Unity to the Greater Glory of God. Promising Paradigms in Current Ecumenism

• Authors: Christoph Raedel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Rather than lamenting a crisis of the Ecumenical movement the author suggests that the reader look at promising paradigms that become apparent within the present changes and challenges of World Christianity. He identifies six promising trends, as Christians of different traditions recognize partners in common witness beyond their own church traditions (1), evangelical and Pentecostal churches rise in significance (2), ecumenism becomes increasingly shaped by biographical experience and personal encounter (3), a spiritual ecumenism for the witness in the world emerges (4), the reality of martyrdom deepens the sense of Christian unity (5) and the search for the truth of the Gospel is not given up (6). In their overlapping and sometimes contradictory evidence these paradigms prove Ecumenism to be alive and, therefore, changing its face.

Keywords

EN

ecumenism; future; evangelicalism; Pentecostalism; witness; martyrdom; truth

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 169-186

Dates

published

2016-08-01

online

2016-09-18

Contributors

author

Christoph Raedel

• Prof. Dr. Christoph Raedel, Professor of Systematic Theology and History of Doctrine at the Freie Theologische Hochschule Gießen.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ress-2016-0015