formal doctrines of the church, concerning which the several Christian communions are deeply divided, as the inner relationships that link the church to Jesus Christ and to the Holy Spirit and which therefore bind the various communions together even in spite of themselves. In response to this demand, one commission was set up in America and one in Europe, under the following terms of reference: “To study the nature of the church in close relation both to the doctrine of the person and work of Christ
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