World Conference of Churches

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A world church conference is a meeting where representatives of a large number of churches from different denominations come together. The term emerged in the early ecumenical movement after World War I and was first applied to the 1925 Stockholm World Conference of Churches , the first assembly of the movement for practical Christianity . The term World Church Conference was also used in German for the meetings of the Movement for Faith and Church Constitution and the World Association for Friendship Work of Churches . When, through the joint initiative of these three organizations, the World Council of Churches (WCC, initially known in German as the "World Council of Churches") was formed in 1948 , its plenary assemblies were also initially referred to as World Church Conferences, as were other large conferences that were the responsibility of the WCC (above all the faith and Order Commission ) were carried out.

The term is less common for conferences of other worldwide Christian organizations or movements, such as the congresses organized by the Lausanne movement since 1974 . The world mission conferences held since 1910 are comparable .

Overview

In addition to the assembly of the WCC (see World Council of Churches # assemblies ), the following assemblies are referred to as world church conferences:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the official documentation of the meetings in German, the term World Church Conference appeared in the title until 1961 , but no longer from 1968.
  2. ↑ Presentation: Karl-Christoph Epting : The first international conference of the churches for peace and friendship in Constance 1914. Christliche Verlagsanstalt, Constance 1988. - This meeting was not called a world church conference at its time; only later, when the term became common for other assemblies, was it occasionally applied to that assembly.
  3. ↑ Documentation: Adolf Deißmann (Ed.): The Stockholm World Church Conference. Prehistory, ministry and work of the World Conference on Practical Christianity 19. – 30. August 1925. Official German report . Furche-Verlag, Berlin 1926.
  4. ↑ Documentation: Hermann Sasse : The World Conference on Faith and Church Order - German official report on the World Conference in Lausanne, 3. – 21. August 1927. Furche-Verlag, Berlin 1929.
  5. ↑ Documentation: Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze : The World Church Conference of Prague. General report of the Congress for Peace and Friendship from August 24th to 30th, 1928. Ev. Press association, Berlin-Steglitz 1928.
  6. ↑ Documentation: Research Dept. of the ecumenical council for practical Christianity (ed.): Church and world in ecumenical view. Report of the Oxford World Conference of Churches on Church, People and State. Geneva 1938.
  7. ↑ Documentation: Leonard Hodgson: The faith talk of the churches. The Second World Conference on Faith and Order. Evangelischer Verlag, Zollikon-Zurich 1938.
  8. ↑ Documentation: Wilhelm Stählin (ed.): Church, worship, communion of the communion. Report of a world church conference. Luther-Verlag, Witten 1954.
  9. ↑ Documentation: Patrick C. Rodger, Lukas Vischer (Ed.): Montreal 1963: Report of the Fourth World Conference on Faith and the Order of the Church, Montreal, July 12-26, 1963. EVZ, Zurich 1963.
  10. ↑ Documentation: Hanfried Krüger (Ed.): Appeal to the Churches of the World: Documents of the World Conference for Church and Society. Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1967.
  11. ↑ Documentation: Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation: World Assembly, Seoul / Korea, 6.-12. March 1990. WCC, Geneva 1990.
  12. ↑ Documentation: Günther Gassmann (Ed.): Santiago de Compostela 1993: Fifth World Conference on Faith and Order; August 3-14, 1993; Reports, presentations, documents. Lembeck, Frankfurt a. M. 1994.