Sentences with phrase «modern ecumenical»

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.

Tambaram was the first major modern ecumenical international meeting at which Christians from this larger world made up a majority of the delegates.

It was the energy of movements like these that launched the modern ecumenical movement a century ago.

The modern ecumenical movement, bringing together the movements toward unity from «faith and order» and «life and work,» calls for a profound renewal of the church and its message for the world.

Nearly a hundred years ago, at the end of the 19th century, John R. Mott, one of the «fathers» of the modern ecumenical movement, looked at the world and of the coming 20th century and confidently spoke of the «evangelization of the world in the present generation».

However far the modern ecumenical movement may have strayed from its founding purpose, it was born on the mission field, and evangelicalism was its midwife.

In the modern period, the pioneers of the modern ecumenical movement were part of the modern missionary movement that spoke of going to «all the regions beyond».

This Dutch theologian and Christian statesperson did as much as anyone on the yon side of Pope John XXIII to form the modern ecumenical reality.

This is certainly how Matthew 24:14 has been understood, from the age of the apostles right through the dawn of the modern ecumenical movement: «And this Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.»

Yet the modern ecumenical movement has almost completely failed to attain its one overriding goal: the reunion of divided Christian communities.

Baum turns to examine three metaphysical theological claims that have dominated much of Germany's (and Protestantism's) larger tradition: Lutheran two kingdoms theory, Calvinist sovereignty - of - Christ theory, and modern ecumenical developments.

My ecumenical commitment today is far more to ancient than to modern ecumenical teaching.

The modern ecumenical movement has more than soured or failed; it has brought disaster and spiritual poverty in its wake.

True, the historic creeds — Apostles» and Nicene — are presupposed in all our discussions, but there is profound significance in the fact that when a modern ecumenical conference goes in search of a conception which will set forth the essential content of historic Christianity, it does not expect to find it in a philosophical speculation about God, but in a revelation of his character and his disposition toward man.

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

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 exact matches

Moscow realizes that the gathering of the Council specifically in Istanbul has an important symbolic significance for the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarch, since six out of the seven Ecumenical Councils (with the exception of the Council of Ephesus) have taken place in Constantinople or its environs (Chalcedon is presently Kadiköy, a district of Istanbul, and Nicaea, modern Iznik, is within a short ride from the capital).

FAITH Magazine July - Aug 2007 Ecumenical and Inter-religious developments in the search for a modern apologetic Following Pope Benedict's reflections on Faith and Reason at Regensburg...

The Protestant theologians — Asian, African, European and American — came, in one way or another, carrying the heritage of the modern mission and ecumenical movements.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

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.

FAITH Magazine January - February 2008 Ecumenical and inter-religious developments in the search for a modern apologetic

The ecumenical journey will carry modern Christians to a fearful, anxious future, where all will be forced to lay down narrow claims and to embrace the openness of this new day.

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.

the shift has been away from Freudian, Rogerian and Nietzschean values, especially individualistic selfactualization and narcissistic self - expression, and toward engendering durable habits of moral excellence and covenant community; methodologically away from modern culture - bound individuated experience and toward the shared public texts of Scripture and ecumenical tradition; politically away from trust in regulatory power and rationalistic planning to historical reasoning and a relatively greater critical trust in the responsible free interplay of interests in the marketplace of goods and ideas.

Though nothing new is here, the discussion of questions of context (liberal, modern, neo-orthodox; ecumenical, realist, biblical), texts and contexts (matters of biblical interpretation) and the way in which Christian affirmations are appropriately translated into particular settings is stimulating.

The coming council, he insisted, was to have three purposes: the spiritual and pastoral renewal of the Catholic Church, the updating of the Church's outlook and institutions so as to make her proclamation of the Gospel more effective in the modern world, and ecumenical reconciliation with non-Catholic Christians.

And so, just as the Catholic Church rightly takes the initiative in promoting human unity in social and political trends already at work in the modern world, so she can also take leadership in the ecumenical movement, and interreligious dialogue.

The Vatican II document on the «Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern coModern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern comodern context.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»