An Appeal to All Christian People
The appeal for the visible unity of the church issued by the Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference of 1920. Its sixth section restates the four points of 1888 in new words.
Read the text at anglicancommunion.org ↗Resolution 9 on its own page, as the Anglican Communion Office published it until its website was rebuilt (Internet Archive, 19 January 2022) ↗
The bishops acknowledge all who believe in Christ and have been baptized in the name of the Trinity as sharing with them membership in the universal church. Section 6 says that visible unity will involve the acceptance of the Scriptures, the Nicene Creed, the sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion, and a ministry acknowledged by every part of the church. Section 7 claims the episcopate as the means of providing such a ministry, while acknowledging the spiritual reality of the ministries of churches without bishops.
Cited in
- July 1888, firm date