Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Church of England's canon law decrees that babies should be christened within a fortnight of birth. Parents are prone to stretch the deadline a bit, but now the whole practice is under fire. Three vicars have resigned from the Church of England, announcing that they no longer believe in infant baptism. Three others, with covert support from dozens of Low Church vicars, have informed their bishops that they will baptize only believing adults...
...discrimination in housing by establishing the "absolute discretion" of any property holder to "decline to sell, lease or rent" to anyone. About the same time, Coffield invited a San Francisco Biblical scholar to speak to a group of priests. Weeks later, the cardinal told him that the invitation violated canon law and ordered Coffield to take a "vacation" outside the archdiocese...
...equally possible that the most profound insights into the nature of man and the meaning of life may appear in the work of an atheist rather than a committed theologian. "We know," says Canon Lloyd with dry realism, "that God could do without the Church of England...
...Either we experiment in faith, or else we fossilize," answers Canon Lloyd, and Don Benedict argues that in order to re-establish its credibility in the secular age the church must emphasize the ethical rather than confessional aspect of Christ. But today's renewal theologians are far more realistic than the Social Gospelers of the first decades of the 20th century who assumed that the church could guide the world on a path of easy progress toward
...house is in need of cleaning," says James R. Thompson, assistant state's attorney for Cook County (Chicago), Laws prohibiting prejudicial pre-trial talk by court and law-enforcement officials are already on the books in 30 states, and these statutes reflect a 50-year-old canon of the American Bar Association. But the A.B.A. has never invoked its canon...