up behind the Blake-Pike lead. Presiding Bishop Arthur Carl Lichtenberger of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Rev. Dr. James I. McCord, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, and Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord endorsed the general principles of the proposal. Newly elected President Joseph Irwin Miller (see below) told newsmen: "Perhaps it's the most important church meeting of the century...