ABSTRACT
To evaluate the extent to which the provisional-Church concept may have taken hold within ecumenical circles generally we now turn to the World Council of Churches, the central clearing-house for considerable formal dialogue and ecumenical activity. If sufficient agreement on the concept’s acceptable parameters has developed, the WCC’s statements and studies should provide some record and perhaps an overview of the extent to which denominational Churches and groupings have dealt with the concept in ecumenical work.
