The report of the Lambeth Conference 1978
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- Publication Date
- 1978
- Material Type
- Book : Cloth
- Location
- General Synod Archives
- Call Number
- BX 5021 L3 1978
- Corporate Author
- Lambeth Conference, 1978
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- CIO Publishing
- Publication Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 127 p. ; 21.4 x 15 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Cloth
- Notes
- "First published in 1978 by Church Information Office. Copyright 1978 The Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council". -- verso of t.-p.
- "General Editor: Michael Perry, Archdeacon of Durham". -- p. 12.
- Includes index.
- Report of the 1978 Lambeth Conference chaired by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- "The resolutions of the whole Lambeth Conference in plenary session, taken by the a vote of bishops. .... The resolutions have no legislative authority unless or until they have been accepted by the Synods or other governing bodies of the member Churches of the Anglican Communion, and then only in those member Churches. In the case of Section 1 [What is the Church for ?], what is here presented is an editorial collation of views expressed in the course of discussion by the section and in its groups during the Conference; the reports of Sections 2 [The people of God and ministry] and 3[The Anglican Communion in the world-wide Church] have the authority of their respective sections. The speeches in the Appendix give the personal opinions of those who delivered them. The Steering Committee asked that they be printed here, without implying that the Conference is committed to their contents. The chapter 'The Life of the Conference' and the reports of the Hearings are the work of the General Editor [Michael Perry], at the request of the Steering Committee". -- The authority of this report, p. 5.
- "The eleventh Lambeth Conference was unlike its predecessors in a number of ways. For a start, it was residential, and held outside London -- in the University of Kent at Canterbury. Because we shared our daily worship, our meals, and our leisure as well as our business, it was possible to become aware as never before of the Anglican Communion as people rather than as entries in a Yearbook or Directory. .... The fact that it lasted only three weeks -- a much shorter time than any recent Lambeth Conference -- meant that there was not the time to write long reports and debate a plethora of resolutions in plenary sessions. In the event, the Conference passed only 37 resolutions, compared with the 69 of 1968 and the 131 of 1958". -- The life of the conference, p. 6.
- Contents: The authority of this report -- The life of the Conference -- Officers of the Conference -- Participants -- Sections and Groups -- Hearings -- The resolutions of the Conference -- Section 1: What is the Church for ? -- Section 2: The people of God and ministry -- Section 3: The Anglican Communion in the world-wide Church -- A message to Crossroads, South Africa -- The Dean of Botswana -- Appendix: speeches made during the Conference / Professor John Macquarrie, Bishop Cyril Bowles, The Archbishop of Canterbury i.e. Donald Coggan -- Index.
- Chairman of Section 1: What is the Church for ?: Bishop Desmond Tutu, Assistant Bishop of Johannesburg. Section 1 further sub-divided: 1. Introduction -- 2. Worship and mission -- 3. The Church as a sign to the world -- 4. Some particular issues concerning the Church and society -- 5. The Holy Spirit and the Church today.
- Chairman of Section 2: The people of God and ministry: Bishop Douglas Hambidge, Bishop of Caledonia. Section 2 further sub-divided: 1. Bishops -- 2. Ordained ministry -- 3. Lay ministry -- 4. Urban and rural ministry -- 5. Training for ministry -- 6. Ministry in the context of other faiths and religions -- 7. Mission and evangelization -- 8. Liturgy and worship.
- Chairman of Section 3: The Anglican Communion in the world-wide Church: Bishop Patrick Rodger, Bishop of Manchester. Section 3 further sub-divided: 1. The nature and organization of the Anglican Communion -- 2. The Anglican Communion in the oikumene -- 3. Evangelization and renewal.
- The report of Section 3 includes a concluding section on pp. 112-113 entitled "Seven searching questions. At the Hearing entitled 'The Anglican Communion and its Future' Archbishop E.W. Scott of Canada posed seven searching questions. These we leave as a spiritual check-list for our Churches in the years that lie immediately ahead" (p. 112). Text of questions included in text.
- Colophon: Made and printed in Great Britain by Bocardo and Church Army Press Ltd., Oxford.
- Added Entry
- Perry, Michael (Michael Arnold), 1942-1996
- Bowles, Cyril (Cyril William Johnston), 1916-1999
- Coggan, Donald (Frederick Donald), 1909-2000
- Macquarrie, John, 1919-2007
- Rodger, Patrick (Patrick Campbell), 1920-2002
- Scott, Edward W. (Edward Walter), 1919-2004
- Subjects
- Lambeth Conference, 1978
- Lambeth Conference, 1978 - Resolutions
- Anglican Communion - Pastoral letters and charges
- ISBN
- 0-7151-4563-0
- Call Number
- BX 5021 L3 1978
- Copies
- 4 copies
- Location
- General Synod Archives