Like the pastoral letters on economics produced by America's Roman Catholic bishops nearly two decades ago, such
ecumenical social teaching would not prescribe specific policy choices, but it would insist that concern for the common good and the building up of community are requirements for any economic system.
Not exact matches
Those who use Minus's book to
teach the next generation how Rauschenbusch brought many in a previous generation, most of a denomination and much of
ecumenical Protestantism to embrace «
Social Christianity» may, want to translate his material into that kind of revealing art Which simultaneously embraces evocative parable and systematic clarification.
On the other hand, we can also imagine a Russia in which the Wesleyan
social witness of United Methodists and the Salvation Army links up with an
ecumenical Orthodoxy to
teach Russia what the early church knew about remembering the poor.
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.