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'Ecumenism is about
being in
relationships with
other denominations,
other people and all
humanity, says the
Senior Bishop of the
Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church.'
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(April 17, 2012)
Senior Bishop Thomas
L. Hoyt, Jr., the
Presiding Prelate of
the Seventh
Episcopal District,
was recently
featured in Faith &
Leadership, a
publication of Duke
Divinity School.
Senior Bishop Hoyt
visited Duke
Divinity School to
deliver the 2012
Martin Luther King,
Jr. Lecture and
spoke with Faith &
Leadership.
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If a fanatic is someone who won’t change either his mind or the subject, then Bishop Thomas Lanier Hoyt Jr. says you can call him a fanatic for ecumenism.
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“I won’t change the subject about what it means to have relationships with other denominations, other people and humanity,” Senior Bishop Hoyt said. “It’s not just churches. Ecumenism is how you deal with human beings of all persuasions, which means that one has to be open to people who don’t have the same ideas.”
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A former president
of the National
Council of Churches,
Senior Bishop Hoyt
has written more
than 40 articles for
professional
journals and
publications, and he
delivered the Lyman
Beecher Lectures at
Yale Divinity School
in 1993. He was a
professor of New
Testament studies
for 25 years at the
Interdenominational
Theological Center,
Howard University
School of Divinity
and Hartford
Seminary. Before
that, Senior Bishop Hoyt served as
pastor of several
CME congregations in
North Carolina and
New York.
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Senior Bishop Hoyt
has a B.A. from Lane
College, Jackson,
Tenn.; an M.Div.
from Phillips School
of Theology of the
Interdenominational
Theological Center,
Atlanta, Ga.; an
Master of Sacred
Theology (S.T.M.) from the
Union Theological
Seminary, New York;
and a Ph.D. from
Duke University.
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In
His Service,
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James B. Walker
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Chair, College of
Bishops
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Ms. Jeanette
L. Bouknight
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Executive
Secretary
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Christian
Methodist
Episcopal
Church
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"An
Essential
Church:
Poised
for 21st
Century
Ministry"
