Word: intercommunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of the behind-the-scenes conciliation that makes ecumenicism work. In 1956 he led the old Evangelical Lutheran Church into the World Council of Churches. Next he played a major role in the negotiations that brought the Evangelical Lutherans into the A.L.C. The target now: intercommunion with Fry's Lutheran Church in America...
...English Church. Like his predecessor, now Lord Fisher of Lambeth, he is a convinced ecumenicist, and serves as one of six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches. Last year he visited Moscow and Istanbul for theological discussions with Orthodox prelates on the prickly question of intercommunion. A close personal friend of Liverpool's Roman Catholic Archbishop John Heenan, who is the odds-on favorite to become the next English cardinal, Ramsey last year became the first Archbishop of Canterbury to lecture at Belgium's Catholic Louvain University. He hopes to visit Pope Paul VI in Rome...
...more. For by virtue of its doctrinal comprehensiveness, Anglicanism has also been traditionally an exceedingly ecumenical faith-even willing to surrender its own independence for the sake of God's "Coming Great Church." In the pursuit of spiritual brotherhood, many Anglican churches have ironed out some form of intercommunion with a faith outside the fellowship of Canterbury-the Church of England with the Church of Sweden, for example, and U.S. Episcopalians with the Philippine Independent Church...
...committee proposed joining the churches in two stages, a period of full intercommunion followed by formal union, with the Methodists becoming, in effect, the evangelical branch of a new Church in (rather than of) England...
...churches agree to go ahead with the intercommunion, the committee suggested that the decision be celebrated in reconciliation ceremonies at churches and chapels across the country. The committee thoughtfully drew up a formula for the rite, drawn largely from Anglican and Methodist service books...