Sentences with word «ecumenical»

But at the same time it has opened a new era of creative and active social thinking in ecumenical movements and social movements round the world.

Ker suggests, is because he was deeply versed in the history of ecumenical councils.

Faith in ecumenical structures of ministry has been waning.

In my mind we Christians have been trying to be a little too smart by half for a few centuries now and have forgotten that the early Christians decided things in ecumenical councils where the Spirit, if allowed, could move in hundreds of men to interpret Scripture.

As ecumenical as I fancy myself, however, I am still ambivalent about all the prayers to Mary.

Fifty years after the historical meeting of Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI, this new meeting aims to do more than commemorate the past.

This is not exactly news — female ordination among churches of the Lutheran World Federation has been a perennial strain on ecumenical relations with the Orthodox (and Roman Catholics for that matter) for some time.

In particular, the movement of some LWF churches to break with the Church's historic understanding of Scripture and natural law by blessing same - sex marriages and ordaining homosexual ministers has led to division within the Lutheran World Federation and strained relations with ecumenical partners.

Americus, GA United States About Blog The Fuller Center for Housing, founded by Millard and Linda Fuller, is a non-profit ecumenical Christian organization devoted to an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter for all people in need worldwide.

Especially in ecumenical church circles, this has generated a high «sensitivity to pluralism» (23).

Lukas Vischer is former director of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and professor of ecumenical theology at the University of Berne.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

The event accorded with the mission of First Things, not just in topic, but in ecumenical spirit.

Most Evangelicals also held back from ecumenical efforts represented by the World Council of Churches.

One of the problems is that, in spite of efforts by such ecumenical leaders as M. M. Thomas (the Reinhold Niebuhr of Asian Christianity), who has been closely associated with the activist groups, most have not been able to, or have not been interested in, clarifying the theological bases of their action.

The study on ecumenical hermeneutics, undertaken by FO since 1993, seeks to consider these questions.

The appearance of the Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry agreement of the World Council of Churches» Faith and Order Commission, the theological consensus statement of the Consultation on Church Union (COCU), and the proliferation of local ecumenical efforts in countless places offer new possibilities for effective unity.

At least in principle, communio ecclesiology offers a common basis for ecumenical thinking about the church, but a number of problems remain.

«As the Catholic faith reflects upon itself and the tradition of the great ecumenical Councils is more profoundly scrutinised, better theologians refuse the simplistic answers of liberal theology and return to ecclesial tradition.

He is arguing the multimillion - dollar tax case that hangs over the LWF hospital there, a case that threatens Roman Catholic, Mennonite, Swedish and ecumenical service agencies as well.

Nonetheless, the initial impact of Bonhoeffer's death was felt less in his native Germany than in the international ecumenical community.

Euromaidan Press sat down with Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, Acting Director of Huffington Ecumenical Institute, Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, former Chairman of the Department for External Church...

Torrance was a substantial and creative theologian in his own right, who made his own unique and wide - ranging contributions to articulate a Trinitarian — incarnational theology in the modern ecumenical world.

It was the missionary movement and the churches in the mission field that gave impetus for the emergence of the modern ecumenical movement at the beginning of this century.

There is far more agreement than difference within ecumenical Christianity today, and it is these agreements that will form the central core of what is found in these pages.

The Assembly has fourteen committees to talk about everything from ecumenical relations to monasticism to youth ministry.

But the fact remains that generations of youth were energized by what they experienced as a new vision of what it means to be a Christian, that the mainline Protestant churches formed ecumenical organizations to work together to implement the new vision, and that, finally, in the depression, many of their practical proposals for social reform were implemented.

The great denominational schools of America are among the first to admit this; but few of them are in a position to press their perception of the diversity of the Christian community as systematically, as hourly, as are the great ecumenical seminaries.

If a closer look demythologizes Tübingen's mystique as a world ecumenical center, at the same time one can be grateful that at least two leading contemporary figures and a number of their younger colleagues continue to show a vision for the whole church, and provide creative thought that is worthy of the Tübingen legacy of several centuries.

Russell I. Chandran, EATWOT (Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians), Bangalore, 1991.

A less self - serving and probably more ecumenical approach would be for liberals to wait for evangelicals themselves to answer this question.

The emphasis in seminary teaching seems to focus on retrieval of traditions interpreted in a contemporary light, and leaving room for hope of a more ecumenical understanding of Christian faith.

This essay provides a perspective for a new ecumenical movement as a movement of ONE in the OIKOS TOU THEOU.

«A democratic global consciousness rooted in authentic local communities» is, of course, another way to express the ancient ecumenical vision itself!