Ecumenicism

Consultation on Church Union.

The 1970s opened with high hopes for closer relationships between various religious groups. The most obvious evidence was the developing plans for a merger of nine of the leading Mainline Protestant denominations in the Consultation on Church Union (COCU). Here representatives from the African Methodist Episcopal, the African Methodist Zion, and the Central Methodist Episcopal churches; the Christian church, or Disciples of Christ; the Episcopal church; the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.; the United Church of Christ; the United Methodist church; and the United Presbyterian church worked on a structure that would permit the creation of a denomination with about twenty-three million members. Observers found it interesting that the COCU denominations had lost nearly two million members since the project began a decade earlier.

Plan of Union.

In 1971 COCU sent its Plan of Union, a document...

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