Word: communionism
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Although the Anglican Church is a tolerant communion, such proposals, coming from a consecrated bishop, were a little hard for orthodox churchmen to take. In 1947, after Bishop Barnes had published The Rise of Christianity, a book expounding his unorthodox views, the archbishop of Canterbury declared: "If his views were mine, I should not feel that I could still hold episcopal office in the church...
Excommunication places Feeney "out of communion with the faithful and deprives him of the right to administer and receive the sacraments." It also subjects him to other punishments and disabilities as determined by the laws of the church, according to the statement by the Sacred Congregation...
...with them in private. Their Christian faith was formally attested. The President, after baptism and confirmation, was received into the congregation. His wife, a Presbyterian by childhood baptism, was received with him. The ceremony was completed at the church's 9 a.m. Sunday service, when the Eisenhowers received communion...
...preaching of its ministers, and the faith of the Reformers was based on the assurance that "God met His people in His word." Using this comparison, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, 76, longtime president of Union Theological Seminary and onetime (1943-44) Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., has written Communion Through Preaching (Scribner; $2.50), a short but striking book about the preaching sacrament of Protestantism -and how poorly a lot of Protestants understand...
When 16th century European priests arrived in southern India to introduce Christianity, they were told that a more famed Christian missionary had been there first. In the districts of Travancore and Cochin, there was already a community of Indian Christians with a tradition of loose communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The man who first converted them, the Indians said, was none other than St. Thomas the Apostle (the "Doubting Thomas"), who reputedly arrived in India aboard a Roman trading vessel...