Filioque Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Anglican Communion=== Three [[Lambeth Conferences]] (1888, 1978 and 1988) have recommended that the ''Filioque'' be dropped from the Nicene Creed by churches that belong to the Anglican Communion.<!--<ref name=MacKinlay />--> The 1930 Lambeth Conference initiated formal theological dialogue between representatives of the Anglican and Orthodox churches.<ref name="KennedyKennedy2008">{{cite book|author1=David J. Kennedy|author2=David Kennedy|title=Eucharistic Sacramentality in an Ecumenical Context: The Anglican Epiclesis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6twuk5c8OSYC&pg=PA87|year=2008|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-6376-8|page=87}}</ref> In 1976, the Agreed Statement of the Anglican-Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Commission recommended that the ''Filioque'' should be omitted from the Creed because its inclusion had been effected without the authority of an Ecumenical Council.{{sfn|AOJDC|1976|loc=nn. 19β21}} In 1994, the General Convention of the [[Episcopal Church (US)]] resolved that the ''Filioque'' should be deleted from the Nicene Creed in the next edition of the [[Book of Common Prayer|Prayer Book]].<ref name="ArmentroutSlocum2005">{{cite encyclopedia|year=2005|orig-year=1999|title=Filioque|editor1-last=Armentrout|editor1-first=Duncy S.|editor2-last=Slocum|editor2-first=Robert Boak|encyclopedia=An Episcopal dictionary of the church: a user-friendly reference for Episcopalians|location=New York|publisher=Church Publishing|isbn=978-0-89869-211-2|page=203|url=http://archive.episcopalchurch.org/109399_14370_ENG_HTM.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104041452/http://archive.episcopalchurch.org/109399_14370_ENG_HTM.htm|archive-date=4 November 2014|url-status=dead|via=episcopalchurch.org|access-date=12 November 2015}}</ref> The enthronement ceremonies of four recent [[archbishops of Canterbury]] ([[Robert Runcie]], [[George Carey]], [[Rowan Williams]], [[Justin Welby]]) included recitations of the Nicene Creed that omitted the ''Filioque''; this has been considered to have been "a gesture of friendship toward Orthodox guests and their Communions".<ref name="Buchanan2006">{{cite book|last=Buchanan|first=Colin Ogilvie|title=Historical dictionary of Anglicanism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5Ig4SDJFgkC&pg=PA187|year=2006|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5327-0|page=187}} Note: Published before [[Justin Welby]]'s enthronement</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.anglicannews.org/media/1041790/enthronementservice-v2-print_1.pdf |title=The Inauguration Of The ministry Of The One Hundred And Fifth Archbishop Of Canterbury Justin Portal Welby |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Anglican Communion News Service |publication-date=2013-03-21 |page=32 }}</ref> At the end of October 2017 theologians from the Anglican Communion and Oriental Orthodox Churches signed an agreement on the Holy Spirit. This is the culmination of discussions which began in 2015. The statement of agreement confirms the omission of the Filioque clause.<ref name="angl_Hist">{{Cite web | title = Historic Anglican β Oriental Orthodox agreement on the Holy Spirit signed in Dublin | work = anglicannews.org | date = 2 November 2017 | access-date = 2 November 2017 | url = http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/11/historic-anglican-oriental-orthodox-agreement-on-the-holy-spirit-signed-in-dublin.aspx }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page