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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allergic Reaction. Pike first stated his views in the Christian Century, was attacked by 15 Episcopal ministers in Georgia and critics elsewhere, then turned on his critics in a pastoral letter. Pike placed heavy emphasis on the freedom of the Anglican Communion. "We, unlike most principal Christian traditions, are not bound to a particular set of concepts or form of words . . . It is true that we have a rather skimpy set of propositions, printed in the back of the Prayer Book, called the Articles of Religion; but they are not a Confession of Faith; they represent the allergic reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Myth in the Gospel? | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

When clergy demand laws against gambling in a state where it is legal, or withhold communion to prevent discrimination, it becomes ludicrous to pretend that religion and government are absolutely divisible. American religious freedom rose out of such a notion, but it is only valid compared to states with established churches...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: 'Congress Shall Make No Law...' | 1/25/1961 | See Source »

...Horace W.B. Donegan of New York) and Presiding Bishop Arthur C. Lichtenberger, Rector Kempsell announced that any member of his parish "who has in any way, by word, or in thought, or in deed, acquiesced" in banning the boy "is no longer welcome to receive Holy Communion at this altar-at God's altar-in this parish until such time as he has worked out his own peace with God in his own way." Suggested ways: general confession at prayer, or individual confession to Rector Kempsell or any other Episcopal minister. "In Christ," said Pastor Kempsell, quoting St. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christ & the Golf Club | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

TIME did an excellent job on the characteristics of the major Protestant denominations considering reunion but made one major error. The Methodist Church does not have a purely memorial view of the Communion and never has held such a view. Article 18 of the Methodist Articles of Religion states clearly: "The bread which we break is a partaking of the body of Christ; and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ." As further explanation, it reads: "The body of Christ is given, taken and eaten in the Supper, only after a heavenly and spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 6, 1961 | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Thus the Methodists agree with the Presbyterian and Protestant Episcopal churches' concept of the Communion, a basic factor in our conversations toward unity. (THE REV.) WILLIAM BLAIR GOULD Wesley Foundation University of Nebraska Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 6, 1961 | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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