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MEDDELANDEN OCH AKTSTYCKEN
Dokument til! frågan om nattvardsgemenskap med
Englands kyrka.
Av
Ärkebiskopen D. Dr N. Söderblom.
i. Inledning.
Efter tidigare förberedelser och initiativ från anglikanskt
håll framlade en för ändamålet tillsatt kommitté i sitt utlåtande
till den Biskopskonferens, som samlades i Lambeth Palace i
London i juni 1888, följande förslag till inledande av
förhandlingar:
»Your Committee consider that, in view of the increasing
number of Swedes and other Scandinavians now living in
America and in the English Colonies, as well as for the furtherance
of Christian Unity, earnest efforts should be made to establish
more friendly relations between the Scandinavian and Anglican
Churches.
In regard to the Swedish Church your Committee are of
opinion that, as its standards of doctrine are to a great extent
in accord with our own and its continuity as a national Church
has never been broken, any approaches on its part should be
most gladly welcomed with a view to mutual explanation of
differences, and the ultimate establishment, if possible, of
permanent intercommunion on sound principles of Ecclesiastical
polity.
Greater difficulties are presented as regards communion
with the Norwegian and Danish Churches by the constitution
of their ministry; but there are grounds of hope, in the growing
appreciation of Church order, that in the course of time these
difficulties may be surmounted. It is much to be desired that
a basis of union should be formed with a people who are dis-
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