In memoriam.Most Reverend Most Reverend Noun (in Britain) a courtesy title applied to archbishops Edward Scott, who died in a June 2004 automobile accident Ask a Lawyer Question Country: United States of America State: Utah Say you're at a red light in a left hand turning lane and the light turns green so you let up slightly on the break antedating moving forward and the vehicle , earned the love and admiration of activists for peace and social justice because of his compelling "radical compassion." In the words of his biographer, Hugh McCullum, the story of Ted Scott
Edward (Ted) Scott, CC (April 30 1919 - June 21 2004) was a Canadian clergyman. , Anglican primate from 1971 to 1986 and Moderator of the World Council of Churches from 1975 to 1983, is "partly the story of one good man's struggle to be radical--like his early prairie heroes--and also to be compassionate in his response to the needs of others." Archbishop Scott is publicly well remembered for his role in efforts to end South African apartheid. He was both applauded for his work in 1986 as Canada's representative to a Commonwealth Eminent Persons' Group and vilified as he struggled to defend grants from the Programme to Combat Racism of the World Council of Churches to liberation movements in Zimbabwe and Namibia. His period as Anglican Primate and WCC WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → COE m (Conseil œcuménique des Églises) WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → Weltkirchenrat m Moderator also included church exploration of more effective ways of responding to human rights abuses in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and Asia, Aboriginal rights in Canada, the Cold War, and other issues. In Canada, beginning in the early seventies, several specialized ecumenical coalitions for justice, including Project Ploughshares
This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. , were established. Phyllis Creighton, a former board member of Project Ploughshares and Anglican activist on peace issues, remembers the many ways in which Archbishop Scott used power creatively to ensure that the work of Ploughshares and nuclear disarmament positions were supported. At the same time, "he was more skilled in compromise than the rest of us." Archbishop Scott presided over the World Council of Churches during a period of enormously important work on disarmament issues, including the 1983 Vancouver Assembly (1983) which adopted a landmark Statement on Peace with Justice in which churches declared that the production, deployment, and use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity In international law a crime against humanity is an act of persecution or any large scale atrocities against a body of people, and is the highest level of criminal offense. and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds. We are fortunate to have Hugh McCullum's recently published Radical Compassion: The Life and Times of Archbishop Ted Scott, as we remember with thanks Scott's legacy. As Scott reminds us in its foreword, "The road of the Spirit of truth and justice starts at the margins, among the historically oppressed op·press tr.v. op·pressed, op·press·ing, op·press·es 1. To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny. 2. and powerless, and those in solidarity with them." Moira Hutchinson Chair, Board of Project Ploughshares |
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