Word: ecumenists
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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...
...Vatican II, Küng has earned both liberal praise and conservative censure for his provocative criticisms of his church. Last week, wearing his usual necktie instead of a Roman collar, Küng arrived in the U.S. for his first extended visit in five years. An enthusiastic ecumenist, he will teach courses in divine justification and the sacraments during the spring semester at Manhattan's Protestant Union Theo logical Seminary. Characteristically, Küng came armed with a quiver of new questions for Catholicism...
Ecumenism & English. Although a personal friend to clerics of many faiths, Spellman was, at best, a reluctant ecumenist. Nonetheless more than 100 Catholic bishops and almost 50 Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish clerics were present at the cathedral. Among them was Archbishop lakovos, Orthodox primate of North and South America, who was invited to sit on an elevated, canopied throne in the sanctuary. It was the first time that an Orthodox prelate had been so honored in New York...
...process, a new scientific diagnostician has been born. Not just a city planner, not just an educator, not just a politician, he is some of each-and something more. The "urbanologist" aspires to be a student of the entire city, an ecumenist of the metropolis, whose concerns go beyond brick and mortar to budgets and laws, souls and sensibilities. Just as the word urbanology is a cross between Latin and Greek, the science-or is it an art?-is a melange of many disciplines...