Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (34 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox Churches), the Rev. Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg-East High School, Minneapolis, Minn...
...easy meeting, but it was a good one," said General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches, as the council's tenth annual Central Committee meeting in Rhodes adjourned last week. The meeting was good for its air-clearing exchanges between Protestant and Orthodox delegates -and even, offstage, with the Roman Catholic observers to Rhodes (TIME, Aug. 31). It was also hard because it did not produce the one big thing the W.C.C. had hoped for: a real breakdown of the barriers separating the Protestant and Orthodox churches...
...Orthodox delegates held out to the end against the proposed merger between the W.C.C. and the International Missionary Council. Though they did not actually try to defeat the measure, they abstained from the vote that tentatively approved the plan, pending formal action by the W.C.C. General Assembly in New Delhi in 1961. Nevertheless, the friendly offices of pro-western Orthodox delegates made many Protestants more tolerant of Orthodoxy's ancient position. "It's a miracle that the Greek Church exists at all," said British-born Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India. "It's only...
Repercussions of the Rhodes meeting were felt even in Rome, where some newspapers printed exaggerated accounts of an informal gathering between Orthodox delegates and the Roman Catholic observers in the early stages of the meeting. Bearded Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, which would be most involved in any reconciliation talks, turned the damper on by describing the meeting at Rhodes as little different from other contacts in past years between Roman Catholic and non-Roman Catholic scholars. He denied that the Vatican was planning a full-dress conference with Orthodox leaders...
What makes the council so anxious for conversation is concern that Eastern Orthodoxy may yet swing toward Rome. Protestants worry that Pope John XXIII intended to invite Orthodox, but not Protestant, delegates to his Ecumenical Council in 1961 (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week the Catholics took pains to allay the fears-at least for the present. At an informal conference. Pere Christophe Jean Dumont, head of a five-man Catholic contingent, explained that the Pope's first announcement had been misinterpreted; none but Roman Catholic bishops were ever to have been invited. Later, though, Pere Dumont tossed...