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Article: Not without the World Council of Churches: a contribution to the history of the Catholic-Reformed international bilateral dialogue.(World Alliance of Reformed Churches)(Report)
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- The Ecumenical Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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In recent years, I have dedicated some writing to the way in which the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC)--throughout its history, but particularly after the inception of the World Council of Churches in 1948--has understood itself and acted as a world confessional body engaged in the contemporary ecumenical search for visible Christian unity. (1)
In "Towards an Alliance of Protestant Churches? The Confessional and the Ecumenical in the WARC Constitutions (1)" (2), I propose a reading of the 1875 WARC Constitution and argue that by creating a fellowship of churches whose faith was "in harmony with the consensus of the Reformed confessions" and whose order ...