Sentences with phrase «ecumenical relations»

Though such successive innovations in theological study as the social gospel, social ethics, religious education, psychological counseling and ecumenical relations may receive much publicity the schools seem to go on their accustomed way, teaching what they have always taught: Biblical and systematic theology, church history and preaching.

Ruether's many interests — liberation in general, ecumenical relations, liturgy, racism, language, ethics, history, Christology, sexism — have been evident in such earlier works as New Woman / New Earth (1975), but in Gaia and God the connections are worked out systematically.

I began by saying that the book is a classic product of a twentieth - century movement; but towards the end of that century there was a tectonic shift in Protestant mentalities which has already begun to complicate ecumenical relations between Protestants and both their Catholic and Orthodox interlocutors.

The Rev. Dr. Rudolf von Sinner is an ordained minister of the Evangelical - Reformed Church of the Canton of Basle - City (Switzerland) and is Ecumenical Relations Officer for the Ecumenical Coordination of Service, in Salvador / Bahia.

There was certainly a general feeling in 1970, when the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales were canonised (they were put to death between 1535 and 1679) that in order not to jeopardise ecumenical relations we should almost apologise for the celebration.

Both developments brought more diversity in ecumenical relations.

Though ecumenical relations have suffered a severe blow under his leadership, he is superbly successful as a diocesan bishop.

The Orthodox church has previously reached out to Protestants, and some evangelicals hoped Kirill's rise to the patriarchy of the ascendant Russian church in 2009 might improve ecumenical relations.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

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

The same ideals important to Catholics in ecumenical relations are true then also for the ILC — namely, the belief that true unity must be unity in the truth.

Finally, I would notice some trends in inter-church and ecumenical relations.

«At the bottom of this is the humility of the Crucified, which will always be contrasted by the great powers of the world, but which generates a real hope that is manifested in the creative vitality of the Church: in her communities and her movements, in the new responsibility of the laity, in ecumenical relations, in liturgical and spiritual experiences.

Are we to dismiss it as untrue simply because it is critical of Zionism and therefore would seem counterproductive to the cause of ecumenical relations between Christians and Zionists?

Not exact matches

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.

He has been a teaching fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, an international consultant to the Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations, National Board of Missions, of the United Presbyterian Church (USA), and is founder and Director of the Christian Center for Asian Studies, and Director of the Doctor of Ministries Studies, a joint program with San Francisco Theological Seminary.

His true magnum opus, he envisaged, would be titled The New Testament People: An Ecumenical History of Christianity with Attention to Its Relations at All Important Nodal Points with Judaism and Islam.

Christian - Jewish relations should be an ecumenical priority of the first order.

On the ecumenical front, particularly in relation to Catholics and Orthodox, there will likely be a good bit of angst over the Church of England's decision.

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.

Growth groups are being used increasingly with college students in ecumenical student religious centers, in psychology and human relations courses, in training of dorm counselors, and in college guidance programs.

Though the declaration is not an ecumenical document, it will undoubtedly shape Roman Catholic relations with world religions and with Protestant churches.

We all know that during the last few years, especially between Uppsala and Bangkok, ecumenical - evangelical relations hardened into something like a confrontation.

Henceforth, the ecumenical perspective is not merely confined to inter-church relations and attitudes, the aim of which is to overcome divisions among Christians.

The Islamic Council of Norway and the (Lutheran) Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Relations jointly declared that everyone is free to adopt the religious faith of their choice, at a gathering on 22 August 2007.

If the influence of church groups is to make a contribution in relation to the federal mental health and alcoholism programs (in the U.S.), it will have to be expressed through ecumenical channels.

The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, in his address to the 1998 Harare Assembly uses the word «conversion» in relation to the churches themselves and asks: «The ecumenical jubilee is... a call to conversion, to repentance and critical self - assessment, acknowledging the accumulated guilt and coresponsibility in dividing the body of Christ.

A second fundamental requirement of the fruitful relation of Christian faith and social issues is emphasized by the Indian ecumenical leader M. M. Thomas (1984).

Abrecht (1984) is one of many ecumenical leaders who judge that no ecumenically organized reflection on theology and social ethics has matched the quality and thoroughness of the 1937 meeting of the WCC on «Church Community and State in Relation to the Economic Order» and its report of that title.

There would be questions of systematic theology, for example those concerning the nature of justification, the validity, and knowledge, of the natural law within Christian morality, the possibility and recognition of an individual call coming directly from God to the conscience in a concrete situation, and the question of the relation of such: a call to universal moral principles, as well as many other questions with which the ecumenical dialogue will have to concern itself.

The discussions also focused on recent events affecting relations between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, reiterating the shared will to continue and to consolidate the ecumenical relationship between Catholics and Anglicans, and recalling how, over coming days, the commission entrusted with preparing the third phase of international theological dialogue between the parties (ARCIC) is due to meet.

Some argue that we have never really been able to identify the proper role of the ecumenical movement and of its various participants in relation to the churches.