English Covenant

TheEnglish Covenantwas a proposed merger inEnglandof theChurch of England,theMethodist Church,theUnited Reformed Church(URC), and theMoravian Church.First published as anecumenicalinitiative in 1980 after extensive discussions in the 1970s, it eventually failed because the Church of England rejected the covenant in 1982.^[1]^[2]

In 1972, aChurches' Unity Commissionwas set up by church leaders. The commission publishedTen Propositions on Visible Unityin 1976, and suggested the creation of theChurches Council for Covenanting (for Unity).^[3]^[4]^[5]Responding to this document, five churches agreed to proceed with a plan for unity – the Church of England, the Methodist Church, the URC, and the Moravian Church, andChurches of Christ(which merged with the URC in 1981).^[1]The plan was generally welcomed by the Methodist Church. The URC, an ecumenically spirited denomination created in the same year as the commission, approved the initiative and sought to reorganize itself accordingly up to 1982.^[6]^[7]However, in the same year, theGeneral Synod of the Church of Englandfailed to secure the required two-thirdssupermajorityin theHouse of Clergy,even though the other two chambers of the synod had approved the plan.

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^^a ^bThompson, David M.; Briggs, John H. Y.; Turner, John Munsey (5 February 2015).Protestant Nonconformist Texts Volume 4: The Twentieth Century.Wipf and Stock Publishers.ISBN 9781498219181– via Google Books.
^The RevCaryl Micklem:Obituary inThe Independent,18 June 2003
^https://moodle.urc.org.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=2604^{[dead link]}
^THE STORY OF THE BCC. Notes by Colin Davey
^"Archived copy"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2019-10-10.Retrieved2019-10-10.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^Tony Tucker (2003).Reformed Ministry: Traditions of Ministry and Ordination in the United Reformed Church.ISBN 978-0853462170
^Camroux, Martin (27 May 2016).Ecumenism in Retreat: How the United Reformed Church Failed to Break the Mould.Wipf and Stock Publishers.ISBN 9781498234009– via Google Books.

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Churches' Council for Covenanting | The National Archives

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[briggs-1] Thompson, David M.; Briggs, John H. Y.; Turner, John Munsey (5 February 2015).Protestant Nonconformist Texts Volume 4: The Twentieth Century.Wipf and Stock Publishers.ISBN 9781498219181– via Google Books.

[2] The RevCaryl Micklem:Obituary inThe Independent,18 June 2003

[3] ttps://moodle.urc.org.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=2604^{[dead link]}

[4] THE STORY OF THE BCC. Notes by Colin Davey

[5] "Archived copy"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2019-10-10.Retrieved2019-10-10.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[6] Tony Tucker (2003).Reformed Ministry: Traditions of Ministry and Ordination in the United Reformed Church.ISBN 978-0853462170

[7] Camroux, Martin (27 May 2016).Ecumenism in Retreat: How the United Reformed Church Failed to Break the Mould.Wipf and Stock Publishers.ISBN 9781498234009– via Google Books.

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