CHURCH IN FUTURE
Television was the beginning .of many technological advances which would change the nature of the church, the Rev. R. M. O’Grady told the third Inter-Church School at the Salvation Army Citadel yesterday.
“It may well be that this could spell the death of Protestantism as such, but it may also usher in a new realisation of the unity of mankind, a world in which we become one people held together in Christ,” he said.
For the last 500 years it had been a book-centred culture in which the birth of Protestantism was made possible, he said. Protestants had been known as “a people of The Book” (the Bible). “Everything has been secondary to the fact that we could read, but now the whole idea of society is in the process of change,” he said. “Our eyes are slowly opening, and for the first time man now knows who is his neighbour.”
In the “primitive life” of the 1960 s it was impossible to conceive what the world would be like in 2000 A.D., but he was certain that “humanity would become one,” Mr O’Grady said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31319, 15 March 1967, Page 2
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