Council on the Christian Faith and Common Life (CCFCL)

This material is held atLambeth Palace Library

Scope and Content

Includes records generated by the Council’s foundation and also its financial and operational activities. Also includes Council's committees meeting papers .

Administrative / Biographical History

The Oxford and Edinburgh Conferences of 1937-1938 led to calls for the setting-up of a World Council of Churches (WCC) and the subsequent founding of a Council on the Christian Faith and Common Life (CCFCL) in 1938.

In 1942 CCFCL amalgamated with the Commission of the Churches for International Friendship and Social Responsibility (CCIFSR) to form a single body, namely the British Council of Churches (BCC).

Arrangement

Arranged into 7 series

CCFCL/1/1 inauguration of

CCFCL/2/1 minutes of council

CCFCL/2/2 minutes of business committee

CCFCL/2/3 minutes of ecumencial sub committee

CCFCL/4/1 accounts

CCFCL/7/1 operational files

CCFCL/10/1 Newsletters

CCFCL/12/1 press-cuttings

Access Information

Open

Appraisal Information

Material to be kept permanently

Accruals

No further accruals expected

Bibliography

Thirty Years of the British Council of Churches 1942-1972 by Earnest A Payne