Word: ecumenists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote with their own endorsement of Harris, but the conflict is not likely to end with her installation, probably in February. The advent of women as bishops, for one thing, will delay any hoped-for reunion between Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism -- by several hundred years, reckons one Anglican ecumenist.* More ! immediate is the serious split that will occur within the 60 million-member Anglican Communion. One side is ready to recognize Harris and subsequent women bishops and to accept the priests they ordain. The other side will refuse. Matters are bound to get even messier as time goes...
...placed more emphasis on such complex social problems as racism and political oppression than on traditional spiritual concerns. Last week in Geneva the council took a step toward a more tranquil course with the election of a new General Secretary: Emilio Castro, 57, a Methodist minister from Uruguay. Dutch Ecumenist Willem Visser 't Hooft, 83, the organization's first chief officer, said that Castro "is more of a bridge builder between those who want to emphasize the role of the church in the world and those who favor the evangelical approach...
DIED. Charles Parlin, 83, former co-president of the World Council of Churches and former president of the World Methodist Council; in New York City. A staunch ecumenist, Parlin was the first American layman to be named to the six-member presidium of the World Council of Churches, where he served from 1961 to 1968. A lawyer, he defended Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam when the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated charges in 1953 that Oxnam had a Communist Party affiliation...