Michael Ramsey

thumb|If the problems about schism and reunion mean dying and rising with Christ, they will not be solved through easy humanistic ideas of fellowship and brotherhood, but by the hard road of the cross. Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury (14 November 1904 – 23 April 1988), was a British Anglican bishop and life peer. He served as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England. He was appointed on 31 May 1961 and held the office until 1974, having previously been appointed Bishop of Durham in 1952 and the Archbishop of York in 1956. He was known as a theologian, educator, and advocate of Christian unity. Quotes Both divisions and unity remind us of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Division severs his body: but unity means the one Body, in which every member and every local community dies to self in its utter dependence upon the whole, the structure of the Body thereby setting forth the dying and rising with Christ. And if the problems about schism and reunion mean dying and rising with Christ, they will not be solved through easy humanistic ideas of fellowship and brotherhood, but by the hard road of the cross. The Gospel and the Catholic Church (1936), pp. 120–126. Excerpted in James E. Griffiss, ed., To Believe is to Pray: Readings from Michael Ramsey (Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1996), p. 29 External links Category:1904 births Category:1988 deaths Category:Archbishops of Canterbury Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:University of Cambridge faculty Category:British peers