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Stephen Platten, Did the Anglicans and Roman Catholics Agree on the Eucharist? A Revisit of the Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission’s Agreed Statements of 1971 and Related Documents. By Colin Buchanan, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 70, Issue 2, October 2019, Pages 934–936, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flz089
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The background to the establishment and work of the Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission is essential reading in understanding Colin Buchanan’s critique in this, his foray into the ARCIC process. Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher’s visit to Pope John XXIII, in 1960, was the first such visit for six hundred years and the first, by dint of that, since the Reformation. His visit was followed ‘hotfoot’ by that of Michael Ramsey in 1966, when he and Pope Paul VI jointly initiated both the ensuing theological dialogue and the establishment of the Anglican Centre in Rome. A ‘preparatory commission’ was set up whose work was summed up in the publication of the Malta Report of 1968. This recommended the establishment of a permanent commission to ‘distinguish between those differences which are merely apparent, and those which are real and require serious examination’. ARCIC I thus began its work in 1970 and the so-called Final Report was published in 1981.
