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Author | : Peter C. Phan |
Publisher | : Paragon House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Eugene Hillman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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By accepting the full implications of current salvation theology, Christians today are compelled to ask themselves precisely why they are Christians, and why they should be concerned at all about the existence of the Church anywhere and at any time. If the very same saving grace of Christ is universally available to all men simply because they are men, and if all religions manifest an anonymous but nonetheless effective operation of grace, then what exactly is the purpose of the Church in history? The answer--and thus the authentic meaning of the Christian vocation--is to be found only in a dynamic, pentecostal, evangelical, ecumenical, and sacramental relationship with all the others: the vast majority of human beings who must live and die with no one to tell them of Christ. Without this living relationship, and the far-reaching demands proceeding therefrom, our Christianity is simply the moribund culture-religion of Western man, and our churches are indeed the "sepulchres of God". For Christians are true to their calling, and the Church is alive, only to the extent that they exist for the whole of humanity.
Author | : Paul Murray |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2010-05-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0191615293 |
Download Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : M. A. Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 9788170861669 |
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Author | : Vicky Balabanski |
Publisher | : ATF Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 192564393X |
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This book is a response to the growing recognition of Receptive Ecumenism as a concept and process that has the potential to bring about the greater flourishing of the Church, both within denominations and across the Church universal.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Christian union |
ISBN | : |
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Manthanathu John Joseph, b. 1941, former director of Ecumenical Christian Centre, Bangalore; contributed articles.
Author | : Catholic Church. Pontificium Consilium ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Christian union |
ISBN | : 9780851838908 |
Download Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Steven R. Harmon |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1621892778 |
Download Ecumenism Means You, Too Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
By all accounts, the modern ecumenical movement is not moving much these days. Despite dramatic breakthroughs in the past few decades, the quest for a visibly united church--in which there is common confession of the apostolic faith, full Eucharistic communion, and mutual recognition of members and ministers--now meets with indifference by many, impatience by some, and outright hostility by others. In part, this is because the movement has not given enough attention to grassroots ecumenical engagement. This book is written to convince ordinary Christians, especially young Christian adults, that they too have a stake in the future of the ecumenical movement as its most indispensable participants. Ecumenism Means You, Too draws on the music of Irish rock band U2 to cast artistic light on various aspects of the quest for Christian unity. Whether one is a U2 fan or not, and whether one thinks the ecumenical movement is a good thing or a bad thing for the church, everyone who reads this book will learn something about the Christian theological framework apart from which neither the modern ecumenical movement nor the meaning of U2's music can be understood. The book includes an annotated bibliography of resources for ecumenical engagement and a glossary of key ecumenical terms for readers who want to learn more about the Christian practice of seeking the unity of the church.
Author | : Nicholas Sagovsky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2000-05-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139428381 |
Download Ecumenism, Christian Origins and the Practice of Communion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The theology of communion, or Koinonia, has been at the centre of the ecumenical movement for more than thirty years. It is central to the self-understanding of the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and has been prominent in the work of the World Council of Churches. This book, based on the 1996 Hulsean Lectures, examines the significance of Koinonia for contemporary ecumenical theology, tracing the development of contemporary understanding in critical engagement with the thoughts of Plato, Aristotle, the Hebrew Scriptures, the New Testament, the Cappadocian Fathers and Augustine. In each case, reflection on community life is related to actual communities in which texts were produced. The importance of conflict and the place of politics for the Koinonia that constitutes the Christian churches is a major theme throughout. Communion is seen as a gift to be received and a discipline to be cultivated in the continuing practice of ecumenism.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2020-09-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004437541 |
Download Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Essays written in honour of Brian Stanley on the entangled nature of ecumenism and independency in the modern global history of Christianity. They demonstrate transnational connectivity as well as local and contextual expressions of Christianity.