Word: fellowships
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...time he became a Lutheran preacher at 24, Albert Schweitzer had already begun to question orthodox Christian doctrine and to hedge on the divinity of Christ. Last week, from its Boston headquarters, the Unitarian Church of the Larger Fellowship (which ministers to isolated believers by mail) announced somewhat uncertainly that the 86-year-old jungle doctor, who won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, had accepted "honored membership" in Unitarian ranks. Was Schweitzer renouncing Lutheranism? His own eclectic exegesis: "For a long time now I have had connections with the Unitarian Church. Yet there is no question of my breaking with...
...from Visser 't Hooft perhaps the most brilliant single performance of his life-an illuminating example of how creeds are written. It took place in a Leningrad hotel, where he was breakfasting with an Orthodox delegation. At the time the constitutional definition of the World Council was: "A fellowship of churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour." The Russians complained that this definition overlooked the trinitarian basis of Christianity prized by Orthodox churches...
...World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Holy Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfill together their common calling to the glory of one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit...
Visser 't Hooft's stern Dutch face reflects warmth and good fellowship over a drink or at the staff's daily 15-minute tea party, but the ship he runs at Geneva is taut. He is capable of festive foolery: at an office party each St. Nicholaas Eve (Dec. 5), he sings a song consisting of good-natured personal gibes at the staff. He travels plenty. "If I hold any kind of a record," he says, "it is for attending international conferences. I wonder...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art, came upon Lasansky in Argentina, where the artist was born 47 years ago. Lasansky was then in charge of two provincial art schools; Taylor was so impressed with his work that he arranged to have him come to the U.S. on a Guggenheim fellowship. Once in New York, Lasansky decided that he "didn't want to go back to Perón," so he sent for his wife and children. For a few months he spent his time looking at every one of the 150,000 old-master prints in the Met's collection...