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Ecumenism: Gospel imperative, harsh reality, and pilgrim journey

Theology in Scotland, 2023
This paper offers a series of reflections on ecumenism today, first delivered on the occasion of the Shaw Lecture in St Andrews in February 2023. It begins with the gospel imperative of ecumenism, exploring its substance and its history.
Paul T. Nimmo
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What Does Queer Have to Do with Ecumenism? [PDF]

Ecumenical Review
Some observers claim that ecumenism has entered the season of winter and that ecumenism does not flourish as it has done in other periods. This article proposes that queer theory, an academic field that in different ways addresses and challenges ...
Linnea Helgesson
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Receptive Ecumenism as a Way Forward: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective

Religions, 2023
Receptive ecumenism is one of the most important contemporary methodologies of inter-Christian dialogue. The theological vision behind the concept of receptive ecumenism is a valuable source of inspiration for the revitalization of the culture of ...
Viorel Coman
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Oneness in John 17:1–26 as a paradigm for wider ecumenism and dialogue

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2022
This article re-reads John 17:1–26 with a focus on the theme of oneness within the micronarrative. A multilayered and polyvalent analysis of the text reveals that the theme of oneness holds the prayer together to suggest a new way forward for the ...
J. Thomaskutty
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Democracy and the Christian Churches: Ecumenism and the Politics of Belief [PDF]

, 2020
Who is entitled to define policy in the churches, why, and under what conditions? On 2 March 2010, Roman Catholic Bishop Huub Ernst of Breda, responding to a series of questions, reflected upon the...
Chris Dols
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Ecumenism in the perspective of globalization and postmodernism

Sociologija, 2020
This article views ecumenism both from the perspective of globalization and postmodernism. Introduction defines Christian ecumenism. The first segment of this article deals with the relationship between ecumenism and globalization, primarily with the ...
Drazen Pavlica
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From conciliar ecumenism to transformative receptive ecumenism

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2017
This article attends to ecumenicity as the second reformation. The ecumenical organisations and agencies hugely influenced the theological praxis and reflection of the church during the past century. The First World Council of Churches (WCC) Assembly in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has been described as the most significant event in church history since
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ECUMENISM IN AFRICA AND THE FUTURE OF THE CONTINENT

Scriptura, 2020
This article interprets recent events in Africa from the point of view of ecumenism. Ecumenism is understood as closer co-operation between churches, but also between Christianity and social issues.
D. Crafford
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Rethinking local ecumenism in Mberengwa in Zimbabwe through the social construct of ukama of the Karanga people

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Ecumenism refers to church or denominational relations and fellowship that seeks to maintain its nature of unity and oneness. Such movement is regarded as communion or cooperation that involves a visible unity with churches working together at different ...
Rabson Hove
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Liturgy’s outlook on the oikumene exposes distorted attitudes and memories of ecumenism

Verbum Et Ecclesia, 2023
Ferdi P. Kruger, B.J. De Klerk
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