Word: churchmanship
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With such currents swirling about, the U.S. bishops in 1983 authorized the preparation of the still pending pastoral letter. Even in these days of participatory churchmanship, there has never been anything to compare with this project. Its chief writer, staff director and consultants are all women. The bishops sponsored open hearings in 100 dioceses and 60 colleges, met with 24 national women's organizations, received 10,000 pages of written testimony and amassed opinions from 75,000 women in all. The text has been revised several times, with drafts made public and debated in 1988 and 1990. The Vatican, leery...
...similar unions on which Blake modeled his own proposal. But among the vested interests and sentimental en trenchments of U.S. Protestantism, such a suggestion seems almost like proposing a marriage of Hatfield to McCoy. That it could be seriously put forward by so hardheaded and experienced a pro of churchmanship as Eugene Carson Blake has surprised many an old ecumenical hand and given new hope to many more. A Bill of Principles. Dr. Blake is an enthusiast: he acts not out of fear that Protestantism is withering away but because he senses a new dynamism in the Protestant churches...
Forty ministers and laymen assembled at the Presbyterians' Gilmor-Sloane House in Stony Point, N.Y. for a week-long "Institute on Overseas Churchmanship," under sponsorship of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Participants -mostly Presbyterians, with a sprinkling of Baptists, Congregationalists, Lutherans and Episcopalians-included an architectural engineer who commutes to Korea, a doctor and his wife going to Iran, a minister on his way to the American Church in Paris. Conferees listened to experts on such varied subjects as the mission work of the church, on the implications of the industrial revolution in Asia for Christianity...
...Hill, 115 clerical and 385 lay delegates elected him Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of California-slated to succeed Diocesan Bishop Karl Morgan Block when he retires next December. It took six ballots to do it. In Pike's favor were his age (44), moderate Low-Churchmanship and vigorous stand-taking as dean of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Against him were his ex-Roman Catholicism, the annulment of his first marriage and the same vigorous stand-taking...
Among other plans for future expansion, the Divinity Schools plans to create a new field, International Churchmanship, which would represent the growing importance of the movement toward unity among Protestant and Orthodox sects symbolized by the World Council of Churches. In addition, the school also contemplates a Chair of Byzantine Theology...