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Sister Churches

Sister Churches
Author: Janel Kragt Bakker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199328218

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In Sister Churches Janel Bakker draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with participants in congregation-to-congregation partnerships between Western churches and churches in the global South to explore the sister church movement and in particular its effects on American churches.


The Concept of "Sister Churches" in Catholic-Orthodox Relations since Vatican II

The Concept of
Author: Will T. Cohen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2017-09-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498299709

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Often invoked between Vatican II and the end of the twentieth century by both Orthodox and Catholic officials across their confessional division, the expression “sister churches” reflected their growing rapprochement, as well as a shift on the Catholic side from a more centralized ecclesiology to one more attentive to the local church and conciliarity. Pope John Paul II in his 1995 encyclical Ut Unum Sint spoke significantly of a “doctrine of sister churches” that would help guide the Catholic and Orthodox toward unity along a path of mutual respect rather than either tradition’s submission to the other. In his comprehensive treatment of the history of the expression “sister churches” over half a century of Catholic-Orthodox relations, Dr. Will Cohen explores why the concept developed as it did, why it was so fiercely contested, and what remains vital about the concept today. In the process, Dr. Cohen illuminates the ways in which Catholic and Orthodox ecclesiology, respectively, is each most capable of renewing and sustaining its proper balance when open to the authentic gifts of the other.


Changing Churches

Changing Churches
Author: Mickey L. Mattox
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-02-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0802866948

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Sharp controversies -- about biblical authority, the ordination of women, evangelical "worship styles," and the struggle for homosexual "inclusion" -- have rocked the Lutheran church in recent decades. In Changing Churches two men who once communed at the same Lutheran Eucharistic table explain their similar but different decisions to leave the Lutheran faith tradition -- one for Orthodoxy, the other for Roman Catholicism. Here Mickey L. Mattox and A. G. Roeber address the most difficult questions Protestants face when considering such a conversion, including views on justification, grace, divinization, the church and its authority, women and ministry, papal infallibility, the role of Mary, and homosexuality. They also discuss the long-standing ecumenical division between Rome and the Orthodox patriarchates, acknowledging the difficult issues that still confront those traditions from within and divide them from one another.


Communion of Churches and Petrine Ministry

Communion of Churches and Petrine Ministry
Author: Group of Farfa Sabina
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2014-12-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802871941

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The Roman Catholic papacy has long been a thorny issue dividing the ecumenical church. In this book several outstanding Lutheran and Catholic theologians, known collectively as the Group of Farfa Sabina, present the results of their five-year dialogue, showing how the papal (Petrine) ministry might actually serve to unify the worldwide communion of churches. Offering biblical, historical, and canonical analyses of key Vatican texts, this volume opens up paths to new and surprising Lutheran-Catholic convergences. The volume as a whole reflects the mutual commitment of Farfa Sabina members to shaping declarations of intent into effective realities.


Stolen Churches or Bridges to Orthodoxy?

Stolen Churches or Bridges to Orthodoxy?
Author: Vladimir Latinovic
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3030554589

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Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship –-not only theologically, but also politically. In most cases such relationships remain to this day; indeed, in some cases the tension has increased. In July 2019, scholars of both traditions gathered in Stuttgart, Germany, for an unprecedented conference devoted to exploring and overcoming the division between these churches. This book, the second in a two-volume set of the essays presented at the conference, explores the ecumenical and practical implications of the relationship between Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. Like the conference, the volume brings together representatives of these Churches, as well as theologians from different geographical contexts where tensions are the greatest. The published essays represent the great achievements of the conference: willingness to engage in dialogue, general openness to new ideas, and opportunities to address difficult questions and heal inherited wounds.


Partners, Sisters, and Twins

Partners, Sisters, and Twins
Author: Danny Hunter
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2023-07-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666767336

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Congregations are increasingly developing partnerships as a way of engaging directly in global missions. One of the most common ways they do this is forming relationships with congregations in other parts of the world. This book looks at the reasons that churches seek out missions partners, how the partnership phenomenon developed, and what beliefs, concepts, structures, and practices inform the healthiest mission partnerships. With insights drawn from a survey of churches from across the country and around the world, this book provides data-driven insights to guide the practice of international congregational partnerships.


Planting and Growing Urban Churches

Planting and Growing Urban Churches
Author: Harvie M. Conn
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 271
Release: 1997-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 080102109X

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Practical steps to take toward establishing vital churches in metropolitan areas amidst formidable challenges.


The Church and the Churches

The Church and the Churches
Author: G. R. Evans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2002-04-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521891608

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This book tackles the history of important ecclesiological issues across the denominational board.


The United Church Herald

The United Church Herald
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 684
Release: 1922
Genre: Christianity
ISBN:

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