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SOME ASPECTS OF CHURCH RELATIONS IN THE BRITISH ISLES

SOME ASPECTS OF CHURCH RELATIONS IN THE BRITISH ISLES invited the member churches of the British Council of Churches, in appropriate groupings such as nations, to gather together to work and pray for the inauguration of union by a date agreed amongst them. We dare to hope that this date should not be later than Easter Day 1980.3 The question of the fixed date, namely Easter 1980, was a vexed one and forty-one official delegates opposed the resolution while fourteen abstained. The latter appear to have been fearful lest legal and other difficulties (minority groups, for instance) might impede actual union by 1980 and so from the decision to fix the definite date discouragement and a sense of failure, they felt, might be the result. This reason for hesitation apart, the actual differences between the churches enumerated are to a very large extent irrelevant to the present general situation when so many have given up belief in organized Christianity and so many fail to attend any church. It may be for this reason that in the Nottingham Report the section on faith at first sight seems unduly vague : ' Priesthood and Sacraments. A study on the Anglican-Methodist Report. By R. T. BECKWITH. 128, Abingdon, Marcham Press, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

SOME ASPECTS OF CHURCH RELATIONS IN THE BRITISH ISLES

The Heythrop Journal , Volume 7 (1) – Jan 1, 1966

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Copyright © 1966 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0018-1196
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1468-2265
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2265.1966.tb00487.x
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Abstract

invited the member churches of the British Council of Churches, in appropriate groupings such as nations, to gather together to work and pray for the inauguration of union by a date agreed amongst them. We dare to hope that this date should not be later than Easter Day 1980.3 The question of the fixed date, namely Easter 1980, was a vexed one and forty-one official delegates opposed the resolution while fourteen abstained. The latter appear to have been fearful lest legal and other difficulties (minority groups, for instance) might impede actual union by 1980 and so from the decision to fix the definite date discouragement and a sense of failure, they felt, might be the result. This reason for hesitation apart, the actual differences between the churches enumerated are to a very large extent irrelevant to the present general situation when so many have given up belief in organized Christianity and so many fail to attend any church. It may be for this reason that in the Nottingham Report the section on faith at first sight seems unduly vague : ' Priesthood and Sacraments. A study on the Anglican-Methodist Report. By R. T. BECKWITH. 128, Abingdon, Marcham Press,

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Published: Jan 1, 1966

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