Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...bland theme of the Toronto Congress. Evangelism-on the religious, political and cultural frontiers of the world-will not be the delegates' only concern; they will be deeply involved with inner searching and selfcriticism. "This is a desperately difficult time for Anglicanism," warns the Rev. Roger Lloyd, a canon of Winchester Cathedral. "The historic definition of Anglicanism needs renewing...
Ramsey enjoys worldwide renown for his lack of small talk. When Ramsey was subwarden of Lincoln Theological College, recalls Canon Herbert Waddams of Canterbury Cathedral, he had occasion to receive a young man seeking admission to the seminary. Outside, the clock struck 2:45. Silence reigned: awed youth, shy priest. Presently the clock struck 3. At last Ramsey spoke. "I think you'll find Lincoln a rather quiet place," he said...
...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...