Sentences with phrase «ecumenical world»

From the perennial bestseller Autobiography of a Yogi to the more recent God Talks With Arjuna, the writings of this ecumenical World Teacher and devotee of Divine Mother have illumined my path and brought me the most profound and lasting sense of personal transformation.

Torrance was a substantial and creative theologian in his own right, who made his own unique and wide - ranging contributions to articulate a Trinitarian — incarnational theology in the modern ecumenical world.

Further, most lay people in Pentecostal churches are committed to evangelistic and missionary activities, and many are not even aware of the ecumenical movement, much less of developments in the ecumenical world.

The sense of loss within the ecumenical world at the news of his death went beyond personal grief.

And Bonhoeffer saw at once the importance of ensuring that the ecumenical world knew about events in Germany.

As the German church struggle intensified, the ecumenical world had to decide which faction genuinely represented German Protestantism and whose version of events in Nazi Germany was correct.

This circular process is crucial to understanding the significance of the ecumenical world's efforts on behalf of the German resistance and Bonhoeffer's own role in it.

In 1934, at the age of 28, Bonhoeffer became a member of the governing council of the ecumenical World Alliance for the Promotion of International Friendship Through the Churches.

Not exact matches

For instance, the ecumenical openness of an otherwise profoundly traditional church is of crucial importance, especially in light of conservative and traditionalist circles in the Greek and Slavic worlds.

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

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.

(4) Serious ecumenical theological dialogue is impossible with men who are acting in the world as agents of Russian state power.

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 realWorld 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 realworld Christianity is purest, where the devotion to social - change goals is most fully realized.

While the choice of Lund was related to its being the place where the Lutheran World Federation began in 1947, the celebration set in relief just how deep the ecumenical challenges are.

There developed a Lutheran World Federation, a Baptist World Alliance, the Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion, an International Congregational Council, an Ecumenical Methodist Conference, and a Presbyterian World Alliance.

* Chad Holtz with «You're a Poopy - Head (But so am I)» I'm convinced that any Rally to Restore Unity or any World Council of Churches or any ecumenical move will ultimately fail at making us one when they depend on the «positive» contributions each party brings to the table.

«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.

Oxford did not represent the whole world, however, because of parallel ecumenical conferences held in the late 1930s.

Russell I. Chandran, EATWOT (Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians), Bangalore, 1991.

Certainly the ecumenical council to he summoned by Pope John XXIII should produce some good fruits, at least in the world - wide preparations for the council sessions.

Avery Dulles departed this world for a better place several years ago, but his work as one of our leading ecumenical theologians continues to bear good fruit.

Like many ecumenical spirits, Bonhoeffer bridged different worlds.

The so - called aggiornamento (bringing up to date) of the Roman Catholic Church was expressed in ecumenical openness, biblical and liturgical renewal and greater consideration of the huge social problems facing the world.

At the same time, it must be said that this ecumenical (to all the inhabited world) sense of the missionary aim was given new impetus by what John R. Mott (Edinburgh, 1910) defined as «the decisive hour of Christian Mission» which called for» the evangelisation of the world in this generation».

A theocentric Christology is far more ecumenical in the religiously plural world than is a Christocentric theology with its exclusivist absorption of all of God into the Jesus of Christianity.

Under the auspices of NCBC, the World Council of Churches, the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT), and the Korean Christian Church in Japan, I have visited many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

An ecumenical church meeting such as the World Council has to come to its conclusions through hearing and integrating many diverse voices.

See also «the Kingdom of God in a religiously plural world» in Ecumenical Review, WCC.

[59] S. J. Samartha, Between Two Cultures: Ecumenical Ministry in a Pluralist World (Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 1997), see especially 28 - 130.

ONE and its being and nature, and how to be ONE has been the ecumenical agenda in the world, that is divided, full of contradictions and conflicts, destroying life and people.

The appearance of the Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry agreement of the World Council of Churches» Faith and Order Commission, the theological consensus statement of the Consultation on Church Union (COCU), and the proliferation of local ecumenical efforts in countless places offer new possibilities for effective unity.

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

An Opening Word The ecumenical movement, which is the movement of the people of God in the inhabited earth, is in a rapid transition to a radically new world.

In the new - world Cambridge, Coakley sang in the ecumenical Harvard University choir and participated in the Eucharist at the regular weekday service celebrated by the Cowley Fathers, an Anglican order with roots in the Oxford movement of the 1830s.

Bonhoeffer's theology made several contributions, particularly in the area of ecclesiology and the ecumenical movement, ethics and the role of the Christian in the modern world, spiritual life especially in theological education, and Christology as the center of doctrine.

Most Evangelicals also held back from ecumenical efforts represented by the World Council of Churches.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

More than one historian has commented on how in this respect the Christian movement was responsible for producing for the first time a truly global, ecumenical version of world history, with the meaning and significance of history to be found where the spirit moves and blows, typically among those considered outcasts, the lowly, the oppressed or socially insignificant.

Not since the year 787 has the Christian world gathered in an assembly to which the whole church, or something close to that, eventually granted the status of «ecumenical council.»

But the process of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue that Pope Benedict XVI has repeatedly endorsed may cause participants to question whether any canonical story of violence — such as the conquest narratives in Joshua and Judges, or functionally equivalent texts in the history of Islam — may legitimately be claimed to offer a religious warrant for continued violence in today's world.

The ecumenical focus has shifted from church unity, from reconciling the historic communities, to the service of the world, and therefore away from the kind of ecumenism that has been my chief concern.

The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church is available as part of Ecumenical Proposals: Lutheran - Episcopal, Lutheran - Reformed, and Lutheran - Roman Catholic, from Augsburg Fortress (tel. [phone], order code # 69 - 3092; $ 1 plus postage and handling.)

In the 60s the membership of the Orthodox Churches in the World Council of Churches increased to include all of them and, following the second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church became an active participant in the ecumenical movement.

After ten years of teaching medieval thought at Yale (mostly in the philosophy department), I was selected by the Lutheran World Federation to be a delegated observer to the Second Vatican Council (1962 - 65), and since then have done most of my research and writing in the context of participation in national and international ecumenical dialogue, mostly with Roman Catholics.

K.C.Abraham's leadership in ecumenical circles is well - known, especially where EATWOT and World Council of Churches circles overlap Asian ones.

In ecumenical assemblies, especially the World Council of Churches, it has not been unusual for representatives of the Eastern Orthodox Church to withhold assent on this basis to statements which refer to the church as sinning.

Though no single event produced it, it came into focus in the ecumenical discussion of «Jesus Christ, the hope of the world,» the main theme of the Evanston Assembly of the World Council of Churches in world,» the main theme of the Evanston Assembly of the World Council of Churches in World Council of Churches in 1954.

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

The great ecumenical thrust of the New Testament in the Gospel of John equates unity and credibility -LRB-»... that all may be one,... so the world will believe,» John 17:21).

One reason the move toward ecumenical union seems easier today is that national differences are not as important in the modern, interdependent world as they once seemed to be.