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Author | : John A. Radano |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2012-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802867057 |
Modern ecumenism traces its roots back to the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh. Celebrating a Century of Ecumenism brings readers up to date on one hundred years of global dialogue between many different church traditions, including Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Evangelical, Orthodox, Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Oriental Orthodox, and more. Eighteen essays by authors representing a wide spectrum of denominational interests outline the achievements of this movement toward unity. The first part of the book focuses on multilateral dialogue that involved a variety of churches attempting to delineate common ground, with considerable progress reported. The second part describes bilateral discussions between two churches or groups of churches. Celebrating a Century of Ecumenism is one small marker along the way to the unity that many Christians desire, and the report it provides will encourage those involved in ecumenical discussions. Contributors: S. Wesley Ariarajah Peter C. Bouteneff Ralph Del Colle Lorelei F. Fuchs Donna Geernaert Jeffrey Gros Helmut Harder William Henn Margaret O'Gara John A. Radano Cecil M. Robeck Jr. Ronald G. Roberson William G. Rusch Mary Tanner Geoffrey Wainwright Jared Wicks Susan K. Wood
Author | : Catholic Church. Pontificium Consilium ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Christian union |
ISBN | : 9780851838908 |
Author | : Walter Kasper |
Publisher | : New City Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1565482638 |
This Handbook offers practical suggestions for implementing and strengthening spiritual ecumenism, the heart of all efforts to re-unite divided Christians. It is grounded in the documents that have shaped the Catholic ChurchÂ’s engagement in seeking Christian unity, those of the Second Vatican Council, as well as others such as the encyclical Ut Unum Sint and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. A Handbook of Spiritual Ecumenism is written for anyone who values deeply the restoration of Christian unity, especially those responsible for promoting it at various levels of Church life. Cardinal Kasper extends a loving invitation to Christians of all traditions, encouraging them to join their Catholic brothers and sisters in prayer and action for unity.
Author | : Peter C. Phan |
Publisher | : Paragon House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
How has Christian tradition developed its understanding of the problem of salvation for non-Christians? How do the Christian churches appraise the spiritual values of those other religions whose members collectively make up the majority of mankind? Christianity and the Wider Ecumenism explores the growing shift from efforts toward unity within Christianity to broader, more far-reaching attempts at greater harmony among world religions (the "wider ecumenism"). Editor Peter Phan traces the trend back to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) but notes that, in the last ten years or so, the movement has become pronounced. in addition to Vatican II, the World Council of Churches has established a Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and ideologies. Also, the growing number of courses on campus in comparative religions testifies to the critical importance of interfaith studies and dialogue in our religiously plural world. Despite resistance by some Christians to this new trend, there is a willingness on the part of others to support the "wider ecumenism," even to abandon any claim to Christ's/Christianity's uniqueness, definitiveness, absoluteness, and superiority. They rightly point to the need for faith in God as Absolute Mystery, to Christian praxis in favor of justice and freedom, and to the enormous historical suffering and conflicts, caused by the myth of Christian uniqueness. They add that we live today in a world village in which dialogue with other religionists and societies, as full equals, is imperative, perhaps for our very survival. Not mere contact but active cooperation and mutual understanding is required now more than ever to deal with urgent global issues involving mass poverty and starvation, religious fanaticism, the threat to the environment, and the omnipresent danger of nuclear destruction. These problems are far too important to be left to governments. The essays in this volume are the Product of fifty leading scholars, from across the Christian spectrum, seeking to clarify and to affirm the immense significance of interreligious dialogue for Christianity in our new planetary society.
Author | : Paul Murray |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2010-05-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0191615293 |
This volume proposes a fresh strategy for ecumenical engagement - 'Receptive Ecumenism' - that is fitted to the challenges of the contemporary context and has already been internationally recognised as making a distinctive and important new contribution to ecumenical thought and practice. Beyond this, the volume tests and illustrates this proposal by examining what Roman Catholicism in particular might fruitfully learn from its ecumenical others. Challenging the tendency for ecumenical studies to ask, whether explicitly or implicitly, 'What do our others need to learn from us?', this volume presents a radical challenge to see ecumenism move forward into action by highlighting the opposite question 'What can we learn with integrity from our others?' This approach is not simply ecumenism as shared mission, or ecumenism as problem-solving and incremental agreement but ecumenism as a vital long-term programme of individual, communal and structural conversion driven, like the Gospel that inspires it, by the promise of conversion into greater life and flourishing. The aim is for the Christian traditions to become more, not less, than they currently are by learning from, or receiving of, each other's gifts. The 32 original essays that have been written for this unique volume explore these issues from a wide variety of denominational and disciplinary perspectives, drawing together ecclesiologists, professional ecumenists, sociologists, psychologists, and organizational experts.
Author | : Jill K. Gill |
Publisher | : Northern Illinois University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780875804439 |
The Vietnam War and its polarizing era challenged, splintered, and changed The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCC), which was motivated by its ecumenical Christian vision to oppose that war and unify people. The NCC's efforts on the war exposed its strengths and imploded its weaknesses in ways instructive for religious institutions that bring their faith into politics. Embattled Ecumenism explores the ecumenical vision, anti- Vietnam War efforts, and legacy of the NCC. Gill's monumental study serves as a window into the mainline Protestant manner of engaging political issues at a unique time of national crisis and religious transformation. In vibrant prose, Gill illuminates an ecumenical institution, vision, and movement that has been largely misrepresented by the religious right, dismissed by the secular left, misunderstood by laity, and ignored by scholars outside of ecumenical circles. At a time when the majority of scholarly work is committed to looking at the religious right, Gill's groundbreaking study of the Protestant Left is a welcome addition. Embattled Ecumenism will appeal to scholars of U.S. religion, politics, and culture, as well as historians of evangelicalism and general readers interested in U.S. history and religion.
Author | : Timothy T. N. Lim |
Publisher | : Theology and Mission in World |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004347366 |
In Ecclesial Recognition, Hegelian philosophy, group social psychology, and Axel Honneth's recognitional politics provide insights to facilitate the churches' progress to recognize each other as legitimate, true churches. Yves Congar's oeuvre confirms the intersubjective dynamics of ecclesial inclusion and exclusion.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Christian union |
ISBN | : |
Manthanathu John Joseph, b. 1941, former director of Ecumenical Christian Centre, Bangalore; contributed articles.
Author | : Mary R. Sawyer |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
This is a book about the Black Church and about black involvement and participation in ecumenical activities that serve as proponents and agents of change. As such, it stands as a unique contribution to an expanded, comprehensive perspective on an understanding of black experience in America and the Black Church's role in that experience.
Author | : George Joseph K PhD |
Publisher | : GOD JESUS PROOF ACADEMY |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
Ecumenism has obscured the truth of the bible and the church. Ecumenism is against the uniqueness of Jesus Christ and his gospel. Ecumenicals are against the Christian mission and evangelism. Visible organizational unity of the church and also the unity of all other religions are their major objectives. Hence the unification of the religious groups is falsely considered as the mission of the Church. The contemporary false ecumenism is the embodiment of the degeneration of the concept of unity in spirit to organizational unity. It is the solution of man, not of God. It is the master stroke of devil which plunged the Church deep into unbelief. Emphasis is shifted from the Biblical mission of evangelism to efforts toward mobilizing a visible Church organization. All energy is spent on the organizational affairs of the Church. Evangelism was replaced by Church management. The modern ecumenical liberal theology is influenced by the philosophies of the world. Here preference is given to the views of men not of god. Ecumenism takes the unfortunate and cowardly stand that since other views do not accept us, we must change and adopt some of their beliefs, conglomerate or syncretize, so that we can move toward a peaceful coexistence. This means the ecumenical want the Christians to surrender our convictions to those who have a different set of beliefs. Their marathon dialogues with other faiths ultimately end up in compromising or even denying the uniqueness of Christ and declaring moratorium on the proclamation of gospel. Modern ecumenical theology is pluralistic, relativistic, subjectivistic, inclusivistic and universalistic for destroying the objective and exclusive claims of Jesus Christ. New age is in the Church under the garb of modern liberal theology. Liberal theology facilitates the infiltration of the new age movement and pantheistic mysticism into the church through environmentalism. Environmental protection including love and concern for animals are major issues on the agenda of the ecumenicals. Modern liberal theology is the product of the new age philosophy. It has deviously misdirected the mission of the church into social work, environmental protection, and ecumenism. There is relationship between contemporary ecumenical movement, one world religion, antichrist and the ideology of liberal theology. Ecumenism is the program for the unity of world religions for the rule of false prophet and antichrist. Ecumenicals are the agents of antichrist for forming the world religion by fusing Christianity with other religions. The world religious system will try its level best, through all subtle ways and means, to eliminate the pure gospel from the face of the earth. True unity cannot be accomplished by pretending that there are no differences, but only by recognizing and respecting those differences, while focusing on the great truths of Christian faith. Here in this book, one of the biggest attacks on the Christian truth is exposed.