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...rise in the church was scholarly and speedy. The son of a Cambridge mathematics don (a Congregationalist preacher who joined the Church of England the year before his death and was baptized by his son), Ramsey studied at Repton. His headmaster: Dr. Fisher, who still calls him "my boy." He was ordained in 1928, twelve years later became canon of Durham Cathedral and professor of divinity at Durham University. Another dozen years and he was Bishop of Durham. Five years ago, he was appointed to the No. 2 post in the Anglican Church: Archbishop of York. He has been married...
...Preacher & Teacher. Archbishop Ramsey also disagrees with Archbishop Fisher on the desirability of making adultery a criminal offense, and demurs from Dr. Fisher's opinion that God may well want the human race to wipe itself out. "I am not a pacifist," he told students at Oxford last year, "but it is difficult to see today how there could be a just war. If the choice came between blowing up the world and being overrun by Communism, I still don't think we have the right to blow up the world...
...When the emphasis of discussion falls too heavily on the limitations of policy, I recall from early childhood the admonition of the circuit preacher: 'Pray as if it were up to God; work as if it were...
...United Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. and onetime president (1954-57) of the National Council of Churches, Dr. Blake was in San Francisco for the National Council's fifth triennial general assembly. He had been invited by California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike to be guest preacher at the pulpit of Grace Cathedral. When he sat down to think out his sermon about six weeks ago, it turned into a preachment that may well be a landmark in Protestant history...
Quest or Quarry? The White Stone is a sequel to Coccioli's Heaven and Earth (TIME, July 28, 1952), in which Don Ardito grew in power as a preacher while losing his capacity to love his fellow humans. That novel ended with an act of expiation in which the priest persuaded a German officer in World War II to execute him for acts committed by others. The present novel begins by reducing that sacrifice to irony. Perhaps as a symbolic agent for the humbling of Don Ardito's spiritual pride, the German officer stages a mock execution...