Word: presbyterianism
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Appraising the chances of the plan of church unity proposed by Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and approved by the denomination's General Assembly last month (TIME Cover, May 26), Dr. Van Dusen criticized Episcopal High Churchman John Heuss, rector of Manhattan's old and opulent Trinity Church. The Blake proposal, said Dr. Heuss, "too easily brushes aside the formidable problems involved," notably the need for approval by the decennial Lambeth Conference. But, said Van Dusen, the Lambeth Conference has specifically approved the plan on which the Blake proposal...
...Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk. General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A...
Stained-glass windows are usually reserved for saints, angels or devils. Seldom do living people make the grade. However, twice I have been commissioned to depict in stained glass Presbyterian Eugene Blake as president of the National Council of Churches. The Redford Avenue Presbyterian Church in Detroit and the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth both have him, without halo, wings or forked tail...
Garden Grove Orthodox Presbyterian Church Garden Grove, Calif...
EPISCOPALIANS: The Episcopal Unity Commission announced that it would submit to the church's Detroit convention in September a resolution agreeing to the Presbyterian call for discussions toward the four-way merger. But the Episcopal Diocese of Maine frowned at the whole idea, asked further study on the ground that there is "much confusion and anxiety" on the subject. If Episcopalians were going to do any uniting, the Maine diocese went on in a formal resolution, the Christians they ought to be doing it with are those in the Eastern Orthodox Church, who, like the Episcopalians, are "catholic" rather...