What the Lutherans and the Reformed can learn from one another. (Lutheran-Reformed Formula of Agreement of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church U.S.A., Reformed Church in America and United Church of Christ)(includes related article on definition of 'full communion')(Cover Story)
From: The Christian Century
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Date: 6/4/1997
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Author: Fackre, Gabriel
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and three Reformed churches will decide whether to approve the Lutheran-Reformed Formula of Agreement to establish 'full communion.' The Agreement may help to resolve differences regarding the Eucharist, confessions and the church's social mission.
Ecumenical decisions will be made in North America this summer that could "begin a dramatic new chapter in the near five-century history of the Reformation." So says Gunther Gassmann, former director ...
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