Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In their chalet headquarters at Geneva last week, 14 top leaders of the World Council of Churches met for one of the most exciting meetings in the council's ten-year history. Cause of the stir: Pope John's dramatic announcement of an ecumenical council in 1961 or...
Geneva corridor talk brought some sharp if still baffled evaluation of the Pope's motives in calling the Rome meeting. Germany's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius hopefully felt that the Pope might be acknowledging the World Council's strength (171 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches in 53...
MY FELLOW DEVILS, by L. P. Hartley (413 pp.; British Book Centre; $3.95), introduces wealthy, prim and Protestant Margaret Pennefather, who hesitates when glamorous Colum Maclnnes proposes marriage. Not only is he a Roman Catholic but his origins are vague; though he has gone to an approved public school, Nick...
Insurmountable Barriers. The same ancient obstacle is a roadblock to unity with those other "separated communities"-the Protestants. Pope John is said to be sounding out Protestant leaders on the possibilities of having Protestant representatives at the ecumenical council as "observers." This in itself would be a significant step in...
Said President Marc Boegner of the Federation of Protestant Churches of France: "There are barriers humanly insurmountable . . . But it is no less true that a radically new climate has developed in the course of the last decades in the relations of the great Christian confessions among themselves." In the U.S...