Chicago
City on Lake Michigan in the United States. The bishops of the Episcopal Church, meeting here in 1886, adopted the declaration on unity that became the basis of the Lambeth Quadrilateral.
The Episcopal Church’s Prayer Book prints, under the heading “Chicago, 1886”, the declaration in which its House of Bishops named four things as essential to the restoration of unity among Christians (House of Bishops, Chicago Declaration (1886) Prayer Book, p. 876). Two years later the Lambeth Conference’s committee on reunion took the American bishops’ articles as the basis of its own (Lambeth Conference 1888 report of the committee on home reunion, pp. 333–336). See the Lambeth Quadrilateral.
What happened here
- July 1888, firm dateThe Lambeth Quadrilateral
The Anglican bishops meeting at Lambeth in 1888 name four things as a basis for reunion with other churches (the Scriptures, the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds, the two sacraments and the historic episcopate), taking them from a declaration of the American bishops in 1886.
- 1910 to 1925, firm dateThe Fundamentals and the Modernist Controversy
Twelve volumes called The Fundamentals are sent free to Protestant ministers from about 1910. In the 1920s a dispute between Fundamentalists and liberals over the Bible, miracles and modern knowledge divides American churches and reaches a courtroom at Dayton.