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...Ramsey, 69, surges majestically up the aisle of his own Canterbury Cathedral, a member of the congregation says, "you feel all the power and authority of Christendom." Last week Ramsey announced that, come his 70th birthday in November, he will step down as 100th Archbishop of Canterbury. A determined ecumenist, Ramsey became in 1966 the first Cantuar to officially meet a Pope in 600 years. In avuncular fashion, he even made the swinging scene, telling his fellow clergy to stop being scandalized by topless fashions. He himself shocked his brethren in the middle of an argument about church vestments...
...then, did Activist-Ecumenist Blake lose? Because another candidate, Clinton Marsh, won. In contrast to Blake's understated style, Marsh's answers to questions rang with vigor and charisma...
Siegman goes so far as to suggest that an "intensely Christian environment can in fact make for a more traditional Jewish community"-an argument that provokes an outraged response from Ecumenist Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum in the same magazine. The U.S. has already had just such an intensely Christian environment, Tanenbaum points out, in the days when evangelical Christianity and American nationalism were considered synonymous. In that situation "Jews were second-class citizens, denied the right to vote and hold public office...
...opposed progressive education, took a strong stand against the romance between Princess Margaret and the divorced Peter Townsend, and shocked millions by asserting that man's nuclear destruction might be God's will. Despite his critical attitude toward Roman Catholic dogmatism, Fisher was an ardent ecumenist and made a precedent-setting visit in 1960 to Rome, where he met with Pope John XXIII...
Potter becomes the third man to occupy the office since the World Council was founded in 1948. Scholarly Dutchman W.A. Visser 't Hooft, one of the organization's founding fathers, held the post until 1966, when he was succeeded by noted U.S. Presbyterian Ecumenist Eugene Carson Blake. Now 65, Blake is due to retire this fall. Potter will then take up a five-year term as ecumenical spokesman for more than 250 member denominations of the World Council, including Protestants, Anglicans and Eastern Orthodox -some 400 million Christians in all. Since Protestants form the core of the organization...