Word: oxnam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the P.O.A.U. conference ended, a Roman Catholic spokesman made a fast reply. Said Msgr. John Spence, director of education for the Washington (D.C.) archdiocese, in answer to Bishop Oxnam's speech...
...windup of the program, a rally in Constitution Hall, drew a near-capacity crowd of 3,600. Speakers bore down heavily on Catholics who want state support for church schools. Said Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "One of the most important bastions of the fortress of religious liberty is the American principle of the separation of church and state. A full-scale attack upon this principle . . . has been launched by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church . . . The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in the separation of church and state . . . The question of public support for parochial education does...
...wonder if your artist realized how perfectly the bound crosses behind Bishop Oxnam's picture demonstrate the failure of many modern churches. No longer are church leaders willing to let an individual Christ on an individual cross strive to save an individual soul; rather they must concern themselves with organization...
...advised that Bishop Oxnam of Methodists does not speak for Evangelical Christianity. Our first effort is not to alleviate anti-Semitism or to hinder racial discrimination, as is the good bishop's, but to preach the gospel of salvation through the shed blood of Christ-the message of John Wesley which many Methodists and others seem to have forgotten. John Wesley preached "Ye must be born again" (John...
TIME points up this controversy very clearly: "There is a great gulf between U.S. activism and continental Europe's apparently passivist theology." Oxnam represents the conviction of the New World that man can "work out his own salvation with fear and trembling" . . . Thank you for featuring the "working" Christianity of Oxnam for a change...