Word: fellowships
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...baptism or the laying on of hands. St. Augustine of Hippo (354/430) taught that the gift of the Holy Spirit could only be present in the unity of the church, that outsiders could not receive Him. But Martin Luther (1483-1546) took no account at all of the "fellowship of the Spirit." The Holy Ghost, he thought, descended upon one man and not another with no rational explanation ("Faith killeth reason"), and to individuals rather than to groups...
...Fellowship of the Spirit. The Christians who have set greatest store by the Holy Spirit have been the post-Reformation sects, such as the Baptists, Quakers, Mennonites and Moravians. Anglican Dewar is too much of a high churchman to approve of them. As a prime example, he cites Britain's George Fox (1624-1691), founder of the Society of Friends, and takes him to task for not appreciating the personality of the Holy Spirit ("he constantly refers to Him as 'it' "), and for having no "doctrine of the Church...
World Council membership in the past was based on belief in Jesus Christ as God and Saviour; the Central Committee added the Trinity. Its full text: "The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfil together their common calling, to the glory of the one God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit...
...course," chimed in the Rev. Pearce Higgins, vicar of Putney and vice chairman of the Church Fellowship for Psychical Studies, "the spirit is not a little fellow with horns and a tail. But if the human spirit is immortal-the basis of Christian teaching-why should not some spirits feel lost after death and come to inhabit another body?" In any case, he went on, "an evil-or, as I prefer to call it, 'low-grade'-spirit should always be prayed for with great compassion." Vicar Higgins' gentle formula for exorcism: "Depart into the realm of light...
Espresso-Shop Idealism. A kind of D.P. poet, wearing moccasins and no tie, Herridge went to Northwestern, once held a poetry fellowship at the University of California. Leaving academe astride the flaring rationalization that "one should live at the center of experience of his time," he hit the road. He loafed, worked on road gangs, on farms, on beaches as a lifeguard. He published stories in Scribner's Magazine and the American Mercury. Following his Steinbeck period came his Hemingway period. Herridge enlisted in the Army Air Corps, flew missions over southern Europe. After the war, he padded around...