During the twentieth century, the Church of England periodically established a doctrine commission to report on an important theological question.
[1] In early years the commissions appear to have been appointed solely by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
[3] In the early 1980s the House of Bishops took a greater interest in the work of the doctrine commission and the report We Believe in God (1987) was published "under its authority".
[6] Following the resignation of Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury in 2012 the English theologian John Milbank called for the foundation of an international doctrine commission.
[7] This body would be designed to serve the entire Anglican communion and would mirror the Catholic International Theological Commission which was founded in 1969.