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The Atonement and the Oneness of the Church1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

T. F. Torrance
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In August 1952 the Third World Conference on Faith and Order meeting at Lund, formulated its Ecumenical objective in terms like this: Our major differences clearly concern the doctrine of the Church, but let us penetrate behind the divisions of the Church on earth to our common faith in the one Lord. Let us start from the central fact that Jesus Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it, and by His Spirit made it His own Body. From the oneness of Christ we will try to understand the unity of the Church in Him and from the unity of Christ and His Body we will seek a means of realising that unity in the actual state of our divisions on earth. What is envisaged here is a thorough-going Christological criticism of our differences in order to open up the way for reformation and reunion of the Church in obedience to the one Lord.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1954 , pp. 245 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1954

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1 The Albrecht Stumpff Memorial Lecture delivered at the Queen's College, Birmingham, on 3rd May 1954. In this printed form the argument has been somewhat expanded.