Word: bromley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, allowing the Methodists no chance to feel too complacent, told them that two important threats are facing the church: Communism and Roman Catholicism...
...eight days at Wellesley, Congregationalists debated resolutions and listened to speeches from their own and visiting churchmen. They heard New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, railing against the Red-hunting temper of the times, urge that "Americans should call a halt before hysteria demands that sermons be submitted to Congressmen before delivery." They were reminded by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr that Christians "frequently wrongly and self-righteously" blame modern ills upon secularism without confessing that "some of the achievements of democratic society are secular in origin and were attained in the teeth of Christian opposition." They passed...
Said solemn Charles Ewaskio, 31, assistant professor of physics and a Catholic for slightly more than two years: "There's no doubt that [Methodist Bishop] G. Bromley Oxnam is right about us ... It has been made very clear that unbaptized babies don't go to heaven...
...have been wondering if the Rev. Dr. Guy Shipler intends to honor Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam for his militant efforts to prevent Roman Catholic children from using public school buses? . . . The men who set out to destroy Roman Catholicism, in effect, destroy Christianity as well, because when the united Church of Rome falls there will be no hope for any other Christian church, especially Protestantism ... In this I speak as a Protestant and not as a Roman Catholic...
Nothing Aggressive. At first, it seemed that no understanding or agreement would be possible. But after four hard days of Chairman Dulles' painstaking diplomacy, in which he was assisted by New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Southern Ohio's Episcopal Bishop Henry W. Hobson and others, a recommendation came forth. It bore none of the ringing affirmations that distinguished the conference's meetings of 1942, when it called for a postwar world organization, or of 1945, when it called for the Christian concepts of justice, law and human rights in the U.N. charter...