Word: evanston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for the superb report [Sept. 6] on Evanston . . . Your summary highlights much of that digestible bread of life which can nourish us all and strengthen hope in very practical respects. Thank God for the outcome and promise of the second World Assembly...
Congratulations on your excellent cover story on the Evanston World Council Assembly and the Archbishop of Canterbury . . . Few men so well epitomize in their own persons the ideals and spirit of ecumenical Christianity, and none moved more helpfully through the Evanston Assembly. But TIME'S stated reason for its choice-that "the worldwide Anglican Communion [is] the exemplary ecumenical church"-is not wholly convincing. If what TIME means is that the Anglican Communion embraces extremes in doctrine, polity and politics, that is a fact . . . On the other hand, if TIME is echoing the claim, so dear to many Anglicans...
...prayed the new honorary president of the World Council of Churches, Britain's Bishop George Kennedy Allen Bell of Chichester, at the closing service of the Evanston assembly. It was well that he did, for the member churches of the World Council, though closer together than ever before, were still a long way from true unity...
Freedom & Capitalism. Late last week the debate at Evanston reached perhaps its most significant topic: "The Responsible Society." At Amsterdam six years ago, the Council had published a report that condemned in the same breath both Communism and "laissez-faire capitalism." At Evanston last week, the Council made a sharp and heartening about-face. One of the men most responsible for the change was Delegate Charles Taft, who set up his own committee soon after Amsterdam to draft a more constructive message. Similar discussions were held in Britain, France and The Netherlands. The report...
...most important Evanston discussions was devoted to the problem of how the churches in the 20th century should go about spreading the Word. The resulting message might have been more shoptalk for clergymen. Actually, it is addressed also to laymen-"missionaries of Christ in every secular sphere"-and forcefully defines the job of being a Christian. Excerpts...