Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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"Led, I pray, by the Holy Spirit," he began, "I propose to the Protestant Episcopal Church that it, together with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, invite the Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ to form with us a plan of church union . . . Any...
Apostolic & Elective. A plan of reunion, said Presbyterian Blake, must include elements to satisfy both the reformed and the catholic (not Roman Catholic) traditions. To be acceptable to catholics (such as the Episcopalians), who set great store by the belief that their bishops have been consecrated in an unbroken line...
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Cape & Cassock. The new church must be democratic, Blake continued, with a government in which laymen share equally with ministers; it must be capable of containing a diversity of theological formulations and ways of worship. And it must be wary of pomp and circumstance. "Since it appears to be necessary...
When Presbyterian Blake had finished his long sermon, Bishop Pike (who had foreknowledge of what his Presbyterian friend would say) stepped forward in his white and blue vestments to add his amen to Blake's proposal: "I can say that his prophetic proclamation is the most sound and inspiring...