Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the doctors made news by asking the churchmen for a diagnosis. Chicago's huge Medical Center*(3,500 students) held a five-day meeting of doctors and ministers...
...Perhaps, he said, the much-regretted absence of either Roman Catholic or Russian Orthodox delegates was God's doing: "I propose that we should now praise and thank God, that it pleases Him to stand so clearly in the way of our plans." Barth warned the churchmen that their job was to bear witness to the Gospel -not to presume to the world-saving functions reserved for God Himself. Said he: "We ought to give up ... every thought that the care of the Church, the care of the world, is our care . . . For just this is the final root...
During his ministry there, he took a lengthy round-the-world trip as secretary to Y.M.C.A. Leader Sherwood Eddy. A frequent globetrotter, his acquaintance among world churchmen is wide and cordial; one of Amsterdam's highlights was the beardy kisses of welcome that Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens gave him in the robing room before the opening service. In 1928, Oxnam became president of DePauw University in Indiana; in 1936, at 44, he was elected bishop-then Methodism's youngest-and assigned to the Omaha area...
Repercussions started popping almost immediately. From Johannesburg came an excited statement from a group of Anglican churchmen denouncing such "secret negotiations." In London, the Catholic Herald deplored the "rumor" that Anglicans "may be seeking spiritual reunion" with the Roman Catholic Church. If the letters were in fact diplomatic feelers, said the Herald, they were "not regarded in that light by the Vatican...
...Some churchmen cheered when the Supreme Court ruled (Si) for Agnostic Vashti McCollum in her suit against religious education on school property (TIME, March 22). Others, however, were not so sure there was anything to cheer about. Among them were 28 top Protestant leaders, including Bishops Angus Dun and William Scarlett, and Reverends Reinhold Niebuhr, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henry P. Van Dusen and Douglas Horton. They issued a statement deploring the Supreme Court decision, believed that it would "greatly accelerate the trend toward the secularization of our culture." In the current issue of Christianity and Crisis, Professor John C. Bennett...