Faith and Order Meet in July
Diocesan Press Service. March 11, 1963 [VIII-10]
A world study conference dealing with obstacles and opportunities in Christian unity will be held on the campus of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, July 12-26.
Regarded by theologians and church leaders as one of the most significant meetings of the mid-twentieth century, the study conference will bring together 500 leading Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox theologians from all parts of the world. Church historians, sociologists, pastors, and laymen will also be present.
Formal title for the conference is the Fourth World Conference on Faith and Order. It is sponsored by the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches whose chairman is Dr. Douglas Horton, Randolph, N. H.
Faith and order refers to the theological and organizational differences which divide the Church. Differing conceptions on doctrinal and practical issues such as baptism, Holy Communion, worship, the ministry, and church government will come under consideration.
The Montreal conference will be the first such world meeting since the faith and order conference held in Lund, Sweden, in 1952. In the intervening decade many developments have taken place in Christian unity, including a growing dialogue between the Roman Catholics and others.