The Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral is the Anglican Communion's own foundational statement of the essentials required for church unity, adopted as Resolution 11 of the 1888 Lambeth Conference from four articles the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops had put forward at Chicago in 1886, the holy scriptures, the Nicene and Apostles Creeds, the two sacraments Christ himself ordained, and the historic episcopate locally adapted. As the Anglican Communion's own adopted primary document it is the correct source for what this ecumenical standard actually states, in the Communion's own official language. Its limit is that it states a normative Anglican position rather than analyzing it, so a claim about how the Quadrilateral has actually functioned in specific ecumenical negotiations needs a scholarly historical source alongside this primary text.
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The Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral is the Lambeth Conference's own primary statement of Anglican unity principles, cited here as that primary text. NotesAdopted as Resolution 11 of the Lambeth Conference of 1888, from the four articles the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church put forward at Chicago in 1886. The four articles are the holy scriptures, the Nicene and Apostles Creeds, the two sacraments ordained by Christ, and the historic episcopate locally adapted in the methods of its administration.
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Custodian BodyThe Anglican Communion
Custodian BasisThe instrument a communion adopted in its own name. Authoritative for what the Anglican Communion holds in common, not independent evidence about it.
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AuthorThe Lambeth Conference
Publication Year1888
Source Typeprimary-text
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- Beliefs & Restrictions, 4 claims: 3 holds, 1 general references.
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