"On Being Christian Together": U.S. Faith and Order Commission Celebrates 50 Years-Oberlin College, July 19-23, 2007

II, as it quickly came to be called, convened on a glorious summer weekend amidst the rich historic legacy of this Ohio college campus. Commemorating the conference here in 1957 that marked the official beginning of the Faith and Order movement in North America, this fiftieth-anniversary celebration looked back in gratitude but with a clear focus on the nature of the ongoing work ahead. For four days, the conference's 300 participants heard papers from leading ecumenical scholars, participated in discussion sessions, viewed films, and gathered for prayer, all the while creating and renewing relationships that reached across lines of denominational and confessional difference. Together, they traced the fifty-year journey of the Faith and Order experience in the United States and laid the groundwork for its continuing mission. broader Faith and Order movement traces its origins to the 1910 World Missionary in Edinburgh. During this gathering, delegates from numerous denominations and missionary societies recognized the need to address doctrinal differences--and different Christian bodies' understanding of the significance of those differences--in a more intentional and focused way. impetus for a conference focusing on theological and doctrinal concerns thus emerged from this conference, especially through the leadership of U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church bishop Charles H. Brent, serving at that time as bishop for the Philippine Islands. Brent encouraged his own denomination to issue the call for a Conference for the consideration of questions touching Faith and Order, (1) in which all Christian bodies would be invited to take part. Due both to the uncertainty and chaos occasioned by World War I and to the challenges inherent in the implementation of such a conference, the first World on Faith and Order did not take place until 1927, in Lausanne, Switzerland; it was followed ten years latter by a gathering in Edinburgh. In 1948, the Faith and Order movement came together with the parallel Life and Work movement (focused on social witness) to form the World Council of Churches. Subsequent Faith and Order conferences were held under the auspices of the W.C.C., though participants were drawn from a wider array of Christian bodies. With the 1957 Oberlin conference, meeting September 3-19 of that year around the theme, The Nature of the Unity We Seek, the work of Faith and Order was launched officially in the North American context. gathering brought together nearly 300 representatives from a broad range of Christian bodies, including Orthodox, Anglicans, Reformed, Lutherans, Adventists, Methodists, Baptists, and Holiness churches, as well as two Roman Catholic observers. newly elected dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, J. Robert Nelson, in his opening plenary speech articulated the mandate for both the conference and the continuing work of Faith and Order: ... in our time we have learned the value, indeed the necessity of drawing the separate Churches and their leaders out of physical, intellectual and spiritual isolation into encounter and communion with their brethren in Christ. This is the work of the ecumenical movement generally and the Faith and Order Commission in particular. So here we are, gathered to listen to one another, and thus to hear what the one Spirit of God says to the Churches. (2) legacy of Oberlin I has been carried forward under the auspices of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. through the work of its Faith and Order Commission. pioneering impact of the Oberlin conference was felt particularly at the subsequent Fourth World of Faith and Order in Montreal in 1963, and its impulse toward unity was deepened by the official entrance of the Roman Catholic Church into ecumenical efforts through the actions of Vatican II (1962-65). Since 1957, the U. …

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