Sentences with phrase «ecumenical movement»

In the post-Cold War situation and the post-modernization process, the breakdown of modern social philosophies and political ideologies, as well as traditional social thoughts opened the door to great confusion in social thinking among Asian peoples and to a lack of ecumenical theological direction in the Christian communities; but at the same time it has opened a new era of creative and active social thinking in ecumenical movements and social movements around the world.

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

I. have watched my own oldline church tradition decline during the era of the modern ecumenical movement in which I invested heavily.

By sharing her personal experience, Ofelia Ortega describes how Pentecostals have gradually approached the historic Protestant churches through the world ecumenical movement.

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.

In the same way, the future of the black - white ecumenical movement must be based upon the commitment of the white church to Christ and liberation.

Since his student days in Berlin, Bonhoeffer had been deeply involved in the emerging ecumenical movement, especially through the group called the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship Through the Churches.

The UCC's struggle with yet another new Statement of Faith is of wider interest because the whole ecumenical movement tends in that direction.

We have explored a perspective for a new ecumenical movement as a movement of ONE in the OIKOS TOU THEOU.

In times when the very existence of Christianity was unsure, this early ecumenical movement helped to keep the church alive.

In fact, if one wants to trace the historical development and the various struggles the issue of pluralism and dialogue faced in the non-Catholic ecumenical movement, Samartha's recent autobiographical account [59] is one of the best sources.

Asian Ecumenical movements have tried to view Christ as a person among the suffering and struggling peoples of Asia.

Yet, for the past decade; the organized ecumenical movement has been viewed with indifference, if not suspicion, by Christians who have preferred to cultivate their personal spiritual gardens, to pursue various sorts of denominational consolidation and reorganization, or to wrestle with the relation of faith to social issues in abstraction from the struggle for the integrity of the social reality of the church.

The movement has got to insist that these are not an either - or... There is one ecumenical movement committed because of the gospel to both unity and justice [from his review of the Princeton Proposal in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY, September 6, 2003].

Unity which incorporates a broader range of pluralism depends not on individual denominations but on the wider ecumenical movement.

They've been bouncing around in their own private ecumenical movements for years, attending a wedding here and a baptism there.

Is not the whole ecumenical movement stopped here?

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.

With the loosening in recent centuries of the Constantinian symbiosis of church and state, space opened for further fragmentation, especially, among Protestants but also for unitive countercurrents in the 19th century that led to the modern ecumenical movement in the 20th.

When we say No to a black - white ecumenical movement, we are not saying No to those whites who may wish to become committed through the black church to the work of Christ for the oppressed.

It may be instructive for us to ponder how the cause of the mainline ecumenical movement was closely tied to mission, and how its reported decline today appears to coincide with the decline of mainline mission.

Both within Orthodox circles and in the worldwide ecumenical movement, Anastasios has earned a reputation as one of the most capable and spiritual of church leaders.

«The ecumenical movement has broadened my viewpoint and I recognize now that God has his people in all churches,» he said in the early 1950s.

At the beginnings of the ecumenical movement before and after World War I, the following motto was frequently quoted: «Doctrine separates, life unites.»

Nothing in the rejection of modernity tells us how we ought to view the ecumenical movement or the ordination of women.

The ecumenical movement has adopted the position that «whatever is Christian I will try to belong with, in some sense.»

A shared world and worldview bound them together on many ethical and dogmatic questions that now increasingly separate Protestant and Catholic thinking - the ecumenical movement notwithstanding and not much helping.

The Protestant theologians — Asian, African, European and American — came, in one way or another, carrying the heritage of the modern mission and ecumenical movements.

The refusal of the Roman Catholics to have any part in the ecumenical movement is a genuine difficulty, but, in spite of this, the amount of agreement among most Christian groups is now very great indeed.

For a while it seemed that, at least in the ecumenical movement and at leadership levels in a number of churches and denominations, they might carry the day.

Many English - speaking theologians have encountered Orthodoxy through the ecumenical movement.

A course on the ecumenical movement may discuss the positions the WCC has taken on green issues.

While conversions between ecclesial traditions will always occur, the ecumenical movement is best served by those who combine a strong commitment to their own tradition with an openness toward others.

The Oberlin conference on The Nature of the Unity We Seek, which met fifty years ago, in September 1957, marked an important stage in the ecumenical movement.

Of particular interest to professional ecumenists and students of the ecumenical movement.

Most of the American contributions to the ecumenical movement lie here, as do most of the Protestants engaged in dialogue with the Roman Catholics.

Bonhoeffer sought one important thing from the ecumenical movement: a strong denunciation of the apostate church under Hitler's control.

In turn, the ecumenical movement discovered mission as its raison d'etre.