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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
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      "chunk_data": "189.\nRESOLUTION OF THE PRATHINIDHI MANDALAM\nOF THE MAR THOMA CHURCH ON INTER-COMMUNION\nWITH THE CHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA (1958 A.D.)\nThe Prathinidhi Mandalam, the supreme authority of the Mar\nThoma Church, took the following action relative to relations with\nthe Church of South India. Cited in C. E. Abraham, ed., The Mar\nThoma Syrian Church and The Church of India and The Church of\nSouth India, pp. 43-44.",
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      "chunk_data": "Formula\n(a) Each Communion believes the other to hold the essentials\nof the Christian faith and recognises the other as part of the Universal\nChurch.",
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        "event": "The two Communions affirmed that each held the essentials of the Christian faith and belonged to the Universal Church.",
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      "chunk_data": "(1) The Mar Thoma Church believes that Episcopal integra-\ntion of the ministry of the C.S.I. is essential for full inter-com-\nmunion.",
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        "event": "The Mar Thoma Church declared episcopal integration of the Church of South India's ministry essential for full inter-communion.",
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      "chunk_data": "(2) The Mar Thoma Church recognises that among its\nmembers there are those who have objection to receiving Holy\nCommunion celebrated by the non-episcopally ordained ministers\nof the C.S.I. and those who do not have such objection. The Mar\nThoma Church respects those differences even as the C.S.I. by its\npledge (Constitution 2.13) guarantees to respect the consciences\nof those who wish to receive Holy Communion only from episco-\npally ordained ministers.",
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        "event": "The Mar Thoma Church acknowledged differing views among its members regarding Communion celebrated by non-episcopally ordained C.S.I. ministers and affirmed respect for those differences.",
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      "chunk_data": "(c) Intercommunion does not require from either Communion\nthe acceptance of all doctrinal formulations, sacramental devotion\nor liturgical practices of the other.",
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        "event": "The resolution clarified that intercommunion did not require either Communion to accept all the other's doctrines, sacramental devotions, or liturgical practices.",
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      "chunk_data": "Rules of Comity\n(a) At conferences of students and clergy and at ecumenical\ngatherings members of either Church may participate in the Holy\nCommunion when the celebrant is of the other Church, as it pro-\nmotes fellowship.",
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        "event": "Members of either Church were permitted to participate in Holy Communion at student, clergy, and ecumenical gatherings when the celebrant belonged to the other Church.",
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      "chunk_data": "(b) Ministers of either Church shall have authority and discretion\nto admit to the Holy Communion communicant members of good\nstanding in the other Church in places where they have no access\nto the ministrations of the Church to which they belong. Members\nof either Church desiring to avail themselves of this privilege shall\npreviously give notice of their intention to the minister concerned\nand shall produce to him a certificate from their own minister as to\ntheir communicant status and good standing in the Church to which\nthey belong.",
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        "event": "Ministers were authorized to admit communicant members of the other Church when those members lacked access to their own Church's ministrations, subject to notice and certification.",
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      "chunk_data": "(c) In places where a member has access to the ministrations of\nhis own Church, he should generally be discouraged from communi-\ncating in the other Church. However very exceptional cases may\nbe allowed if his own minister approves of his being admitted to the\nHoly Communion of the other Church. In such cases procedure\nlaid down in rule 'b' shall be followed.",
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        "event": "Members with access to their own Church's ministrations were generally discouraged from receiving Communion in the other Church, except with their own minister's approval.",
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      "chunk_data": "(d) Persons seeking to change their membership from the Mar\nThoma Church to the C.S.I. or vice versa shall in no case be\nadmitted to such new membership until they produce a certificate\nsigned by the diocesan Bishop of the Church to which they have\nbelonged hitherto. Such certificates shall not ordinarily be issued\nuntil a period of at least three months has elapsed after it has been\napplied for.",
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        "event": "Applicants changing membership between the Mar Thoma Church and the C.S.I. were required to provide a certificate from their former diocesan Bishop, normally after a three-month waiting period.",
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      "chunk_data": "(e) The same procedure shall be followed in the case of those\nwho may seek admission into the C.S.I. or the Mar Thoma Church\neven from any other Church, if they were members of the C.S.I.\nor Mar Thoma Church, at any period within three years before",
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        "event": "The resolution extended the same membership-transfer procedure to persons entering either Church from another Church who had belonged to the C.S.I. or Mar Thoma Church within the preceding three years.",
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