Sentences with phrase «on ecumenical»

Saw some other (ahem) «interesting» bumper - stickers, including a variation on the ecumenical «Coexist» bumper - sticker.

The spirit of openness to dialogue in frankness and fairness has been received with warm appreciation, as well as especially the emphasis on prayer with and for each other and the positive focus on ecumenical texts of the scriptures.

However, if only one clergyman is employed he must be able to relate to all the local clergy on an ecumenical interfaith basis.

In what follows I will concentrate first on ecumenical history and then on Van Engen's unelaborated and tentative suggestions to Gloria and her Task Force.

On the Tübingen scene, no one is quite sure how many students Küng will be able to attract to his fall semester lectures on ecumenical theology, since that course will be optional.

The Islamic Council of Norway and the (Lutheran) Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Relations jointly declared that everyone is free to adopt the religious faith of their choice, at a gathering on 22 August 2007.

The need for a study on ecumenical hermeneutics was stated very clearly at the Santiago World Conference on FO in l993.5 Following its recommendations, such a study was carried out through various consultations that have been held since 1994, to its completion in 1998.

The study on ecumenical hermeneutics, undertaken by FO since 1993, seeks to consider these questions.

... Nine of the fifteen carried attacks on the ecumenical movement, and at times, the World Council of Churches by name.

As one of the five groups involved in the study, the response of the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs evinces a certain embarrassment.

Underwood's emphasis on ecumenical ministries is as relevant in this decade, even with the waning of ecumenical euphoria, as it was in 1969 precisely because the church's witness for common justice can not be done effectively on a denominational basis.

Generally they feel that the church supports these efforts and recognizes that many of them need to be pursued on an ecumenical or purely secular basis.

On the ecumenical front, particularly in relation to Catholics and Orthodox, there will likely be a good bit of angst over the Church of England's decision.

No one can match his endurance at editing Wesleyan cryptography or his restlessness on the ecumenical trail.

I'm only really trying to indicate that I do not find generalizations on ecumenical progress illuminating.

In England there is the National Marriage Guidance Council, a secular organization, in which the church and church workers are playing an important role; this means that the work is in fact on an ecumenical basis.

Simon thinks the only reason he and his crew were granted access to the monks, many of whom had never done interviews, was a story they did on the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of the global community of 300 million Greek Orthodox Christians.

Most of the specialized functions in the field of family counseling and family education have been organized on an ecumenical basis, especially in the developing countries.

A course on the ecumenical movement may discuss the positions the WCC has taken on green issues.

He has been a teaching fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, an international consultant to the Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations, National Board of Missions, of the United Presbyterian Church (USA), and is founder and Director of the Christian Center for Asian Studies, and Director of the Doctor of Ministries Studies, a joint program with San Francisco Theological Seminary.

This lack of thoughtful interaction with the opposite tradition's actual beliefs can wreak havoc on the ecumenical work begun by ECT.

Not exact matches

If I'm accepted in my congregation, there should be a tolerance in ecumenical settings for a difference of belief on the issue, as there is for many issues.

In his toast this past Thursday night on the eve of the Holy and Great Council, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the first among equals of the bishops of the Orthodox Church, expressed his sympathy for the Church of Antioch, which is suffering in the face of militant Islam.

As a sign of such openness, the Ecumenical Patriarchate organized a special meeting of a select group of thirty Orthodox scholars at its headquarters in Istanbul, the Phanar district on January 5, 2016.

This would imply that on Orthodox conciliar theory a council could be declared ecumenical only post factum, and can not be seen as such beforehand.

And while unanimity is a long and painful form of consensus to build, if the Ecumenical Patriarch were to take that approach — or at least recognize its validity — he would set his council, and his primacy, on much surer footing.

Despite news reports to the contrary, the Orthodox Church has had numerous such councils since either the eighth or eleventh century — depending on whether the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787) or the Great Schism (1054, roughly) is the supposed occasion of the last meeting.

In light of the historical fact that some councils proved to be ecumenical failures — the Robbers» Council of 449 and the Iconoclastic Council of 754 are prime examples — it would be prudent to suspend judgment on the matter.

(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.

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

No ecumenical courtesy can change the fact that, on this reading of Luther, the two parties to the schism were, in effect, practicing different religions.

Acting as it does as a summary and analysis of five decades of Lutheran - Catholic dialogue, 2015's Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry, and Eucharist will undoubtedly be a helpful touchstone in future ecumenical discussions between the two traditions.

Bishop Angaelos, the General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK wrote on Twitter: «Farewell to a friend and brother, and a fellow traveller along our shared ecumenical journey in Britain.»

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

Under the pretext of gathering intelligence, Bonhoeffer also made trips to Switzerland and Sweden, where he used his ecumenical contacts to negotiate on behalf of a post-Hitler German government.

This year I was invited to deliver these ecumenical lectures on the theme of Christians in public life.

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 questions addressed at Baar had been explicitly framed by a major ecumenical consultation in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 1977, the same consultation that developed the WCC's Guidelines on Dialogue (1979)

On Sunday Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will join one another in their pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

* 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.

This then raises the ecumenical practical question: Why do evangelicals see agreement on soteriology, and not on the doctrine of God, as the necessary precondition for ecumenism?

Evangelicalism was, at its heart, a movement, influenced not only by a strong emphasis on the authority of Scripture but also by a lively, impassioned, and deeply personal spirituality — an eclectic, ecumenical mix of elements from Pietism, Presbyterianism, Puritanism, and Pentecostalism.

Winner of the Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History and of two other prestigious academic awards, Nathan Hatch's book has already become a standard reference on American religious history.

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 Oberlin conference on The Nature of the Unity We Seek, which met fifty years ago, in September 1957, marked an important stage in the ecumenical movement.

Ancient orthodoxy has provided a starting point on which all parties in the ecumenical conversation could agree, and current Orthodoxy (of the Orthodox churches) has presented an incarnation of the ancient church from which all parties could learn.

While this prediction accords with some ongoing dynamics of Christian history, and while it might be vindicated several centuries down the line, the persistent vitality of traditional Protestantism, as well as certain ecumenical moves by both Catholics and Protestants, suggest this was a kind of pro-Catholic wishful thinking on Tocqueville's part, as well as a too determinedly logical kind of thinking.

This statement, originally titled «A Christian Women's Declaration,» was issued on September 16, 1997 by the Ecumenical Coalition of Women and Society, a project of the Washington - based Institute on Religion and Democracy.

In celebration of this year's Pentecost Sunday on 23rd May, Premier Christian Media is inviting churches and Christians nationwide to join together in a nine - day ecumenical act of unity and prayer, known as a Novena.

An important aspect of this study is the place given to the ecumenical - evangelical debate on mission.