A Blueprint for the Independent Sacramental Movement
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A Blueprint for the Independent Sacramental Movement
A concise, research-based blueprint for Independent Sacramental Movement (ISM) churches and leaders.
It distils global data on faith identity vs. church participation and names the documented reasons for disengagement, then offers a collaborative, pastoral strategy with clear sections—What we can do / Why it matters / How to do it—plus an early-church framing and guidance on intercommunion. Fully referenced with clickable sources.
About “Independent Sacramental Movement” (ISM):
The term arose in late-20th-century scholarship as a neutral way to describe independent Catholic, Old Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican-style churches with apostolic succession outside Rome, Canterbury, or Constantinople. It replaced older, often dismissive labels like episcopi vagantes and has since been used in works such as Independent Sacramental Bishops and Sacramental Whine.
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 — free to adapt with attribution, non-commercial use, share alike.
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