Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This brought orthodox, conservative doctors to the edge of their chairs and started the hottest argument of a hot week in Karlsruhe. Niehans, whom some of his colleagues called arrogant and authoritarian, laid down strict rules for his method. The younger the animal from which glands or cells were taken, the better. This meant using calves, piglets, or other young animals still unborn-taken from dams slaughtered just before they were due to litter. (At one time his patients had to go to slaughterhouses for treatment with fresh tissues, but a Heidelberg chemical company has found a way to preserve...
When it came to adopting the assembly's message on Faith and Order, with its confession of "sinful division," the Orthodox churches refused to go along. Said Greek Orthodox Archbishop Michael: "We cannot speak of the repentance of the church, which is intrinsically holy and unerring . . . We believe that the return of the communions to ... the pure, unchanged and common heritage of the forefathers . . . shall alone produce the desired reunion . . . The Holy Orthodox Church alone has preserved in full and intact 'the faith once delivered to the saints.' " But no one thought that this generally foreseen dissent...
...fashionable Boston parishes but is also a pioneer fighter for Christian unity; tough old (74) Bishop Otto Dibelius of Germany's Evangelical Church, part of whose diocese is in the East zone and who has time and again defied the Communists; Archbishop Michael 62, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, whose flock numbers some 6,500,000 communicants; Theologian John Baillie, 68, onetime Moderator of the Church of Scotland, a Highlander who is an authority on moral philosophy; Metropolitan Juhanon Mar Thoma of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, India...
...Challenge of Communism. Greek Orthodox Layman Charles Malik, Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. and head of one of the assembly discussion groups, called for the World Council to produce "a ringing, positive message-one of reality, of truth and of hope." Communism, he continued, "exposes the inadequacy, if not indeed the bankruptcy, of the Western-imperialistic and smug-Christian approach of the past ... At the present degree of spiritual impotence ... it is only a matter of time before the whole of Asia and Africa, and maybe even Europe, will be engulfed by Communism...
Main Theme. During the first week 15 discussion groups will consider the main theme, "Christ-the Hope of the World," then gather in plenary session to formulate a message. Agreement will come hard; theologians are roughly divided between orthodox eschatologists (mainly European) who see the Christian hope as Christ's Second Coming at world's end, and the more liberal and activist brand (mainly in the U.S.) who hope for Christ's help in the here...