Experience Europe! The Reception of the Leuenberger Agreement as Model and Constant Challenge

• Authors: Jan Gross
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Leuenberg Agreement (LA) is one of the most productive ecumenical documents ever seen. It initiated a church fellowship, the “Community of Protestant Churches in Europe” (CPCE). LA evoked an ongoing process of its’ own reception that can be seen in a variety of different expressions such as church communion, doctrinal conversations and public statements. However, this reception is still all too frequent limited to the European level of interaction between the member churches of CPCE. It remains one of the main challenges for the Community, a condition for “Verbindlichkeit” and the legitimated representation of its members to strengthen the awareness for the relevance of LA and CPCE in the single parishes.

Keywords

EN

Leuenberg Agreement; realization; Community of Protestant Churches in Europe; reception; European level; parish level; Verbindlichkeit

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 238-252

Dates

published

2016-08-01

online

2016-09-18

Contributors

author

Jan Gross

• Jan Gross. The author recently finished his doctoral thesis in protestant theology at Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ress-2016-0019