1. The report and papers from this meeting have been published in Costly Unity,Thomas F. Best and Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, eds., WCC, Geneva, Unit III and Faith and Order/I, 1993.

2. Faith and Order: The Report of the Third World Conference at Lund, Sweden: August 15-28, 1952, Faith and Order Paper No. 15, O. S. Tomkins, ed., London, SCM Press, 1953, pp. 5-6.

3. The statement, submitted to Section II on "What Unity Requires" of the Fifth WCC Assembly in Nairobi (1975), insisted that "An ecclesiastical unity which would stand in the way of struggles for liberation would be a repressive unity...We must resolutely refuse any too easy forms of unity..." See Uniting in Hope: Commission on Faith and Order, Accra 1974, Faith and Order Paper No. 72, pp. 93-94.

4. See note 1.

5. Church and World: The Unity of the Church and the Renewal of Human Community, Faith and Order Paper No. 151, 2nd, rev. printing, Geneva, WCC Publications, 1992.

6. On the Way to Fuller Koinonia: Official Report of the Fifth World Conference on Faith and Order, Thomas F. Best and Günther Gassmann, eds., Faith and Order Paper No. 166, WCC Publications, Geneva, 1994.

7. Signs of the Spirit: Official Report, Seventh Assembly, World Council of Churches, Michael Kinnamon, ed., Geneva and Grand Rapids, WCC Publications and Eerdmans, 1991.

8. On the Way to Fuller Koinonia, op. cit., pp. 263-295.

9. Para. 1, p. 269.

10. "The Unity of the Church as Koinonia: Gift and Calling", most recently available in On the Way to Fuller Koinonia, op. cit., para. 3.2, p. 270.

11. Chapter IV, para. 32, p. 49

12. Report of Group IV, para. 25. See On the Way to Fuller Koinonia, op. cit., p. 259.

13. Para. 1.3. See On the Way to Fuller Koinonia, op. cit., p. 269.

14. Report of Group IV, para 25. See On the Way to Fuller Koinonia, op. cit.

15. Para. 29.

16. Church and World, op. cit., Chapter III, para. 1, p. 22.

17. Santiago, Report of Group IV, para. 8. See On the Way to Fuller Koinonia, op. cit., p. 255.

18. Faith and Order Paper No. 111, Geneva, World Council of Churches, 1982, "Eucharist", para. 20, p. 14.

19. Report of Group IV, para. 32. See On the Way to Fuller Koinonia, op. cit., p. 260.

20. Para. 42.

21. Ibid, para. 44.

22. Para. 19.

23. "Eucharist", para. 20, p. 14. (See also paras. 2-26, pp. 10-15).

24. "Eucharist", para. 1, p. 10.

25. Costly Unity, op. cit., para. 1.

26. The final report from the study process may be enhanced by an excursus on Biblical material relating to this theme.

27.The final report from the study process may be enhanced by an excursus on Biblical material relating to this theme.

28. The final report may be enhanced by an excursus on the "Haustafeln" in the Pastoral Letters, including reference to John Howard Yoder's The Politics of Jesus.

29. Cf.Costly Unity, op. cit., para. 5.

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