A Wesleyan View of Reunion: Cambridge University Methodist Society 31st October 1948
The Secretary has asked me, when inviting me to this meeting, to speak “of the nature of Methodism's contribution to Church Unity, or at any rate something with a definite Methodist tinge”. In trying to comply with this request, let me make it clear that I shall speak as a Methodist, but only o...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1951
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 1951, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-54 |
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| Summary: | The Secretary has asked me, when inviting me to this meeting, to speak “of the nature of Methodism's contribution to Church Unity, or at any rate something with a definite Methodist tinge”. In trying to comply with this request, let me make it clear that I shall speak as a Methodist, but only on my own behalf and without any kind of, or even hope for, official sanction; and I shall try to be definite. The Anglo-Saxon art of understatement is not easily mastered by one who is not British-born; to say, for instance, “I don't want to hurry you”, when you are anxious to get rid of your visitor quickly, or “I shall not be a moment”, when you intend to keep him waiting for the next few hours, or “I don't want to be uncharitable”, when introducing the most devastating criticism of your opponent's view—in short, to indulge in what a recent article in Lilliput called “phrops”, is a charisma, which, alas has not been given to me. Yet I will endeavour to speak the truth in love. My thoughts go back to one who, nearly ten years ago, spoke to the Methodist Society in this room and, though not a Methodist himself, gave me my earliest and most valued introduction to the Wesley hymns; who, second to none in his determination and outspokenness as a Free Churchman, yet commanded the affection and respect of Christians in many different camps and even had a requiem mass said for him in a Roman Catholic Church: the late Bernard Manning. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930600002337 |