Sentences with phrase «ecumenical vision»

I belong to a mainline denomination, one of whose leaders loves to travel to Sweden because he believes that there he gains an ecumenical vision of what he has called «mature» Christianity.

The goal of a council that is representative of the whole Christian church remains a focal point of ecumenical vision, although no one knows whether such an event is possible within the lifetimes of those now seeking Christian unity.

It was a cosmic vision, an Ecumenical vision.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

The World Council, therefore, is probably the place where the liberal / ecumenical vision of world Christianity is purest, where the devotion to social - change goals is most fully realized.

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When asked this question, John Zizioulas and other authoritative representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate responded that the Council as a process, not as an event with an identifiable outcome, is itself the vision.

It would be natural, then, to make Orthodox theological anthropology the overarching theme of the Council and to address all other questions — such as jurisdictional disputes, ecumenical dialogue, and human rights — as embraced in the common Orthodox vision for the renewal of humanity.

We believe the vision of the work of God we offer can contribute greatly to authentic ecumenical dialogue and the eventual reconciliation of all in Jesus Christ, true God and true man, the Way, the Truth and the Life for everyone.

We are in for a longer and more arduous struggle than we have yet recognized, for our vision is tarnished and the message of the ecumenical church unsure without whose mainstays people make decisions according to their own interests — and the interests of the powerful generally prevail.

Yet if there is a new vision of «pan-Orthodox and ecumenical unity» in the Eastern church, no one is more responsible for it than this man, whose desire for an open church is matched only by his love for American baseball.

I think we are in for a longer and more arduous struggle than we have yet recognized, for our vision is tarnished and the message of the ecumenical church unsure.

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.

By this standard, Bonhoeffer was indeed an ecumenical saint, one who continues to offer us a vision of other possibilities.

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.

The question being asked by women is whether the Decade will invite «the churches and the ecumenical movement to discover and nurture an enriched understanding of the very nature and mission of the church... growing from and supporting a new community, embodying the visions of all persons...,» as the Readers Group describe it in their interim report.

But the fact remains that generations of youth were energized by what they experienced as a new vision of what it means to be a Christian, that the mainline Protestant churches formed ecumenical organizations to work together to implement the new vision, and that, finally, in the depression, many of their practical proposals for social reform were implemented.

When Billy Graham invites to his stage Catholic and United Methodist bishops, they accept, in one of a thousand taken - for - granted expressions of ecumenical gains that are congruent with Madison's vision of civil security and multiplicity.

Treating the fundamentalists with charity and grace, while leading them to a larger, deeper and broader vision of that to which they are attached, attempting always to draw them into a wider ecumenical conversation.

But none of this should divert us from the fundamental question: To what vision of ecumenical opportunity does this historical moment call us?

Diverse theological approaches and styles give new meaning to the universality of ecumenical goals and vision.

A revised vision today points the way: to work and pray for the «reconciliation of particularities» which protect our diversity and for a reimagining of «visible unity», not theological uniformity, not structural mergers, but diversity for the enrichment of one another, not singing in unison but in harmony, analogous to different instruments playing the ecumenical symphony.

This is the vision to which the ecumenical movement ultimately points the church.

In 1975 there appeared in Germany a book entitled: The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto, on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, edited by Walter Kunneth and Peter Beyerhaus.34 The book attacked not only the World Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncretism.

, The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, Liebnzeller Mission Press, 1975.

Both visions protest the neglect of unitive ecumenism, but one does so from within the ecumenical establishment and aims to retrieve emphases that have been lost, while the other originates outside ecumenical and denominational structures and is open to the possibility that new organizational forms may be needed either in whole or in part.

Kinnamon's formulation, represented by his book The Vision of the Ecumenical Movement (Chalice, 2003), comes out of an «unstructured» meeting on the future of ecumenism attended by 30 veterans of the movement a half dozen years ago.

Thus Pannenberg's ecumenical concern is an essential component of his theological vision.

Lurking behind most ecumenical endeavors there seems to lie the vision of restoring the magnificence of European Christendom, though this time on a global scale.

Analyzing the vision in relationship to both India and the world ecumenical movement he wrote: