Word: ecumenist
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...tragic," said Bishop Dun, who as a child overcame a congenital defect that warped his limbs, only to lose a leg to polio later. "It is only the love of God that redeems the human tragedy." A strong supporter of the World Council of Churches, Dun was an ardent ecumenist...
...story about a Maugham-like novelist writing a book about a wicked Pope who ruined the church. The wicked Pope is, of all people, John XXIII. Burgess, who comes of a North England family that has been Catholic for centuries, regards John as a historic disaster. An outspoken anti-ecumenist, he thinks John's popularizing destroyed "the intellectual integrity and dignity of the church...
...ecumenist long before the word became popular. At Vatican II, he attracted worldwide attention when his speech in support of the council document on religious liberty for all -including atheists-was hailed by the assembled churchmen with a burst of forbidden applause. Then, typically, he walked out on the council when it went on too long, claiming that he had more important things to do in Boston. For these reasons-and for many others -Gushing has become perhaps the best known of the American cardinals...
When Lyndon Johnson attended Mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral recently, Washington's Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle referred to the President in his sermon as "the chief ecumenist in this ecumenical age." Although a member of the Disciples of Christ, Johnson has worshiped at Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Christian and Lutheran churches as the spirit moves him. Religiously speaking, things will not change much in January. Richard Nixon belongs to the Society of Friends, but he has spent his Sunday mornings at a wide variety of Protestant churches...
There are several other major theological questions that Schleiermacher made pioneering attempts to answer. As one of the first thinkers to study the cultural setting of Biblical writings, he was the forerunner of modern critical scholarship on Scripture. Convinced that denominationalism had outlived its usefulness, he was an embryonic ecumenist and worked to achieve a merger between Germany's Reformed and Lutheran churches. "People are learning," says Schubert Ogden of Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology, "that Schleiermacher was the first great theologian to articulate a reinterpretation of Christian tradition in reference to modern life...