Word: episcopalianism
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...Ambrose Reeves, exiled Episcopalian Bishop of Johannesburg, and an outspoken critic of Apartheid, will speak Sunday at 8 p.m. in Burr A on the racial policy of the South African government...
America's new form of Christianity is what Episcopalian Winter calls the "organization church"-the church that is centered not in its creed, or its liturgy, or its pastor, but in activities and organizations ranging from nursery schools to Softball teams. And the organization church has followed the organization man to the suburbs-or, rather, pursued him. "Denominational leaders have watched the new residential areas surrounding the central cities with greedy eyes. These are largely middle-and upper-class residential areas; they have adequate resources for constructing church buildings; their residents are responsive to religious programs; in fact, denominational...
Groups favoring aid to private schools can cite some respected constitutional authority. Harvard's Arthur Sutherland, an Episcopalian and Republican, shrugs off Kennedy's distinction between loans and grants, argues that existing private school aid is ample precedent for the bishops' request. Says he: "If I were President. I could think of no clear constitutional rea son to veto a bill aiding church and private schools." The National Defense Act permits loans to parochial schools for the purchase of teaching aids in science classes. The National School Lunch Act grants money to states to buy food...
...challenge for more precise etymological definitions of our faith comes from materialism, secularism and Communism. Imposed creedal orthodoxy will not suffice. I love the creeds. I recite them, and I think I have overcome honestly the intellectual obstacles they raise. But when anyone tries to tell an Episcopalian that he is unequivocally - which means without variety of interpretation - committed to a particular creed. I can only remind him of the wisdom of Alfred North Whitehead who said, 'Religions commit suicide when they find their imperatives in their dogmas...
...Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the huge bronze doors of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, and a marble Last Supper in Pittsburgh's East Liberty Presbyterian Church; of congestive heart failure; in his rural Sandy Hook, Conn. home. A spry, chain-smoking Episcopalian, Angel munched on gingerbread cookies as he fashioned his models in clay, contentedly resigned himself to the traditional anonymity of his art, thought modern art "merely a passing phase...