Sentences with phrase «new ecumenical»

In proposing elements of a new ecumenical paradigm, he proposes the «household» (oikos) and the social understanding of the Trinity.»

Or does the trouble lie in our unholy divisions, of which we have been hearing much in these days of new ecumenical emphasis?

But the majority Christianity of the South — and it is already the majority of Christians — poses new ecumenical questions.

The Bishop of Southwark, Rt Rev Christopher Chessun, has appointed six new Ecumenical Canons to Southwark Cathedral.

We have explored a perspective for a new ecumenical movement as a movement of ONE in the OIKOS TOU THEOU.

This essay provides a perspective for a new ecumenical movement as a movement of ONE in the OIKOS TOU THEOU.

It should not be denied that the new ecumenical formula is action - oriented and tends towards activism as the main mode of doing mission.

Ulf Ekman's conversion to the Catholic Church sparked a healthy discussion over how to hold the reforming impulse of Protestantism alongside the new ecumenical impulse.The starting place for such a discussion is the recognition that the reforming impulse and the ecumenical impulse converge on....

The Bishop of Southwark, Rt Rev Christopher Chessun, has appointed six new Ecumenical Canons to Southwark... More

(6) Such a new ecumenical initiative would, over time, create the conditions for the possibility of a Russian Orthodoxy that is not in thrall to Russian state power, and that could be a partner in the re-evangelization of Europe because its leadership had rediscovered the power of the Gospel.

Not exact matches

Will we see a condemnation of separatist groups and a new commitment to ecumenical openness?

Many participants had hoped this Assembly would effect the unveiling of a «new, comprehensive, ecumenical theology» built upon creation consciousness and a broadly defined work of the Spirit, but the effort ran headlong into established political and theological commitments.

This commitment to coalition - building fostered in LaHaye's case a new «ecumenical» spirit.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

«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.

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.

Perhaps this new common task will be the best way of progressing in the ecumenical dialogue.

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.

He met with interfaith groups, and gave new life to the Church's ecumenical mission, but also paid tribute to the unique virtues of Catholicism, honoring two of its greatest sons, Thomas More and John Henry Newman.

But his views in 1933 were shared by many ecumenical leaders, notably Visser t» Hooft and Pierre Maury in Geneva and Henry Smith Leiper at the Federal Council of Churches in New York.

In 1942, convinced that the reports of the «final solution» were accurate, ecumenical organizations (including the Federal Council of Churches in New York) strongly condemned their governments for failing to take in more refugees.

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».

The UCC's struggle with yet another new Statement of Faith is of wider interest because the whole ecumenical movement tends in that direction.

Elsewhere, so do Catholic Worker houses, ecumenical L'Arche communities, and the «new monastic» communities of young urban evangelicals.

Judging from the agenda then apparent in the minds of young evangelicals and charismatics, I viewed the completed shape of the awakening as including new levels of theological and spiritual depth, a reinvigoration of the ecumenical impulse, and a return to the balance of nurture, evangelism and social transformation present in the original evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries.

[25] In the New Delhi Assembly of the WCC (1961) where the IMC merged with the WCC, the Council chose «Witness», «Service» and «Unity» as the key concepts and primary concern of the ecumenical movement.

For Billy Graham in 1957 to invite participation at his New York City evangelistic campaign from representatives of all willing churches — thereby, opening up a wide array of ecumenical possibilities for former fundamentalists, new - style evangelicals and many mainline Protestants — was indisputably an important actiNew York City evangelistic campaign from representatives of all willing churches — thereby, opening up a wide array of ecumenical possibilities for former fundamentalists, new - style evangelicals and many mainline Protestants — was indisputably an important actinew - style evangelicals and many mainline Protestants — was indisputably an important action.

It is proposed that the framework of civil society, whatever its precise definition may be, is to be considered a way to open a new horizon for ecumenical social thought and involvement from our Christian faith perspective.

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.

If so, we may soon experience new and more profound ecumenical alignments than those of the past.

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.

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.

Continue reading «The Reception Process: The Challenge at the Threshold of a New Phase of the Ecumenical Movement»

The Spirit of the Soil: Agricultural and Ecumenical Ethics (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 3, 5.

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.

But the ecumenical inter-religious dialogues in recent years have been exploring new paths to break the deadlock.

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.

«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.

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., best known among evangelicals for his ecumenical work with Evangelicals and Catholics Together, died at 6:30 this morning at a Jesuit infirmary in Bronx, New York, first reported by In All Things, the blog of national Catholic weekly America.

The new forms of Christian life and practice that were emerging would provide the ecumenical movement with a concrete credibility well before ecclesiastical formulations would attempt to rise to the occasion.

In defining what we understand the word «evangelical» to signify, I adopt the perspective of Luther and Calvin as they interpret the New Testament through the ecumenical creeds and the influence of Augustine.

McKnight points out that evangelicals are good at: 1) being ecumenical, 2) stressing the importance of the new birth, 3) emphasizing theology, and 3) urging personal transformation.

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.

In the churches and congregations we find fresh energy and intelligence being devoted to the production of new hymns, music, artistic and liturgical materials, to the creation of fresh categories for doing theology, to the retrieval of threatened cultural resources, to the application of faith to public issues, and to the promotion of ecumenical sharing and partnership.

A Lutheran, he was one of the great New Testament scholars and ecumenical spirits of the century.

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

One of the questions we may rightly ask at the beginning of a new century is what is ahead for ecumenism and the ecumenical movement.

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.

Here was a new approach to the ecumenical faith.