Lausanne And Its Contribution To The Unity Of The Church

Author : Leonard Hodgson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656695515
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Convictions written by Leonard Hodgson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Convictions: A Selection From the Responses of the Churches to the Report of the World Conference on Faith and Order, Held at Lausanne in 1927 For more than two weeks they discussed such subjects as the Nature of the Church, the Church's Common Confession of Faith, the Ministry and the Sacraments. They endeavoured to pierce below the surface of differing formulae, and to discover the measure of genuine agreement and disagreement in the underlying convictions. After more than two weeks' work, they produced a Report embodying the results they were able to achieve. This Report was sent to all the various Churches which had taken part in the Conference, with a request that they should consider it and express their opinions on it to the Continuation Committee. It is these "Responses of the Churches" to the Report of the 1927 Conference which are printed in this book - or, rather, such selection of them as provides material for future work. In a preliminary survey of these Responses, published in pamphlet form in 1930, it was truly said that: "One common note runs through the whole of the material received: it is that of gratitude for the work which the Lausanne Conference was enabled to accomplish; with this there comes a unanimous determination to continue in co-operation with the movement, and to encourage the Continuation Committee in going forward. There is also a general endorsement, often most cordially expressed, of the general method and principle which the movement has set itself to follow, abstaining from the promulgation of any formal scheme of reunion, and concentrating upon the common consideration of those things in which we agree, and those in which we differ." The Continuation Committee are truly grateful for all such expressions of goodwill, and had it been possible would gladly have published all the Responses in full, as at first they had hoped to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.