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Insider or Out. Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, by now a celebrated item in the canon of that highly praised writer, stuns the reader's mind with the intensity of its autobiographical anguish, evokes all the prophetic frenzies of the author's Harlem childhood and violently scorns-at the same time that it demands respect for-his abandoned pulpit. Baldwin is the insider looking out. Many people, and this includes all who read for enjoyment, will prefer Goyen-the outsider looking in. When he looks in at the theological thimbleriggers of the clapboard cathedrals...
...supposed that a Gothic chapter house full of Renaissance prelates was less full of worldly guile than Goyen's illiterate, self-certified Savonarolas in their rented temples. It is just that they are more obvious; no canon law inhibits their behavior and no lapidary creed slows down their freewheeling extempore theology...
...interest, and I thought it good. There is only one factual correction that I would make. It is said that the recent measure passed by Parliament freeing church courts from final appeal to the Privy Council was Ramsey-inspired. In fact, the initiation of this measure and of the Canon Law Measures goes much farther back. In 1948 and subsequent years. I initiated the machinery of inquiry and deliberation and drafting, whether by commissions or by the convocations out of which these measures came...
...first working session Canon Max Warren, general secretary of Eng land's Church Missionary Society, rose to contend that "God was at work" in a pair of non-Anglican thinkers who are customarily linked among religion's enemies: Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. Warren argued that the modern Chris tian concern for social justice "owes not a little, under God, to the stimulus of Marx," and that Christians who really understand the value of psychoanalysis "will humbly thank God for his grace at work in Freud...
...state. But Ramsey supports antidisestablishmentarianism, although he wants the church to have "greater liberty to order its own affairs." Recently, Parliament passed a Ramsey-inspired measure that frees church courts from final appeal to the Privy Council. He hopes now to get parliamentary approval for a revision of canon law, which was last codified in 1604, and for the right of bishops to experiment with new liturgical services. His long-range goals: selection of bishops by the clergy, rather than by the Crown, and a revised Prayer Book...