BEM

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• I note in particular the growing mutual recognition of baptism; a common liturgical renewal reflecting the convergence in BEM, especially around the Eucharist; and the effects of BEM on new series of full and intercommunion agreements between churches.

  Academic text (2015)

• According to BEM, it is "appropriate" that the eucharist should take place at least every Sunday.

  Academic text (2015)

• Thus, ecclesiology became the major emphasis of Faith and Order following BEM.

  Academic text (2015)

• The longer-term reception will be living into the "common vision" in the ways that churches lived into the vision of BEM.

  Academic text (2015)

• I have met people who were part of Faith and Order and who were present at Lima in 1982 when BEM was approved as a convergence text.

  Academic text (2015)

• An important stage in Faith and Order reflection on the church began after 1982 with the formal responses of the churches to BEM, the first Faith and Order convergence text.

  Academic text (2015)

• I was a student at the Toronto School of Theology in 1982 when BEM was published, and I remember its place in the academic curriculum and the general mood of ecumenical excitement.

  Academic text (2015)

• While perhaps the least well-received part of BEM was the section on ministry, especially its teaching on episcopacy, it had an impact on Lutheran-Anglican relationships in both countries.

  Academic text (2015)

• BEM's "Ministry," no. 34, is cited for its many-stranded description of apostolicity in the Church.

  Academic text (2013)

• Many theologians and church leaders discussed BEM, which represents a significant step towards unity among Christian denominations.

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