Report of the Anglican Congress 1954
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- Publication Date
- 1954
- Material Type
- Book : Cloth
- Location
- General Synod Archives
- Call Number
- BX 5021 A65 1954
- Place of Publication
- Greenwich, Conn.
- Publisher
- Seabury Press
- Publication Date
- 1954
- Physical Description
- xii, 276 p. ; 23.2 x 15.3 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Cloth
- Notes
- "Editor: Powel Mills Dawley, The General Theological Seminary, New York".
- Cover title: Anglican Congress 1954: Report of proceedings August 4-13 : Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- "In recent years with the accelerated growth of the Anglican Communion and the rapid establishment of new dioceses and missionary areas, the problems confronting the Church have likewise increased. It became clear to many that intervals of ten years or more between Lambeth Conferences gave the Churches insufficient opportunity to take common counsel in the face of the rapidly changing problems of the modern age. Moreover, since in our national Churches the priests and members of the laity share with the bishops the responsibility of decision in matters affecting our welfare, it was inevitable that there should come about a recognition that the clerical and lay representatives should share with the bishops the responsibilities of international gatherings. The Lambeth Conference of 1948 welcomed the suggestion 'that a Congress representative of the Anglican Communion be held'. No such comparable gathering had taken place since the Pan-Anglican Congress held in London in 1908, and accordingly the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1949 extended an invitation for such a Congress to meet in the United States. The offer of hospitality graciously extended by the Bishop and the Diocese of Minnesota was accepted. Invited to the Congress were the bishops of each diocese and missionary district of the Communion, together with one priest and one lay delegate from each. The Anglican Congress of 1954 marks a new era in the history of the Anglican Communion in that it is the first representative gathering of the Church held outside the British Isles". -- Intro., p. 2-3.
- Contents divided into 15 main sections: [Preliminary material] -- Foreword / Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Officer of the Congress -- Introduction / Walter H. Gray, Bishop of Connecticut, Episcopal Secretary of the Congress -- The Opening of the Congress -- The Opening Session -- Topic I: Our Vocation -- Topic II: Our Worship -- Topic III: Our Message -- Topic IV: Our Work -- Congress Services and Events -- Mass Meeting of Missionary Witness -- The Closing Session -- The Closing Service: Sermon by the Archbishop of Dublin / Arthur William Barton -- Concluding Words / Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury -- Appendices.
- Contents of [Preliminary material] section: Consultants for the Report -- Anglican Congress 1954: Theme -- Archbishops, Presiding Bishops, and Metropolitans, Present at the Congress -- Congress Officers and Committee Chairmen.
- Contents of The Opening of the Congress section: Minneapolis 1954 -- The Opening Service -- Address by the Presiding Bishop / Henry Knox Sherrill --Address by the Archbishop of Canterbury / Geoffrey Francis Fisher.
- Contents of Topic I: Our Vocation section: The Position of the Anglican Communion in History and Doctrine: Address by the Bishop of London / J. William C. Wand -- The Structure of the Anglican Communion: Address by the Archbishop of Quebec / Philip Carrington -- Our Place in Christendom and Our Relations with Other Communions / J.P. Hickinbotham.
- Contents of Topic II: Our Worship section: Our Anglican Understanding of Corporate Worship: Address / Massey H. Shepherd -- The Liturgical Life of the Anglican Communion in the Twentieth Century: Address / David Colin Dunlop.
- Contents of Topic II: Our Message section: Salvation and the Individual: Address by the Bishop of Armidale / John S. Moyes -- The Church and the Family: Address by the Bishop of Johannesburg / Richard Ambrose Reeves -- The Church and the Citizen / Kathleen Bliss.
- Contents of Topic IV: Our Work section: The Task of the Laity / Charles P. Taft -- The Missionary Task: Address by the Bishop of Liberia / Bravid W. Harris -- A Church in Action: Address by the Bishop of Sheffield / Leslie S. Hunter.
- Contents of Mass Meeting of Missionary Witness section: Address by the Assistant Bishop of Lagos / Adelkun Williamson Fowell Olumide Howells -- Address by the Bishop of Alaska / William Jones Gordon -- Address by the Bishop of Kurunagala / Hiyaniridu Lakdasa Jacob De Mel.
- Contents of The Closing Session section: Report of the Editorial Committee -- The Congress Message.
- Contents of Appendices: Appendix I: Congress Officers and Committees -- Appendix II: Daily Program -- Appendix III: Delegates from the Churches and Directory of Congress Participants.
- Added Entry
- Dawley, Powel Mills, 1907-1985
- Anglican Congress 1954: Report of proceedings August 4-13 : Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Barton, Arthur William, 1881-1962
- Bliss, Kathleen, 1908-1989
- Carrington, Philip, 1892-1975
- de Mel, Lakdasa (Hiyanirindu Lakdasa Jacob), 1902-1976
- Dunlop, David Colin, 1897-1968
- Fisher, Geoffrey Francis, 1887-1972
- Gordon, William Jones, 1918-1994
- Gray, Walter H. (Walter Henry), 1898-1973
- Harris, Bravid W. (Bravid Washington), 1896-1965
- Hickinbotham, James Peter, 1914-1990
- Howells, Adelakun Williamson, 1905-1963
- Hunter, Leslie S. (Leslie Stannard), 1890-1983
- Moyes, John Stoward, 1884-1972
- Reeves, Richard Ambrose, 1889-1980
- Shepherd, Massey Hamilton, 1913-1990
- Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980
- Taft, Charles P. (Charles Phelps), 1897-1983
- Wand, J.W.C. (John William Charles), 1885-1977
- Subjects
- Anglican Congress (1954 : Minneapolis, Minn.)
- Anglican Communion - Doctrines
- Anglican Communion - History - 20th century
- Anglican Communion - Structure
- Ecumenical movement - Anglican Communion - 20th century
- Worship - Anglican Communion
- Liturgy - Anglican Communion
- Liturgical renewal - Anglican Communion
- Salvation - Anglican Communion
- Family - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Church and state - Anglican Communion
- Christianity and politics - Anglican Communion - 20th century
- Laity - Anglican Communion
- Lay ministry - Anglican Communion
- Missions - Anglican Communion
- Evangelism - Anglican Communion - 20th century
- Church and the world - Anglican Communion - 20th century
- Church of the Province of West Africa - History
- Missions - Africa, West
- Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon - History
- Call Number
- BX 5021 A65 1954
- Location
- General Synod Archives