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...such ecumenical exploration has the hearty approval of Michael Ramsey. "No one can even hint at what the timetable for Christian unity will be," he said last week. "But of course I believe it right that all of Christianity should one day be united. And I feel sure that reunion with Rome will one day come, though it is fair to say that both we and Rome will be a good deal changed by then...
Beyond the Fringe. At first glance, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Michael Ramsey, 100th to govern at Canterbury, may seem like something left out of Beyond the Fringe. "He's one continuous anecdote," says a clerical friend. "He looks like a character, and he knows...
...said to be "the world's youngest octogenarian." With his wigwagging ginger eyebrows, gaitered waddle and "rah-ther"-studded speech, Ramsey is a ripe continuation of England's tradition of clerical eccentrics. He is the type of man who finds mud puddles appearing mysteriously in his path; his bulky purple cassock always seems ever so slightly askew. No one laughs. For warmhearted, avuncular Archbishop Ramsey also exudes the wisdom of a scholar and a deep-rooted faith, and seems every inch what he is in fact if not in name: patriarch of his arm of Christendom...
...hard now to imagine Ramsey as anything but an archbishop. Yet as a student at Cambridge's Magdalene College, where his father, a mathematics don, was president, Ramsey was an articulate Liberal and toyed with the thought of a political career. He was graduated with a first in theology and a disappointing second in classics-possibly because so much of his energies went into extracurricular affairs. One of them, he told a startled dinner gathering on his U.S. trip last year, was membership in a club "which met once a year for dinner. The high point of the dinner...
After Cambridge, Ramsey entered Cuddesdon College, a theological seminary near Oxford, and began his rapid and seemingly effortless rise to the top rank of the Established Church. He served for two years as a deacon and priest in a Liverpool slum parish before moving on to more gracious livings in Lincoln, Boston, Durham and Cambridge. His first theological writings-The Gospel and the Catholic Church, The Resurrection of Christ, The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ-earned him applause in churchly reviews and a promotion to Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Then 45, he already looked...