Word: clericalization
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Instead of an episcopal staff, Makarios, 51, carries a kingly scepter, and he signs all his documents in red ink. These are not the personal eccentricities of the only cleric to govern a sovereign nation, but privileges accorded the archbishops of Cyprus by 5th century Byzantine Emperor Zeno as his tribute to one of Christendom's most ancient strongholds. It was jt only a dozen years after Jesus' death that the apostle Paul brought Christianity to Cyprus, and Paul's companion, Barnabas, became the island's first bishop and patron saint. In 431, the Council...
...most elastic church in Christendom"-and with some justice. The essential Lutheran faith is contained in the Augsburg Confession of 1530; the Church of England's 39 Articles, far from being an authorized confession of the faith, are mentally rejected in whole or part by nearly every Anglican cleric who "assents" to them when he assumes church office. The Anglican faith encompasses Evangelical missionaries as fundamentalist as any Southern Baptist and such subtle, sophisticated minds as San Francisco's Bishop James A. Pike, who questions the virgin birth and speaks of "demythologizing" the Resurrection...
...fight for right moral standards, and these recent troubles have stirred us to do it." Many of England's clergymen seem to have a more flexible attitude toward the fight than the archbishop does. Almost every week London's press can headline the words of an Anglican cleric seeking to make his faith "relevant" to modern life, who jovially expresses toleration for homosexuality, divorce or adultery. An Anglican bishop recently suggested that "we stop using the word God at all for a generation." It is perhaps a consequence of such seeming weakness that except for weddings, christenings...
...Pope, Angelo Roncalli took the name of John, partly because it reminded him of John the Baptist, the precursor of the Lord, and of the other John, the beloved disciple and evangelist. Montini's choice was equally significant. "The name is a program in itself," exclaimed one Vatican cleric. Clearly, Pope Paul intended to recall the great Apostle to the Gentiles, who, said the editor of L'Osservatore Romano, is "a symbol of ecumenical unity, venerated by Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians." It was St. Paul who internationalized the early church; it was Paul, through his dynamic letters...
...Union Theological Seminary. In it, Van Dusen, a recent past president of Union's student body, innocently offered his assistance to Coffin in any matter concerning the students. Although Van Dusen had no thoughts of an academic career, Coffin with mistaken shrewdness concluded that the young cleric was fishing for a job. Later, Coffin wrote Van Dusen, urging him to take an instructorship at Union, and made the offer so warmly courteous that Van Dusen accepted, believing that his revered adviser really wanted him to do so. "And so," says Van Dusen, who years later unraveled the confusion...