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Amsterdam—What are the Implications?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

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Many Of Us Rejoice That Almost All The Churches Of The world have been able to unite and form a World Council of Churches. Many others—and also many of those who rejoice—are a little puzzled. To-day Baptists and Quakers and Salvation Army leaders unite in worship and discussion with old Catholics and Eastern Orthodox. A century ago they tended to look at one another as dangerous heretics or even as allies of anti-Christ. We find ourselves asking: Are we to rejoice because the ancient animosities have been laid aside or are we to hesitate in the fear that all this has happened through lack of insight into the great differences which divide us? Has the Holy Spirit so changed men's hearts that they can unite or has the spirit of the world so invaded the Church that she can no longer distinguish between light and darkness?

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Research Article
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1949

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References

page 225 note 1 “I am by nature a gentle soul and entirely averse to all unnecessary disputes”—Preface to Nein.

page 227 note 1 Schlink, , Ecumenical Review, Vol. I, No. 2, p. 153.Google Scholar

page 227 note 2 See Barth, , Knowledge and Service of God, pp. 166167.Google Scholar

page 229 note 1 Schlink, loc. cit. p. 154.

page 229 note 2 So Hartenstein in International Review of Missions, January 1949, and Principal William Robinson in a speech to the British Council of Churches at Edinburgh, March 1949.