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In the following January 1960 statement Methodist bishop G. Bromley Oxnam presented his pred iction of what the 1960s would hold for the world and the church. The decade's most dramatic event will be the Interplanctan Conference of Religious Faith to be attended by the finest minds of all the planets of the universe. It will be the first "universal" conference on religion, made possible by scientific mastery of space travel. Teachable humiliy will characterize the delegates who will make known the revelation of God to all. Fundamentalist dogmatism and papal infallibility will have no place among men who love one another and seek the truth in freedom. It will be a "sharing" conference. How did God make Himself known to the inhabitants of Mars? Through incarnation in .1 Person, by revelation in a Book, through the thinking of a scholar or a saint? Is...
This section contains 199 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) |