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...scene at Uppsala smacked more of a New Left "demo" than of a religious body in pious conference. Two student pickets who attempted a sidewalk teach-in were dragged off by Swedish cops. Some conferees slipped away to watch an underground flick replete with scenes of pot-smoking derelicts, shaggy folk singers and a minister who-in anguish at the chaos and cacophony of life in the cities-strips to the buff atop his pulpit. In other ways as well, the 701 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox delegates to the World Council of Churches' Fourth Assembly were exposed last week...
With that charge, delivered by the Rev. D. T. Niles, president of the Methodist Church of Ceylon,* the fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches opened last week in the green and gabled Swedish university town of Uppsala. The first such gathering since 1961, the session marked the 20th anniversary of the Council-and also amounted to a crossroads of sorts for the world's largest non-Catholic Christian body...
...delegates represented 232 churches with 300 million members, a total approaching Catholicism's one-half billion adherents. Despite the difficulties of rapprochement with Rome, the Council has been instrumental in fostering an unprecedented atmosphere of contact and discussion between Protestants and Catholics. The Vatican was present at Uppsala in a message from Pope Paul expressing ecumenical affirmation, and in the form of 15 Catholics invited as nonvoting observers. The Council has also attempted to spur Christians into doing more about the ills of this world; its 1966 Geneva Conference on Church and Society, for example, stands as a landmark...
...mood of the delegates at Uppsala attested to the fact that their grand experiment in Christian action has come up against serious problems. Paradoxically, many are the result of the World Council's own visionary initiatives. A fissure has opened within the body between younger leaders, who want the Council to move more aggressively in social action, and more conservative elements. Notable on the conservative side are the Orthodox churches, most of which were admitted to the WCC at its last assembly, and whose 140 voting delegates at Uppsala (of a total of 750) represented the most powerful single...
Rods of Anqer. Well aware of the underground challenge, the assembly chose as its theme "All Things New," and its opening ceremonies showed a temperately turned-on effort to bridge the gulf between the traditional and the revolutionary. As the richly robed churchmen filed into Uppsala's twin-spired Gothic cathedral, trumpeters, oboists, French horn and trombone players scattered throughout the church sounded a hauntingly dissonant hymn by Danish Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer...