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...They passed no resolutions, came to no formal conclusions. But in their speeches and the reports of their discussion groups they affirmed a sweeping set of principles which presupposes a new society as clearly as those adopted last winter by the Church of England's great Malvern Conference (TIME...
Modify Capitalism. Toronto echoed Malvern, declared that in North America as well as in Germany and England things are in such a pickle that a solution to the unemployment problem has been found only in armament programs. "We can well say, with our fellow Christians in England: 'The system under which we have lived has been a predisposing cause of war even though those who direct and profit by it have desired peace.' " Solutions suggested: State planning, wider use of producers' and consumers' cooperatives...
Your editorial of March 11. "Liberal Liturgy", described very accurately the new "just order of society" proclaimed by the Malvern Conference of the Church of England. But in your concluding paragraph you made a slight theological error in saying that: "For a century now there has been an attempt to bring these same practical reforms into being through the medium of force rather than religion. Perhaps it will turn out eventually that the Church is a better catalyst of progress than the Communist revolution." May it not be indeed that the Church of England is identifying itself with the Communist...
...interesting that only the Catholic view of man can adequately take account of the possibility of domestic fascism. Read the Acland amendment to the Malvern Declaration to see how realistically the Church of England can generalize. It does not merely focus its eyes across the water...
...good many centuries now the Church of England has taken a passive role in the formation of government policy. Its only influence has been that of a conservative and even reactionary force. Two months ago the governors of the Church met at Malvern and formulated a set of propositions and suggestions for the post-war world which may well influence the government far more than anything the Church has done since the days of Thomas a Becket...