Word: intercommunion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual after a joint communion service, there was outcry last week which suggested that such services still impede rather than aid the ecumenical movement. The High -Church Episcopal Living Church, in a 3,000-word editorial, riddled intercommunion as being contrary to the Prayer Book, disturbing to the faith of the faithful, fostering the idea that the Church is "just another sect," denying the sacrificial quality of the celebration, tending toward sacrilege, admitting that human fellowship can be a substitute for "Divine Society." Said the Living Church: "We ask for . . . sympathetic understanding in our disagreement with those who would make...
More actively and practically interested in Christian unity than any other great church in the world, the Church of England five years ago moved toward rapprochement with the Orthodox Eastern Patriarchate of Constantinople (TIME, Jan. 11, 1932). Next objectives toward establishing intercommunion among all the Catholic churches which reject the Pope's authority and believe broadly in the same dogmas were the other Orthodox Churches of Europe and Asia Minor. Rumania, with 11,000,000 Orthodox, has the largest and most influential church. To Bucharest two summers ago were invited a party of Anglican bishops and theologians, to thresh...
...arguing it, quoting canon law and rubric. Last week the talk was for the first time public, at an annual Church Congress in Evanston. Ill.-an unofficial, argumentative gathering which lays down no laws but permits high, low and broad churchmen to air their views. Bishop Scarlett defended his intercommunion service, pointing out that Jesus Christ was no sectarian. Leader of the opposing side was another Episcopal Johnson-Colorado's popular, high-church Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, called ''The Tame Lion." Bishop Johnson growled about jellyfish and other spineless creatures who make compromises, start conflicts...
...again is nothing more complex practically, nor less majestic theologically, than to achieve that Unity towards which all sects are working. The Pope wants Unity, too, but expects all the sects to "return" to his fold on Rome's terms. The method by which Anglican-Orthodox unity and intercommunion have been sought is one of mutual respect. Each church has long performed acts of hospitality toward the other, such as inviting visiting prelates to officiate at services, or caring temporarily for stranded parishioners of the other faith. After the Lambeth Conference of 1930, where doctrinal differences were threshed thin...