African Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR), 2016 This article explores ecumenism from below as demonstrated by women’s leagues in Zimbabwe and South Africa where Christians from different denominations worship together once every week.
Herbert Moyo
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Imaginative Ecumenism—Rethinking the Paradigm from an Anglican Perspective
Religions, 2023 This article reviews the history of the ecumenical movement from an English Anglican perspective, exploring its successes and limitations. It suggests that ecumenical aspirations risk being bogged down in incremental ecumenism, the pursuit of small steps
Jeremy Morris
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2012 The ecumenical movement seeks to achieve Christian unity through greater visible communion between the separated (or divided) institutional Churches of Christianity worldwide. The practice of ecumenism and ecumenical theology have developed principally at the doctrinal and theological levels.
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Christians’ Cut: Popular Religion and the Global Health Campaign for Medical Male Circumcision in Swaziland [PDF]
, 2017 Swaziland faces one of the worst HIV epidemics in the world and is a site for the current global health campaign in sub-Saharan Africa to medically circumcise the majority of the male population.
Golomski, Casey, Nyawo, Sonene
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The influence of Calvin’s theology on the Conventus of Reformational Churches in Southern Africa
In die Skriflig, 2010 The need for an ecumenical body for reformational churches in Southern Africa has been felt since the early 1990s. The key matter explored in this article is the question whether the composition and modus operandi of the Conventus reflect a trend in
C.J. Smit
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Ecumenical movement for millennials: A generation connected but not yet united
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 In this article the notion ‘ecumenism’ is defined as a connecting movement of reconciling diversity, and the focus is on young people, referred to as ‘millennials’ living in the present-day global village.
Yolanda Pantou
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The Relevance of Pusey’s Eirenicon Today: Intercommunion between Anglicans and Roman Catholics [PDF]
, 2017 This paper investigates how Edward Pusey, a nineteenth century Anglican clergy and scholar responded to Edward Manning’s claim that the Church of England is not an authentic church.
Duke, Emmanuel Orok
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Sociology of ecumenism: non-theological factors of emergence and development of ecumenical relations
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2008 Characteristic features of Christianity of the twentieth century were the consolidation of his denominations around social problems and holding inter-Christian theological and missionary conferences.
Oleh S. Kyselov
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An anatomy of change : profiling cohort difference in beliefs and attitudes among Anglicans in England [PDF]
, 2010 Conservatism in theological belief, moral values and attitude toward ecclesiastical practices was measured in a sample of 5967 ordained and lay Anglicans in the Church of England.
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‘Ecclesia reformata semper reformanda’ Church renewal from a Reformed perspective
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015 With a view to the theme of church renewal, this article explores the role of a well-known and popular phrase in the Reformed tradition within Protestantism, that is, ecclesia reformata semper reformanda [‘the reformed church should always be reformed’].
Leo J. Koffeman
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