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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: the need for correct doctrine (tangent: Christian unity)
Message-ID: <347@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 11:05:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 11:05:45 1985
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Summary: 

>>   On the other hand, it would be worthwhile, if it could be achieved, to have
>>a council write a creed which expresses a 20th century understanding of the
>>issues addressed in the Athanasian creed.  I would insist, however, that the
>>council be truly ecumenical:  the Roman Catholic Church, all branches of
>>Eastern Orthodoxy, and all branches of Protestantism should be represented.
>>[N. L. Tinkham]
>Are you sure that such a council could ever reach an agreement on any document
>that actually said anything?  [Tom Bennet]

I wonder if it would even be possible to get agreement on who should
attend such a council, much less on what should be said.  Some Baptists
don't think Catholics are really Christian (and visa-versa).  And what
about Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Moonies,
Messianic Jews, and the infinite number of tiny "Apostolic" and 
"Holiness" congregations?  Some "main-stream" Christians would exclude 
some (or all) of these from a "Christian" council.

I agree with Tom's suggestion that a collection of creeds from the 
various groups would be enlightening, probably more so than an ecumenical
statement from all of them.  

		charli