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Arriving in Australia in 1958 to become dean of Brisbane's cathedral, the Very Rev. William Pye Baddeley,* 46, announced: "I believe the Church of England is big and broad enough for all shades of thought.'' He then proved how broad his own thought could...
...Roman Catholic Church is notoriously chary of permitting prayer with non-Catholics; so are conservative Protestants such as the Missouri Synod Lutherans (membership: 2,387,292). At a Lutheran conference on doctrinal unity in Thiensville, Wis. last week, the Rev. Martin H. Franzmann, professor of New Testament interpretation at the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary, warned against closing the door entirely to joint praying: "May we not, by too facile and too simple a ruling concerning joint prayer, become guilty of crushing the bruised reed and quenching the smoldering wick, by making the names 'Confessional...
Explained the council's director, the Rev. Dr. Dan M. Potter: "Catholics and Jews often carry something identifying their faith so that the right kind of clergyman can be summoned in an emergency. There is no reason why Protestants should not have the same. Then, too, Protestants are frequently called upon to stand up and be identified in our social life, civic world or political life...
Unique Man. In reply, the Rev. Dr. Mascall is prepared to accept the victory of the Darwinian theory of evolution. But he does not think the story ends there. Biologist Huxley, he says, has overlooked the significance of two "striking conclusions" of biology that are of great importance to theology. The first: man, as an intelligent being, is unique on earth. The second: "With the appearance of an intelligent being, evolution as generally understood . . . has virtually come to an end, or, to state the position in a different way, an entirely new mode of evolution has come into being...
Died. The Right Rev. Edward Lambe Parsons, 92, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of California from 1924 until retirement in 1941, outspoken advocate of uniting the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches; after being ill with pneumonia; in San Francisco...