Word: communionism
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...large Gothic church and a five-story community house on the Quai d'Orsay. When Presbyterian Williams took over in 1933, he busied himself learning the rituals of all Protestant sects, performs baptisms in any style except total immersion, calls in a Baptist missionary when this is required. Communion is an "open" service in which anyone may participate...
East Enders grouped in front of the cart or watching diffidently from their doorways spattered applause throughout the half-hour play, guffawed occasionally at the dock-flavored cockney. Two white-haired women joined in the responses when the family in the play took Communion with the vicar, and the rest of the audience nodded approvingly as points were hammered home...
...Congregationalists and Episcopalians compete within one big church?" The two practical plans for unity which will be offered at Oberlin embody just this principle. One plan would join all churches that function "episcopally, congregationally and presbyterially," leaving local congregations free to administer the sacraments of Baptism and Communion in their own manner. A second plan is for a "federal union" in which each denomination would remain an entity, e.g., "the Methodist branch of the United Church of Christ...
...controversy may be heightened by Cozzens' feudally patronizing portrayal of the Negroes who serve Brocton's first families and are treated by them as near equals precisely because they make no unseemly claims to equality, e.g., in Arthur Winner's church, the Negro sexton deferentially takes communion last. Racially barbed is Cozzens' depiction of Eliot Woolf, a razor-sharp New York lawyer and a Jew-turned-Episcopalian whose "astute smelling-out of every little advantage . . . outside due process" makes Arthur Winner slightly queasy...
...group that calls itself "the oldest and largest Protestant communion" turned out in Minneapolis last week for an impressive show of strength. The Lutheran World Federation was holding its third assembly (the first in the U.S.), and before its ten-days' sessions were over, some 100,000 people were expected to join the 252 official delegates from 57 church bodies in 29 countries, representing more than two-thirds of the world's 70-odd million Lutherans...