Faith and Order Commission
The Faith and Order Commission is an assembly group within the
The commission has been successful in working toward consensus on
The commission has 120 members, including representation of churches who are not members of the World Council of Churches,
A major study on the church[2] was undertaken which examined the question 'What it means to be a church, or the Church?' in particular with a focus on ecclesiology and ethics focusing on the churches/Church's 'prophetic witness and its service to those in need'.[3]
Faith and Order collaborates with Justice, Peace and Creation to answer the questions:
- 'How can the search for unity be a source of renewal for both the Church and the world?
- 'What does our increasing cooperation on issues of justice, peace and the creation teach us about the nature of the Church?
- 'What is the relationship between ethnicity, nationalism, and church unity?
Material for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is prepared annually in collaboration with the Roman Catholic Church.[4]
Other work of the Commission includes facilitating the coordination of results from international bilateral dialogues (the Bilateral Forum), and movements towards local church unions. Its publications are issued in a series of Faith and Order Papers beginning with no. 1 in 1948. An earlier series of Faith and Order Papers was issued by the World Conference of Faith and Order from 1937 onwards.
See also
References
- ^ "Faith and Order and the Multilateral Dialogue on the Church | EWTN". EWTN Global Catholic Television Network. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
- ^ Ecclesiology
- ^ World Council of Churches Faith and Order; Ecclesiology and Ethics: Introduction to . . .
- ^ Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
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