Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At Evanston this week, the delegates of the World Council of Churches looked to their leaders to draw out of the 200-odd meetings some message for the world. There was plenty of disagreement about what the message could be, and the disagreements were well publicized. Newspapers across the U.S...
CANON OLIVER S. TOMKINS, 46, of Lincoln, England is the theological brain of Evanston. A member of the "Faith and Order Department," he drafted dozens of working papers. Born in China, the son of a clergyman, Tomkins knew the dangers of missionary work from childhood. Says he calmly: "I reckon...
Modern Techniques. "Such developments raise questions about the adequacy of traditional forms of parish life . . . The convictions and decisions of individuals in many countries are reached under the pressure of a common mental climate which . . . media of mass communication tend to create. Hence the church cannot neglect the use of...
Toward the Center. There was much theological talk, but there was much, too, that could be understood by anyone. Such were the stirring words of the Archbishop of Canterbury, read for him (he was ailing) at Soldier Field by his friend Bishop Bell of Chichester. Excerpts:
Then Yale Theology Professor Robert L. Calhoun, a Congregationalist, rose to speak for the more here-and-now point of view commonly found in the U.S. What is often called "American activism." said Calhoun, owes its origins partly to "frontier evangelism . . . among the log cabins, in the forests and prairies...