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Early this year it was announced that the Evangelicals would not be represented at the Evanston Assembly of the World Council of Churches in August (as they had been at the Amsterdam Assembly in 1948). In a letter to the Christian Century, Evangelical Moderator Hadjiantoniou last week explained why. "We are facing just now a real state of persecution on the .part of the Greek Orthodox Church," wrote Hadjiantoniou. "What makes the situation still more sad and perplexing is that the initiative in this has been taken, in part at least, by people closely connected with the ecumenical movement, such...
...Formosa, the Chinese Nationalist government was reported ready to grant a passport to Wu Hsiu-huang, 16, son of the island's former governor, Dr. K. C. Wu, who now lives in vociferous exile in Evanston, Ill. It was "very good news, indeed" to Dr. Wu, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most bitter non-Communist critics, who recently accused Chiang of trying to silence him by holding young Wu as hostage...
...Protestant and Orthodox churches. At Amsterdam, in 1948, came the greatest gathering of Protestantism since the Reformation, and there, in a historic decision by representatives of 147 communions, the World Council of Churches was formed. This summer the World Council will meet again for its second Assembly in Evanston, Ill.-1,500 delegates and observers from 161 communions and 48 countries...
Unknown but Close. One of the knottiest of Protestant doctrines, to modern minds, is the one raised by the main theme this summer at Evanston: Christian eschatology-literally, "the doctrine of last things," which includes, among other things, the Second Coming and the end of the world...
...Dusen's concluding advice to Christians in a Lenten era: "American Christians [at Evanston] must come to grips with [a] term almost as unfamiliar to their ears as was the term 'ecumenical' 20 or even 10 years ago-the term 'eschatological.' Not only must they accustom their ears to the sound of the word; they must give their minds and hearts to the attempt to comprehend it and why it holds so decisive, so pivotal a place in the hope of fellow Christians in many lands and of many traditions...