| Resolution Number: | 1979-C005 |
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| Title: | Urge Anglican Primates to Consider a Meeting of Christian World Leaders |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Amended |
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Resolved, That this General Convention urge the Council of Primates of the Anglican Communion through the Presiding Bishop of this Church to consider convening a meeting of Christian leaders of the world sometime in the next five years, in order to begin planning for a genuinely universal council before 2000 A.D., to address anew, in terms of the 21st Century, the mission of the Church.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 1979 (New York: General Convention, 1980), p. C-56. |
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Legislative History
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Ecumenical Relations |
House of Bishops
On the eighth day, the Bishop of Kentucky, Chairman of the Committee on Ecumenical Relations, moved the adoption of Resolution C-5 amended as follows:
Whereas, this is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of this Church; and
Whereas, Bishop Brent's life and work encompassed the mission of the Church across a broad spectrum of interests that included the Philippine Islands, the Chaplaincy to the Armed Forces, the ecumenical understanding of mission, as well as a concern with the international opium commission; and
Whereas, Bishop Brent knew the world to be only partially Christian and was largely responsible for the focusing of the life and work of the Churches and the faith and order of the Churches in one body which we know today as the World Council of Churches to enhance world mission; and
Whereas, the subject of world mission is increasingly a preoccupation of each Christian Communion as all of us are confronted with confusion, tension, and anxiety all over the world; and
Whereas, the Lambeth Conference of 1978 endorsed the hope expressed at the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches that the members of the World Council of Churches, committed to each other, should work for the time when a genuinely universal council may once more speak for all Christians; and
Whereas, the Lambeth Conference of 1978 re-affirmed the action of the 1968 Lambeth Conference; be it therefore
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That this General Convention urge the Council of Primates of the Anglican Communion through the Presiding Bishop of this Church to consider convening a meeting of Christian leaders of the world sometime in the next five years, in order to begin planning for a genuinely universal council before 2,000 A.D., to address anew, in terms of the 21st Century, the mission of the Church.
The motion was seconded by the Bishop of Ohio.
Resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #148)
House of Deputies
On the tenth day, HB Message #148 was referred to the Committee on Ecumenical Relations.
On the eleventh day, the Committee on Ecumenical Relations presented its Report #17 on Resolution C-5 as amended, and recommended concurrence.
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #222)
| Abstract: | The 66th General Convention urges the Council of Primates of the Anglican Communion to convene a meeting of Christian leaders of the world sometime in the next five years to address the mission of the Church in the 21st century. |
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