What is Left of the 1920 Lambeth Conference 'Appeal to All Christian People'?
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Ephraim Radner
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Leiden
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Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The 1920 Lambeth Conference viewed the Anglican Communion's confederated structure among autonomous churches as a model for the future organic reunion that its famous Appeal proposed. This article examines the Conference's discussion of this model, as well as an influential early critique of the model, written by Yves Congar in 1937. More recent conflicts within the Anglican Communion, as well as analyses of these conflicts, have confirmed some of the practical aspects of Congar's critique, even while Roman Catholic self-reflection has moved beyond his own early alternatives. In conjunction with Roman Catholic rethinking of the nature of oversight, the Appeal's challenge, after 100 years, now appears to lie in the direction of a more radical restructuring of Anglican ecclesial life than its authors originally anticipated.