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...Archbishop's outstanding achievement was his leadership of the famed Malvern Conference (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941), which marked him as the world's leading exponent of Christian social reconstruction. Reading Malvern's recommendations, Britons realized that the Church of England was trumpeting nothing less than a social revolution, could no longer be dubbed the Tory Party at Prayers...
Able to read Mene, Mene at last, the Malvern delegates unanimously voted a program for "ordering the new society" which they saw "quite evidently emerging" from the war. Its most sensational planks were...
...conferees at Malvern, and more & more to the world, it seemed as if, when the walls fell, the stone rolled away from the sepulchre and the Body which was missing had been found again...
...Garbett did not take part in the Malvern Conference. But through his sponsorship of its program and his close participation with Dr. Temple in a series of endorsements, Dr. Garbett became almost as completely identified with Malvern as was Dr. Temple. Besides, his whole ecclesiastical life had been the practice of what Malvern preached. When Dr. Temple became Archbishop of Canterbury, England's No. 1 primate, Dr. Garbett undertook the heavy burden of the Archbishopric of York, chiefly to assist Dr. Temple in carrying out the Malvern program...
...Malvern was revolutionary only in the sense that it recognized the existence of a social revolution. The problem was as plain as hunger. The world over, the masses must be provided with food, clothing, work. To provide these necessities was a duty no Christian might shirk. Not to provide them was an incitement to civil war. For, unlike Bolshevism or Fascism, Malvern's revolution did not glorify the impersonal power politics of the war of classes or the iron economic laws against whose predestined operation there can be only abject, unconditional surrender. Its proper subject was not Political...