Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago last week, 145 theologians, church historians, priests and ministers gathered for the organizational meeting of the brand-new North American Academy of Ecumenists. For most of the participants, it was like a college reunion. Many had spent the previous week at an interfaith Colloquium on evangelism at Notre Dame. Others were veterans of the series of theological dialogues carried on by the Roman Catholic hierarchy with various U.S. Protestant churches. Still others had attended talks at the World Center for Liturgical Studies in Florida, the Packard Manse retreat house in Massachusetts, the Jesuits' John LaFarge Institute in Manhattan...
Since ecumenism has become an accepted part of church life, all too many exponents of church unity have discovered to their horror that they spend most of their time attending interfaith meetings. According to Jesuit Theologian Daniel O'Hanlon of California's Alma College, so many interfaith organizations and dialogues are under way that there "may be a need for an ecumenical movement to bring the ecumenical committees together...
Wider Echelons. The great danger of so much clubbiness, believes Murray, is that interfaith discussions "are in danger of spinning off into the blue" and becoming the private province of an ecumenical clique. He believes that ecumenical discussion, hitherto largely limited to a cadre of top theologians, needs to bring in significantly wider echelons of the church at large. "What we need," he says, "are parish priests, members of the bureaucracy, people who can give practical application to what goes on at these meetings. The discussions tend not to run down but to go round and round...
Since the Paulists' ouster, delegations from their parish have met twice with the bishop, who refuses to reverse the decision. What most disturbs supporters of the four priests is their conviction that Gorman's explanation, whether justified or not, skirts another reason for the firing: the interfaith popularity of the Paulists had proved too much for the 75-year-old bishop and other ardent Romanists in his diocese...
Protestants are also stepping up the dialogue with Mecca. The World Council of Churches supports a continuing program of grass-roots-level contact with Moslems. It recently conducted an interfaith conference in Ceylon that was attended by Moslems; in Africa the Council helps finance seven minister-scholars who are specifically assigned "to inform African Christians about their Islamic neighbors...