The 1920 Lambeth Conference viewed the Anglican Communion’s confederated structure among autonomous churches as a model for the future organic reunion that its famous Appeal proposed. This article examines the Conference’s discussion of this model, as well as an influential early critique of the model, written by Yves Congar in 1937. More recent conflicts within the Anglican Communion, as well as analyses of these conflicts, have confirmed some of the practical aspects of Congar’s critique, even while Roman Catholic self-reflection has moved beyond his own early alternatives. In conjunction with Roman Catholic rethinking of the nature of oversight, the Appeal’s challenge, after 100 years, now appears to lie in the direction of a more radical restructuring of Anglican ecclesial life than its authors originally anticipated.

1920年的兰贝斯会议将圣公会的自治教堂中的邦联结构视为其著名的呼吁所提出的未来有机聚会的典范。本文考察了会议对这种模式的讨论，以及对该模式的有影响力的早期批评，该模式由伊夫·康加尔（Yves Congar）在1937年撰写。圣公会内部最近发生的冲突以及对这些冲突的分析都证实了一些实际可行的方法。孔加批评的一些方面，即使罗马天主教徒的自我反思已经超越了他自己的早期选择。结合罗马天主教徒对监督性质的重新思考，上诉经过了100年，现在的挑战似乎是朝着比其作者最初预期的更彻底地重组英国国教教会生活的方向。