open communion
Americannoun
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To many an Anglican and High Episcopalian, "open communion" is fraught with danger.
From Time Magazine Archive
What draws congregations to City Temple is not chiefly its freedom from dogmatism or its open communion, but its high standard of preaching.
From Time Magazine Archive
The upshot of this whole matter was, that I was soon cited before my "church conference" to answer a charge of heresy, in holding to the doctrine of "open communion."
From From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography by Ashley, George T.
Although Stoddard was a strict Calvinist, there can be no doubt that his method of open communion slowly led to theological modifications.
From Unitarianism in America by Cooke, George Willis
In 1894 a conference of General Synod pastors in, and in the vicinity of, Pittsburgh published, in substance, the declaration: "We have open communion, and invite to it all members of the Evangelical Protestant Churches."
From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
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