Sentences with phrase «ecumenical efforts»

In view of the ecumenical efforts of the present, the author depicts, in the second essay, by means of the example of «situation ethics», the course which he envisages for a present - day ecumenical dialogue.

Neuhaus's unstinting ecumenical efforts.

Then there is the current Vatican Ostpolitik: Russian Orthodox Church leaders have been prominent actors in Putin's war of propaganda and disinformation, yet the ecumenical efforts of the Holy See seem premised on the wish that these churchmen are not what they manifestly are — agents of Russian state power.

Obviously, ecumenical efforts at the national and world levels are required in order to involve most effectively the whole body of Christians around the earth in providing the dreamers and doers that are so vitally important to the achievement of a desirable human future.

Included, however, are prominent players in the ecumenical efforts of recent decades such as Geoffrey Wainwright, William Rusch, Michael Root, and, primus inter pares, George Lindbeck of Yale.

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

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.

«In the face of those who no longer see the full, visible unity of the Church as an achievable goal,» he said to a delegation of Finnish Lutherans visiting Rome this past Friday, «we are invited not to give up our ecumenical efforts, faithful to that which the Lord Jesus asked of the Father, «that they may be one.

Ecumenical efforts like the Faith and Values Cable Channel deserve vigorous support.

I once attended an amazing ecumenical effort between Jews and Muslims.

At that time the yearly ecumenical effort of Notre Dame's theology department was to have a colloquium with the theology department at Valparaiso University.

I suggested that this would be an ecumenical effort since I thought by presenting the work of John Howard Yoder to Catholics and Lutherans I would help them see they shared much in common — namely, that Catholics and Lutherans had always assumed it was a good thing to kill the Anabaptists.

Finally, such a strengthened ecumenical effort would be much more effective and relevant in dealing with the crucial issues of the day — poverty, race, urban decay, etc..

The denominational membership base would make the ecumenical effort more «official,» more «legal,» more «authoritative.»

Some Anglo - Catholics have left the Anglican communion to join new groups professing to be orthodox Anglicanism, many others are entering into full communion with Rome, and Rome has declared that disappointments and setbacks require a redoubling of ecumenical effort.

Not exact matches

Many participants had hoped this Assembly would effect the unveiling of a «new, comprehensive, ecumenical theology» built upon creation consciousness and a broadly defined work of the Spirit, but the effort ran headlong into established political and theological commitments.

The historian Jules Isaac... obtained an interview with Pius XII in June 1949 and felt he was heard «with good will and understanding sympathy»... During the 1950's, the signs of understanding increased in the Vatican media, particularly at Christmas or Unity Week; the philo - Semitic orientation of certain religious orders; the effort to understand Judaism in theology schools, and meetings in ecumenical settings, no longer met with distrust by Roman Congregations.

This circular process is crucial to understanding the significance of the ecumenical world's efforts on behalf of the German resistance and Bonhoeffer's own role in it.

There is a danger that real doctrinal differences may be underplayed or ignored in such an ecumenical framework, all in the effort to achieve «mutual recognition,» as the cardinal says, of each other as equal manifestations of the Church.

Generally they feel that the church supports these efforts and recognizes that many of them need to be pursued on an ecumenical or purely secular basis.

Finally, ecumenical theology displays little awareness of the ideological doubleagent within us — O'Donovan's «disproportion» or Lifton's «totalism» that bewitches our brave efforts to be responsible.

In the churches we may add a greater ecumenical understanding and fellowship, a greater outreach in service to society, and an effort, however varied in its success, at inner renewal.

While no Christian disagrees with these efforts, some Catholic, Orthodox, liberationist and ecumenical Christians tend to reject these emphases because they fail to evoke direct social action in the more usual sense.

That effort represented a joyful decision on my part to turn again toward the classical Christian pastoral tradition, especially as expressed by the ecumenical consensus of Christianity's first millennium of experience in caring for souls.

Of the two ecumenical movements in our time the organizational effort to develop world - wide institutions takes precedence in many minds over that spiritual, psychological, intellectual and moral common life, transcending all national boundaries, which seeks institutions through which to express itself.

Here, in fact, we may be in the presence of one of the most necessary of all Devils: the Ecumenical Unifier, champion of all efforts to remove invidious distinctions between nature and nurture, body and spirit, interdiction and impulse, time and eternity, individual and community, male and female, Hell and Heaven — and ultimately, of course, between man and God.

The critical thing now is a sense of urgency in undertaking such an effort, knowing that no church can be fully true to the Lord or to its own nature as a sign of his kingdom unless it engages the ecumenical challenge.

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.

I am involved in an effort, Logos Ministries, which provides a weekly ecumenical Bible study.

Ecumenical discourse, today as well as in earlier efforts, has commonly consisted in attempting to somehow negotiate these claims.

Given the way the culture wars divide religious folk among themselves on the question of how to respond to modernity, it was only a matter of time before the conservative Christian effort was matched by one from an ecumenical group of Christians and Jews.

Thus before continuing with links, and, again, with apologies for the crass, deadline - driven comparison, it is appropriate from both an ecumenical and national perspective to remember, this Labor Day, the labor of those who have preceded us in this effort as well: Namely George's Employment Blawg, which in Blawg Review # 124, which itself recalled for us the merits of the works, and work, of those who came before us in all these mundane ways.