Word: intercommunion
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...interfaith age, Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy pray together and picket together, and hardly a church exists that has not been preached to by a minister of another faith. But there is a point where ardent advocates of ecumenism draw the line: interCommunion. To receive the consecrated bread and wine together is the ultimate expression of Christian unity, and to do so lightly is morally wrong as long as Christianity remains divided...
...doctrine of transubstantiation is about to be jettisoned for the more enlightening concept of transignification, Anglicans and Roman Catholics may look for limited intercommunion in 1966-and perhaps even full intercommunion by 1970, which, after all, is the fourth centennial of their separation...
...Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (2,500,000) and the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (20,000). At Missouri's insistence, the new agency will have a strong division for theological studies, which could help resolve some of the issues that now stand in the way of Lutheran intercommunion and pulpit fellowship. > Even closer to union are the 928,000-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) and the Reformed Church in America (232,000). A joint study committee has found no major obstacle to merger of these two Calvinist bodies, which already share a common church school curriculum...
...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...
...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...