The Ecumenical Review, April 1st, 2000
Over the recent decades of the ecumenical movement, theologians have developed various concepts of unity. One of the earliest, and certainly the most straightforward, was the concept of organic unity: in each place there should be one fully committed fellowship, which would be united in faith, proclamation, sacraments, witness and service.(1) Each city would be a local church, and the concept would be expanded to apply to the unity of the whole church, an eschatological sign for the unity of all humanity.
In the early 1970s the World Council of Churches' Commission on Faith and Order refine...
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