Word: coggan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coggan began his career in a working-class parish, and as a bishop has kept contact with ordinary folk by visiting breweries, mines and shipyards. He occasionally dons a cassock, but generally wears a simple pin-stripe suit with purple vest. Says he: " 'Your Grace' and all that doesn't mean very much to me. It's not the label on the bottle but what's inside that matters...
...most striking fact about Coggan is that he is the first product of the church's Evangelical (Low Church) wing to become primate since John Bird Sumner was appointed 126 years...
Though they sometimes seem like Anglo-Baptists, the Anglican Evangelicals are generally not of the Billy Graham "hot gospel" stripe. Coggan was trained at an Evangelical seminary and taught at two others, in Toronto and London. Since he became a bishop in 1956, he has avoided party entanglements and is viewed today as a solid churchman popular with all elements. However, his orientation is evident in his concern for preaching, his longtime presidency of the world union of Bible societies, his interest in the "Feed the Minds" campaign to supply Christian reading to newly literate peoples, and his major recent...
...Coggan is horrified by the spread of pornography and has spoken of Britain as a "sick society" that would become healthy when "it starts living by some rules again. There's a lot to be said for the Ten Commandments." But he has publicly advocated more compassionate treatment of homosexuals, and is far from indifferent to poverty and racial problems in England and abroad. "This insular island must have its attention drawn to the Third World and its needs," Coggan said last week, and as for apartheid, he has publicly stated that it is incompatible with Christian beliefs...
Open Question. Coggan supported Ramsey's Methodist merger plan, and he now sees that effort as part of a "larger unity program" encompassing all Christians. Indeed, his own Call to the North program involves 52 denominational leaders, including Catholics and Salvation Army workers, who meet regularly at York to discuss how best to spread the word of God. Coggan appears receptive to the ordination of women, a practice that has never occurred in Anglicanism except for a handful of cases in Hong Kong. "It is now an open question," Coggan says. "The emotions are less and the intelligent approach...