Word: communionism
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...Guidance" Only. So, with churchly pomp & ceremony, began the eighth Lambeth Conference. After the opening service at Canterbury last week, the conference moved to London. There, for the next five weeks, the bishops of the Anglican Communion will meet in the historic library of Lambeth Palace. The prelates should have much to say to each other; thanks to World War II, it has been 18 years, instead of the usual ten,* since they last met. But it will be some time before the 20,000,000 communicants and the public at large know what they have said. All sessions...
...respect also some of the stringencies of the Roman system . . . But if there cannot even be conference, with a view to better understanding one another, where differences may be frankly aired and honestly considered, then we are forced to say that, by its own admission, the Roman Catholic communion is simply another totalitarianism demanding complete submission from everyone else as the only condition of fellowship...
...Moscow, the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate announced that a new church was about to join the Eastern Orthodox Communion: the Syrian Church of India. Claiming some 600,000 souls with 350 places of worship, the church is said to have been founded by St. Thomas the Apostle...
...become the Church" -here & now, with no more procrastinating "exploration of the possibilities of union." Since the Roman Catholic Church would consider reunion only on its own terms-a repentant Protestantism asking to be taken back into the fold-"first steps toward union must be taken by the Protestant communions . . . Let each communion in its own way discuss the fundamental question: Is union so desirable that we are resolved to win it? If the answer is affirmative, then bodies can appoint . . . representatives . . . qualified, above all, by a life of Christian spirit...
...When six or eight or ten such communions have taken such action, let the representatives meet and remain together long enough to know one another, long enough for another Pentecost. Let them draft a Plan of Union . . . Let the representatives be charged solemnly to keep their eyes upon the Christ rather than on the practices of a particular communion . .. Agreement is possible . . . Let the Methodists take the lead in a great affirmative decision, stating that we desire union...