RT Article
T1 What price ecumenism? Divisions in the Church of England’s approach to the 1952 Järvenpää Conference
JF International journal for the study of the Christian church
VO 22
IS 2
SP 124
OP 138
A1 Root, Terry
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1813800405
AB In 1933, ecumenical endeavour in the Church of England saw the creation of the Council on Foreign Relations, preceded four years earlier by Anglican theologians meeting informally with their counterparts from the Nordic Lutheran Churches. Following the Second World War these theological meetings resumed whilst official ecumenical meetings between the churches were sporadic and distinctions between the two confused. This article examines the Church of England’s approach to the proposed 1952 theological conference in Finland. Correspondence between those who saw real value in these informal meetings and those who did not shines, a light on their ideological and bureaucratic differences. From that divisiveness, threats to end these conferences came from Archbishop Fisher and H. M. Waddams, General Secretary of the Council on Foreign relations, whilst Bishops Bell Hunter strove to protect them. This article argues their continuance was an important step on the road to the Porvoo Common Statement.
K1 Anglo-Scandinavian theological conferences
K1 H. M. waddams: Nordic Lutheran churches
K1 Porvoo common statement
K1 archbishop fisher
K1 bishop bell
K1 bishop hunter
K1 church of England council on foreign relations
K1 Ecumenism
DO 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2046788