Word: communionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against a world weak in faith by the smiling enthusiasm of their pastor, they heard him say: "God practically dropped this tent on us out of the sky. Isn't it wonderful? I never saw a tent that looked so pretty. . . . All my life I've taken communion out of little silver cups. But this Sunday we're going to have the great joy of taking it from paper cups...
...land whose mayor has come forward with such a proposal as this?" Last week, at a meeting of Mayor LaGuardia's fund- raising committee, Bishop Manning announced that $52,000 was in hand, part of it a contribution from the head of a church which is in communion with the Episcopal-Archbishop Athenagoras, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North & South America...
Backward. Spiritual climax of the Washington gathering was a communion service in the Cathedral, conducted by Bishop James Edward Freeman, Dean Noble Cilley Powell and Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, to which believers of all faiths were invited. Such a service was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury after the Oxford Conference last summer, with the stipulation that it did not set a precedent. To many an Anglican and High Episcopalian, "open communion" is fraught with danger. To them this celebration is no mere Lord's Supper or fellowship meal; it is a sacrificial act performed by a priest...
...usual after a joint communion service, there was outcry last week which suggested that such services still impede rather than aid the ecumenical movement. The High -Church Episcopal Living Church, in a 3,000-word editorial, riddled intercommunion as being contrary to the Prayer Book, disturbing to the faith of the faithful, fostering the idea that the Church is "just another sect," denying the sacrificial quality of the celebration, tending toward sacrilege, admitting that human fellowship can be a substitute for "Divine Society." Said the Living Church: "We ask for . . . sympathetic understanding in our disagreement with those who would make...
...bishops to be chosen from the Free Churches on the basis of their membership. Within this church there would be great freedom of doctrine and worship, but Anglicans would be asked to insist no longer on the sign of the cross at baptism, the wearing of surplices, kneeling at communion. In return the Nonconformists would be expected to forget their oldtime objections to bishops. Said a pamphlet released with the plan: "To many Free Churchmen the word 'bishop' still denotes 'the prelate's pride of place and autocratic methods . . . but the evils of nonresidence...