Word: synodical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firm foundations for Protestantism's new trend were laid at the Oxford and Edinburgh conferences of 1937, which gathered the most comprehensive assemblage of official church representatives in 400 years. In 1939 the three major denominations of U.S. Methodism merged into one church; in 1940 the Evangelical Synod of North America and the Reformed Church officially united. In 1942 the American and United Lutheran churches recognized a "fellowship of pulpit and altar," stopped just short of organic union. Recently the U.S. Quakers healed their 119-year-old Hicksite-Orthodox schism (TIME, Nov. 18). Negotiations are currently under way between...
Before the Full Synod of the Convocation of York, the Most Reverend and Right .Honorable Cyril Forster Gar-bett spoke his liberal, 71-year-old mind. His subject: the marriage of Anglicans and Roman Catholics. Britain's tall, second-ranking prelate found nothing good in the conditions imposed by the Roman church on such unions...
Germany's traditional and somber Repentance Day, almost forgotten under the Nazis, was celebrated with special fervor this year. Portly, bald Theology Professor Heinrich Vogel of the University of Berlin wrote a special prayer for the occasion. In the Evangelical churches (about 1,500) of Berlin and Brandenburg synod, German heads bowed piously to its words...
Even after the Bolshevik Revolution the North American church* did not deny the general principle of its subordination to the patriarchate of Moscow, but from then on the church actually practiced independence-after almost 125 years of filial allegiance to the Russian Synod...
After U.S. recognition of Russia (1933), the Russian Synod demanded a pledge of loyalty to the Soviets, promptly suspended the North American church when it was refused. Recently Russia's new primate, Patriarch Alexei, had a new try. But in his ukase was a familiar clause: the North American church must abstain "from political activities directed against the U.S.S.R...