Word: interchurch
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...brisk, erudite, 59-year-old Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of York. Son of an Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Temple was an Oxford don of philosophy at 23, a headmaster at 29, a bishop at 39, an archbishop at 47. A famed theologian and an ardent exponent of the ecumenical (interchurch) movement, he is likely to be first president of the still-organizing World Council of Churches. Said he at the conference...
...that will probably lead to the biggest merger in the history of U. S. Protestantism. The man: Dean Luther Allan Weigle of the Yale Divinity School. The job: presidency of the Federal Council of Churches. The merger: a fusion of the Federal Council with six other major interchurch agencies...
...McBride fluttered into radio, she had behind her an impressive career as a sob sister. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she had worked on the Ledger in Mexico, Mo., the Cleveland Press, the late New York Evening Mail. She had done work for the Interchurch World Movement, turned out articles for the Saturday Evening Post, collaborated with Prince Christopher of Greece on the history of his family. Back in the creative groove again, she has just turned out a book on her childhood called How Dear to My Heart...
...Temple, a prelate who is much more highly esteemed by world churchmen than his superior, the Archbishop of Canterbury (see p. 25), is a sober theologian, a leader in the ecumenical (interchurch) movement, with many friends in the U. S. One friend, Reinhold Niebuhr of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, lately returned from a long stay in England. Dr. Niebuhr drafted, and some of his colleagues rewrote, a statement in which, this week, the Archbishop of York's position was strongly echoed, over the signatures of 33 of the nation's most influential Protestants...
...five bodies could only get together.* As it is, they are the most sectarian of sects. Their local congregations distrust creeds, abhor ecclesiastics, are not bound by anything the Conventions say or do. Last week the Southern Baptist Convention, concluding its meeting in Oklahoma City, remained equally independent toward interchurch unity. Baptist John Benjamin Lawrence spoke for his brethren when he deplored the "vast enveloping movement which aims to tie Baptists up in a bundle with other bodies with which they have no ecclesiastical affinity." The Convention shelved for at least a year a proposal to join the slowly growing...