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Resolution Number: 1991-A039
Title: Endorse an Ecumenical Agenda for the Years Ahead
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That this 70th General Convention endorse the following ecumenical agenda for the Episcopal Church in the years ahead:

  1. That the Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations sponsor a focused consultation on ecclesiology that will bring together theologians, representatives of other dialogue partners, members of the Faith and Order units of the World Council of Churches and the National Council of the Churches of Christ, and the Episcopal Diocesan Ecumenical Officers.
  2. That the Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations request an explicit examination of ecclesiology in each of our dialogues and encourage exchange of information and experience among them.
  3. That the Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations invite the cooperation of the Episcopal Diocesan Ecumenical Officers in challenging and assisting the Church at diocesan and parish levels to test issues of ecclesiology against actual experience and in order that the Church's local life may more intentionally reflect her ecclesiology and that her ecclesiology may be sharpened by her actual experience.
Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Phoenix, 1991 (New York: General Convention, 1992), p. 798.

Legislative History

Author: The Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Committee on Ecumenical Relations

House of Bishops

Original Text of Resolution:

(A039)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That this 70th General Convention endorse the following ecumenical agenda for the Episcopal Church in the years ahead:

  1. That the Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations sponsor a focused consultation on ecclesiology that will bring together theologians, representatives of other dialogue partners, members of the Faith and Order units of the World Council of Churches and the National Council of the Churches of Christ, and the Episcopal Diocesan Ecumenical Officers.
  2. That the Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations request an explicit examination of ecclesiology in each of our dialogues and encourage exchange of information and experience among them.
  3. That the Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations invite the cooperation of the Episcopal Diocesan Ecumenical Officers in challenging and assisting the Church at diocesan and parish levels to test issues of ecclesiology against actual experience and in order that the Church's local life may more intentionally reflect her ecclesiology and that her ecclesiology may be sharpened by her actual experience.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #244)

House of Deputies

The Committee on Ecumenical Relations presented its Report #16 on House of Bishops Message #244 relating to Resolution A039 (Ecumenical Agenda) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #338)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 20.

Report Reference:   Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations, Reports to the 70th General Convention, 1991, pp. 61-100.
Abstract:   The 70th General Convention directs the Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations to sponsor a consultation on ecclesiology in ecumenical dialogues and to utilize the local church's experience with ecclesiological issues.