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...company for God. It was to be a place in which there would be no more Italians or Americans or Germans, Lutherans or Calvinists or Episcopalians-only Christians. It started in the head or the heart of a young Florentine, Tullio Vinay. He was an Italian Protestant, a Waldensian pastor...
Labor & Prayer. Vinay chose a site in the Piedmontese foothills, where his Waldensian ancestors had held out for centuries against papal persecutions.* There, in 1946, he and seven friends started to build a "community of love." They called it "Agape" (pronounced a-ga-pay)-the Greek word for brotherly love, which is translated in the English versions of the New Testament as "charity...
...Agape, as it is at the 13-year-old community at lona, off the Scottish coast (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947). This is the time in history, thinks Vinay, when cooperative manual work is the essential Christian activity, just as theology or faith was central in earlier centuries. Says Waldensian Carlo Lupo: "With all the respect we have for ecumenical councils and for doctors of theology, we must recognize that theological discussion belongs to a past state in church development. Today's religious revolution is a social transformation, not the social transformation of the Marxists, who continue to see work...
Churchmen of all faiths were beginning to suspect that the movement toward a united Protestantism might paradoxically increase the scandal of Christian disunity by making the cleavage between Protestant and Catholic sharper than ever. But others, like Italian Waldensian Leader Jean Gonnet, felt that the Vatican would be just as happy about the Protestant movement toward unity as the most ecumenically minded Protestant. Said Professor Gonnet: "Rome is well pleased to see other Christians marching towards unity, because in her opinion this will inevitably lead to a return to the fold under one sole shepherd-the Pope...
...mentioned by Moderator Virgilio Sommani in his list of faiths at whose disposal the Waldensian churches were placed was the Jewish faith. We held regular Friday night and also holiday services in the little Protestant chapel in Cerignola, and sometimes the Waldensian members would come in and watch...