| Repository | Lambeth Palace Library |
| Level | Subfonds |
| Alt Ref No | LC 17-37a |
| Extent | 21 vols., 1 item |
| Title | Lambeth Conference 1888 |
| Date | 1888 |
| AdminHistory | Held under Archbishop Benson. The principal subjects discussed and reported on at the Conference were:
Authorities and formularies for Christian doctrine and worship including the creeds, Book of Common Prayer, and 39 Articles.
Divorce including remarriage of divorcees and admission to Holy Communion.
Home Reunion: reunion of English-speaking Christians including Nonconformists; the Lambeth quadrilateral - as a basis of reunion.
Organisation of the Anglican Communion including church discipline; central council of reference or court of appeal; adaptation of the Book of Common Prayer for Colonial and Missionary Churches; attitude to clergy working in the Colonies, and use of title of archbishop.
Pastoral care of emigrants.
Polygamy of heathen converts: particularly the withholding of baptism from practising polygamists.
Relations of the Anglican Communion with the Eastern Churches: the Greek and Russian Orthodox and the separate Churches of the East (Copts, Abyssinian, Chaldean and Syrian).
Relations of the Anglican Communion with other Churches: the Scandinavian Churches particularly the Church of Sweden; the Old Catholics; the church reform movements in France, Italy, Portugal and
Spain; the Horavians (Unitas Fratrum).
Religious instruction of the laity, particularly the young (definite teaching of the Faith to all classes...).
Sexual purity: including chastity, sanctity of marriage, and sexual morality.
Socialism.
Sunday observance.
Temperance, including total abstinence. |
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| Code | Name | Dates |
| 167 | Lambeth Conference; 1888 | 1888 |
| 17 | Benson; Edward White (1829-1896); Archbishop of Canterbury | 1829-1896 |