Word: canonically
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Divorce. The present Episcopalian canon on divorce is based on Christ's saying, But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. -Matthew 5:32. The only divorced person who may ever be remarried with the Church's blessing is the innocent party in a divorce granted on grounds of adultery. The Convention's 17-man Joint Commission on Holy Matrimony recommended that bishops should be allowed discretion to permit church marriages...
Leader of the attack on the proposed canon was round-faced Rt. Rev. Wallace E. Conkling, Bishop of Chicago. Cried he: "We must recognize human nature but not yield to it ..." The bishops, seeming to agree with Chicago's Conkling, voted 65-to-44 to scrap the report. But that night a special five-man committee worked until 2 a.m. on a new proposal...
...Having turned back long ago from Canon Law and Scholasticism to the Bible, Protestantism ought now to go behind the Bible to Christ himself. So doing, it would be confronted again by that distinction between the Gospel and the teachings that is so clear in the Epistles of St. Paul. The Gospel is the primitive Church's interpretation of the mission of Christ, and was later to be compressed into the Rule of Faith and the Apostles' Creed. The teachings are the precepts of Christ, preserved in the parables of the Lord and the Sermon on the Mount...
This Hellenic salt and Christian pepper have seasoned all of Sir Richard's life & thought. Son of an Anglican canon, a classics don since his Oxford graduation (1903) and onetime vice-chancellor of Belfast University, Sir Richard at 65 is a man with a straggly mustache, pink complexion and owlish eyes peering over gold-rimmed spectacles. Livingstone stalks across the Oxford quadrangles, mortarboard jammed squarely on his thinning hair, his black M.A. gown flowing, his chin thrust well forward...
Twice a year, at Easter and Christmas, the London Times turns over its leading editorial to religion. The editorial writer for the occasion is not a Timesman but an Anglican parson: 53-year-old Canon Spencer Leeson, who recently gave up the $16,000-a-year headmastership of illustrious Winchester College (prep school) to become a parish priest in one of Portsmouth's worst-blitzed areas. Said the Times leader...