# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S498
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

498 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

argumentation.” (Mo, Proceedings 1941, pp. 277 ff.). Also, the

2. After Synod’s Committee in 1947 had reported a “manifest
lack of doctrinal unity” between our body and the ALC, the Com-
mittee was instructed to “make every effort to arrive ultimately

viduals, by a majority vote, with the statement that “agreement
has been achieved in the doctrines treated,” noting only that “not

tion, however, adopted a modified statement: “Progress toward
unity of doctrine has been achieved” (p. 534). The same conven-

to the pastors, teachers, and congregations of Synod (p. 539). That
report has not yet been received. In view of these circumstances,
is it permissible to speak of “doctrinal agreement”?

4. The president of the ALC has declared that differences
“remaining to be ironed out” for the final merger of the AL Con-
ference bodies “have ‘nothing to do with doctrine and practice.”

5. The president of the ALC declared to the 1954 convention
of his church that there is “complete agreement” between The
Common Confession and the United Testimony on Faith and Life,
the doctrinal basis of the merger within the AI, Conference, while,
on the other hand, officers of the Missouri Synod have publicly

6. The American Lutheran Church continues to lend its ap-

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