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...major address on the meaning of council membership, General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft raised the question of whether the council could be described in ecclesiological terms, although he admitted that the council was "neither the Church nor a church nor the superchurch. The World Council is, by its very nature, the servant of churches" that find in membership "a deeper understanding of the nature of the church and find new opportunities to manifest its true meaning...
...number of Protestant groups in the new and lively Church of South India. Other Anglican provinces are considering the possibility of similar united churches in Ceylon, Pakistan and North India, Japan and Australia. In the U.S., Episcopal leaders are continuing to discuss the Blake-Pike proposals for a new superchurch encompassing six major Protestant bodies. The Church of England has before it a plan for reunion with English Methodists...
...much defending bespeaks a lot of attacking, and the N.C.C. has indeed become a prime target of the stepped-up offensive of such ultraconservative fringers as the John Birch Society and the Circuit Riders, who accuse the National Council of 1) being a kind of superchurch run by a clerical coterie of fuzzy-minded pinkos and Red infiltrators, 2) speaking for its members without consulting them, and 3) making pronouncements in favor of admitting Red China to the U.N., opposing the Bricker Amendment, and abolishing the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...Reconstructionists want to unify U.S. Judaism, not through a new superchurch, but on the basis of "common interests, common historical memories and a sense of common destiny." Dr. Kaplan and his followers have proposed replacing old style, part-time synagogue schools and rigidly organized congregations with modern Jewish parochial schools and Jewish centers, where Jewish cultural activities and social work are as important as attendance at synagogue. "If Jews are to worship together," he says, "they must have other interests in common besides worship...
Full of zeal and optimism, in San Francisco ten years ago Methodists of four of the city's biggest churches-Central, California Street, Wesley, Howard Street-sold their properties, pooled $800,000 to form a superchurch which they called Temple Methodist. Their optimism the Methodists expressed by building a 27-story hotel, highest on the Pacific Coast, at Leavenworth & McAllister streets in downtown San Francisco. The William Taylor Hotel, with a cathedral-like, 1,300-seat church concealed in its second, third and fourth floors, would support Temple Church, everyone felt, retire its $1,550,000 in first mortgage...