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Article: ELCA to try again on pact with Episcopalians.(Martin E. Marty will head an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America team dedicated to establishing 'full communion' with the Episcopal Church)(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- December 24, 1997
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Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, stung by this summer's defeat of a proposal for closer ties with the Episcopal Church, have tapped Martin E. Marty, one of the denomination's most respected figures, to head a team to draft a new proposal for bringing the two churches into "full communion" with one another. Marty, a prolific author who is considered a national expert on religious history, is a professor of American religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School and a Christian Century senior editor.
"As of today we have begun the process of developing a revised proposal for full communion with the Episcopal Church," Daniel F. ...