RT Article
T1 The Servant Lord and his Servant People
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 12
IS 2
SP 113
OP 128
A1 Mudge, Lewis S. 1929-2009
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1959
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785542257
AB The ‘themes’ of church conferences are often no more than umbrellas which, if they conveniently gather together the business to be discussed, also tend to shelter the discussions too effectively from sunlight and storms. Fortunately, the more cloying slogans are generally short-lived, and therefore harmless. Truth will out in the long run even if it does not appear at a given ecumenical meeting. On the other hand, if a conference theme does express a biblical truth uncommonly well, the fact that the meeting is soon over may render that insight quite prematurely out of fashion. Perhaps it is no service to a really good idea for it to be made the watchword of an international conference. Yet there is the possibility that time, place and thinking may coalesce in such a way that the insights of a congress may become a permanent gain for Christian thought.
DO 10.1017/S0036930600010838