Word: sacramentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assurance that "God met His people in His word." Using this comparison, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, 76, longtime president of Union Theological Seminary and onetime (1943-44) Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., has written Communion Through Preaching (Scribner; $2.50), a short but striking book about the preaching sacrament of Protestantism -and how poorly a lot of Protestants understand...
...revived Lutheran confession, unlike the Roman Catholic sacrament, is voluntary and not regarded as essential to salvation. Any Christian, the synod declared, whether ordained or not, may hear another's confession and grant absolution; if the penitent believes and is genuinely sorry for his sins, he is truly forgiven...
...part of the function of the Christian minister to be a keeper of the door, to discriminate, to let in or to exclude, provided the criterion be Christ's own . . . The prevailing interpretation of the Christian minister as a gullible, affable sacrament-monger has served the Church ill for three generations...
...virtually abdicated. He has handed over to the Church, and particularly to the pope . . . all things relating to the affairs of His Church upon earth . . . The Roman Church, to all intents and purposes, patronizes and controls Jesus Christ, whose life and influence it mediates to the faithful through the sacrament of the Mass, and in other ways...
...This is a very interesting circumstance of time & place. Today, I am 27 years a priest, 42 years a Jesuit. Today, I baptized an infant and gave the last sacrament to an old woman. Today, as I write this, I am gazing at tomorrow, 2½ miles across the straits separating the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. A Soviet lookout is observing my Little Diomede mission as I pick him out in my binoculars. We are worlds apart...