Ecumenical Responsibility

Abstract

"THERE are many who are fond of pointing out that the Ecumenical Movement is supported by a comparatively small group of committed people, while the majority of church members in every denomination remain as yet uninformed and unconcerned. They are right-in spite of encouraging signs of real advance during the past five years. And when they go on to assert that the Ecumenical Movement misses its true purpose if it fails to find expression at the level of local church life, they are saying something even more important. A crucial question persists, however, although it seems usually to be curiously evaded. Who is responsible for this state of affairs, and how is the necessary progress to be achieved"