Canadian Council of Churches, still vital at 70 ?
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40383
- Author
- Swift, Diana
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 November
- Author
- Swift, Diana
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 November
- Volume
- 140
- Issue
- 9
- Page
- 2
- Notes
- The Canadian Council of Churches (CCC) was founded in 1944 four years before the World Council of Churches (WCC) in 1948. It will mark its 70th anniversary in November 2014 with an assembly in Mississauga, Ont., and public events at the Church of the Redeemer in Toronto. "Today, the council has 25 members ... In total they encompass 85 per cent of Christians, who account for 66 per cent of Canada's population of 35 million. .... 'We are the broadest, most inclusive church council in the world, and we are looked to as a role model', says [the Rev. Dr. Karen] Hamilton [general secretary of the Council], noting that neither the WCC nor the U.S. National Council of Churches counts the Roman Catholic Church as a member. She points to 1997 as a milestone year when the council welcomed in the Catholic Church after adopting a forum consensus model in which 'every voice, small or large, around the table matters. We don't outvote each other and money doesn't buy you anything'. Without complete member consensus, no statement can be issued in the name of the CCC". Anglican commentators in the article include the Rev. Canon David Oliver (general secretary 1994-1995), Archdeacon Bruce Myers (General Synod co-ordinator for ecumenical and interfaith relations), Stuart Brown (the council's first lay general secretary, 1988-1993) and Henriette Thompson (General Synod director for public witness for social and ecological justice).
- Subjects
- Canadian Council of Churches - Anniversaries, etc.
- Canadian Council of Churches - History
- Canadian Council of Churches - Membership
- Ecumenical movement - Catholic Church - Canada
- Consensus (Social sciences)
- Decision making - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Ecumenical movement - Canada - History
- Ecumenical movement - Canada - 21st century
- Hamilton, Karen A., 1957-
- Brown, Stuart E. (Stuart Edwin), 1942-
- Myers, Bruce (Bruce Joseph Andrew), 1972-
- Oliver, David
- Thompson, Henriette