Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, Faith and Order Paper No. 111, published by the World Council of Churches' Commission on Faith and Order in Geneva in 1982, known as the Lima text, is a convergence statement drafted jointly by theologians from Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican, Protestant and free church traditions and formally sent to member churches for official response. Its strength is that it represents genuine cross-tradition theological work, stating what its diverse drafters judged the traditions could affirm together on baptism, eucharist and ministry, a rare document of its kind. Its limit is explicit in its own nature: it states what its drafters found possible to say jointly, not the settled teaching of any one tradition represented, so a claim about a specific church's own doctrine on these sacraments needs that church's own confessional statement rather than this ecumenical convergence text.
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The Lima text, published by the World Council of Churches' Commission on Faith and Order in 1982, is the ecumenical body's own primary convergence document jointly drafted by theologians across traditions, treated at the top tier as that primary record. NotesThe Lima text. A convergence statement drafted by theologians of the Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican, Protestant and free church traditions, sent to the churches for official response. It states what its drafters judged the traditions could say together, and is not the teaching of any one of them.
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AuthorWorld Council of Churches, Commission on Faith and Order
PublisherWorld Council of Churches, Geneva
Publication Year1982
Source Typeprimary-text
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