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050 00 $aBR516.5$b.W38 2014
082 04 $a262.0011$223
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aWatkins, Keith,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe American church that might have been :$ba history of the Consultation on Church Union /$cKeith Watkins ; foreword by Michael Kinnamon.
246 30 $aHistory of the Consultation on Church Union
264 1 $aEugene, Oregon :$bPickwick Publications,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $axviii, 244 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.
505 00 $gPart One: Moving from vision to plan (1960-1970).$tThe bold proposal --$tThe challenge to reunion in concrete terms --$tSecond thoughts on church union --$tPrinciples of church union --$tUniting Christians separated by race --$tPoised on the edge of success --$tAt last a plan of union --$gPart Two: Negotiating the terms of agreement (1971-1988).$tResponding to the nation's deepening distress --$tShifting the focus from plan to process --$tThe interdependence of unity and mission --$tThe COCU consensus: in quest of a church of Christ uniting --$tUnity in diversity: churches in covenant communion --$gPart Three: Reshaping the ecumenical vision (1989-2002).$tFrom COCU to churches uniting in Christ --$tRemembering the church that never came to be --$tStill needed-a new church for a new nation --$gAppendices:$t"A proposal toward the reunion of Christ's church" /$rEugen Carson Blake --$t"Response" /$rJames A. Pike --$tAbbreviations of church names --$tCOCU timeline of meetings.
520 $a"During a forty-year period ending in 2002, leaders of major American churches tried to unite their members, ministries, and public service in a new church they named A Church of Christ Uniting. Participating in this movement were four Methodist Churches, the Episcopal Church, the nation's largest Presbyterian Church, the United Church of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and the International Council of Community Churches. With a membership of close to twenty million, this church would have been spread throughout the nation more fully than any other church except the Roman Catholic. Leaders of the movement believed that this union would enable church members to experience their Christian life more fully. It would heal divisions that had existed since the Protestant Reformation 450 years earlier and displace the denominational system that was increasingly dysfunctional. By coming together in a new way, these churches could work more effectively at overcoming problems in American life-especially the challenges related to racism. Although the Consultation on Church Union (COCU) closed before converting its vision into a new form of the church, it had a significant effect on these churches and the nation. This is a story that needs to be remembered"--$cProvided by publisher.
590 $bArchive
610 20 $aConsultation on Church Union.
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700 1 $aKinnamon, Michael,$ewriter of foreword.
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$nBK0016011897
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