Word: churchmanship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Government by Discussion. They also provided the new Congregationalist International with a discerning statement of principles. "Our churchmanship," it read, "is inconsistent not only with any form of state totalitarianism but also government by the massman or the mere power of majorities. The rights of man as the child of God and the rights of minorities must be respected...
...whole, he remains an unknown quantity. Said the Manchester Guardian last week: "His opinions on many great questions are still hidden, for he has spoken little and written less . . . Dr. Fisher has still to prove himself." Even his churchmanship is uncertain, as the distinguished liberal church journalist Sidney Dark caustically noted: "I have no idea whether Dr. Fisher is high or low or broad...
...fine new, debt-free Gothic church. His Low-Church parish in Houston feared he might be too High-Church when he went there in 1934. But friendly, straightforward Dr. De Wolfe soon had them genuflecting and liking it. Says he: "I'm not interested in high or low churchmanship but deep churchmanship...
...churchmen-not only good, but fairly representative of U. S. churchmanship at its most intelligent-were less interested in making un-American motions than in making sense of the problems facing the churches. The biggest of these, the war, floored them at the start. Delegates could not agree on whether to oppose all wars, some wars, or just World War II. They did agree, and the conference with them, that four factors tend to push the U. S. into the war: "British propaganda. . . . Sentimental reaction to the invasion of Finland. . . . The activity of idealists-both Christian and non-Christian-trying...
...sorrow and confusion after the death of the West's first Prince of the Church, Bishop Sheil had a quick decision to make-whether or not to cancel his speech. In a stroke of astute churchmanship, he resolved to deliver it as Cardinal Mundelein's political and ecclesiastical testament, a summing up of the liberal views which had made the Cardinal a personal friend of President Roosevelt and a public friend of the New Deal...