Word: communionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into a microphone in Omaha, Neb. last week, Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam read the ritual of Holy Communion. In 1,500 churches in Nebraska and Iowa, loudspeakers broadcast those words while 50,000 Methodists knelt and partook of the Lord's Supper. Bishop Oxnam explained that this broadcast, first of its kind, would enable Methodists to take Communion in small outlying churches whose pastors, not fully ordained, are not privileged to give it. Thus Bishop Oxnam's broadcast was a logical extension of a modern Protestant idea: that the minister's work may well be widened...
Last week Episcopalians were re-examining the nature of Communion, with special reference to a rubric in the Book of Common Prayer which reads: "There shall be none admitted to the Holy Communion, until such time as he be confirmed, or be ready and desirous to be confirmed." On its face, this rubric would seem to bar non-Episcopalians from taking Communion at Episcopal altars. Last winter the issue arose when churchmen of numerous faiths attended an "open Communion" service in the National Cathedral in Washington (TIME, Jan. 31). Last month, under Anglo-Catholic leadership, about one-fifth...
...Liberal Evangelical conference in Manhattan last week, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, well-beloved onetime Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, went into the history of open Communion. Pointing out that the controversial rubric dates back to 1281, when there were no Reformed churches, Dr. Robbins rested the Liberal Evangelical case upon the fact that canon law makes no reference to open Communion, that the rubric was intended to apply only to members of the church...
...could use some more of you; we might even be glad to make some exchange of some others, for you carry a weight in the social services of this city out of all proportion to your numbers" (66,500). To Protestant members of the police force, at a communion breakfast. Mayor LaGuardia declared that he is no more radical than Jesus Christ...
When, on Sunday, Mr. Mclntire handed out communion grape-juice in paper cups, communion bread on paper pie plates, 1,223 people filled his tent to eat the Lord's Supper. Attendance in Collingswood Church...