Sentences with phrase «ecumenical movements»

Yet it succeeds remarkably in doing this not only on a world scale, as is evident in the very existence of the missionary and ecumenical movements, but in every local congregation where people of many private interests sit together to worship God.

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.

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.

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

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

The signers raised concerns about the Assembly call for a coherent ecumenical theology, affirming the need for theological work but insisting that the «ecumenical movement needs a theology rooted in the Christian revelation as well as relevant to contemporary problems.»

That fact «raised questions about the way in which sections of the ecumenical movement supported the ruling ideologies in Eastern Europe.»

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 great setback has been with the oldline Protestant communities, with which the ecumenical movement of the twentieth century began.

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

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.

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

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

There were conflicts and Controversies between different groups within the ecumenical movement as well as outside of it.

Some few voices have been raised in American Catholic circles pointing sympathetically to the ecumenical movement, and they have been heard.

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.

Not only was the free use of network facilities and air - time too good to pass over, but the communication agencies had been conditioned to the acceptance of broad religious truths over idiosyncratic truths by the ecumenical movement.

In such a context the past cliques of the ecumenical movement are simply irrelevant.

The unfinished Reformation, as Morrison saw it, was the ecumenical movement's undertaking to finish the Reformation's task of uniting the church.

He was therefore present when the modern ecumenical movement was born.

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

An ecumenical movement has arisen among LDS historians, however.

The bad reasoning behind this thesis, which combines guilt by association with the logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc (the ecumenical movement became «liberal» because it was concerned for church union and social demonstration of the gospel), is part of the theological DDT in evangelical soil which inhibits the growth and maturing of the present awakening.

The Catholic News Agency quotes him as follows: ««The main problem that we have today in the ecumenical dialogue with all the Protestant» communities... is the lack of «a common vision of the goal of the ecumenical movement.

[25] In the New Delhi Assembly of the WCC (1961) where the IMC merged with the WCC, the Council chose «Witness», «Service» and «Unity» as the key concepts and primary concern of the ecumenical movement.

The release of pent - up spiritual forces is one of the graces of the ecumenical movement.

In the early years of the NAE, the Assemblies of God made a clear choice to follow the lead of figures like Thomas Zimmerman into the NAE by disfellowshiping David DuPlessis, who reached toward the ecumenical movement.

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.

And whoever speaks of Taizé is bound to speak of Roger Schutz (1915 - 2005), whose intuitions and initiatives turned the community into a focus and center of the ecumenical movement.

He largely left the theological debates and disputes to Max Thurian, the subprior of the community, while he sought through personal contacts to win the council fathers to the cause of the ecumenical movement.

For him the ecumenical movement was nothing other than letting God act here and now.

Personal religious experience, the home, other religions, church membership, missions, the Scriptures, doctrine, Christian action, the ecumenical movement, church history, Methodist heritage, evangelism, and Christian education — each of these is considered and thoughtfully interpreted from the Christian viewpoint, book by book.

The ecumenical movement is in a period of kairos.

The ecumenical movement articulated as social middle axiom the idea of free society, the idea of responsible society, and the idea of just, participatory, and sustainable society, and then the idea of justice, peace and integrity of creation throughout its recent history.

This demands fresh initiatives for social thinking in the ecumenical movement.

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

If, on the one hand, the goal of full communion between all mainstream Christian denominations seems as far away as ever, I would want to say, on the other, that there is a sense in which fundamental aims of the mid-20th-century ecumenical movement have already been achieved.

Is the ecumenical movement something you are invested in?

By extension, if we were to take changes in church population as indicating in any significant degree how people react to liberal tendencies in the oldline churches and the ecumenical movement, we might find ourselves trapped into concluding (mirabile dictu!)

The Christ as the Lamb of peace as well as the vision of Shalom in Isaiah 11 and Ezekiel 37 and Revelations 21 and 22 gives a powerful dynamics of peace in the ecumenical movement.

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

In 1947 J. H. Oldham, a leader of the ecumenical movement in the Christian Church, made a similar but even more forceful appraisal of Buber's significance for Christianity:

Unfortunately, as women, we have found it difficult to persuade the churches and the ecumenical movement that the issue of violence against women is as much an issue of ecclesiology as is complicity in political conflicts, because women have been silent for too long and the churches too have been complicit by their often silence, but also by their sometimes legitimization of the violence theologically.

Lindbeck's Nature of Doctrine grew out of his personal involvement in the ecumenical movement.