The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation

The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation
Author: Stefan Alkier
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2024-08-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation pursues its ecumenical goals by allowing the Bible itself to serve as the point of commonality. The volume retains the Bible's centrality as a guideline for individual faith and for the institutional design of churches in the context of contemporary social conflicts. The authors--one Protestant, one Catholic, one Orthodox--present ten unifying theses on the understanding and function of a conception of Scripture under the sign of Sola Scriptura. They agree that only Scripture, when correctly understood, bears witness to good news for everyone, and that only a shared, expectant, and critical turn to Scripture makes sustainable ecumenism possible. This is the basis for bringing biblical insights to the conditions that make community life possible amid the global and local, ecclesiastical and social conflicts of the present.

The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation

The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation
Author: Stefan Alkier
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2024
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation achieves its ecumenical goals by returning to the unifying force of the Bible itself. The authors--one Protestant, one Catholic, one Orthodox--agree that consensus about the Bible is tied to the centrality of the Bible for the individual believer and the life of the church.

Roman but Not Catholic

Roman but Not Catholic
Author: Jerry L. Walls
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493411748

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This book offers a clearly written, informative, and fair critique of Roman Catholicism in defense of the catholic faith. Two leading evangelical thinkers in church history and philosophy summarize the major points of contention between Protestants and Catholics, honestly acknowledging real differences while conveying mutual respect and charity. The authors address key historical, theological, and philosophical issues as they consider what remains at stake five hundred years after the Reformation. They also present a hopeful way forward for future ecumenical relations, showing how Protestants and Catholics can participate in a common witness to the world.

Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation

Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation
Author: Pope Paul VI.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 1965
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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This document's purpose is to spell out the Church's understanding of the nature of revelation--the process whereby God communicates with human beings. It touches upon questions about Scripture, tradition, and the teaching authority of the Church. The major concern of the document is to proclaim a Catholic understanding of the Bible as the "word of God." Key elements include: Trinitarian structure, roles of apostles and bishops, and biblical reading in a historical context.

Church in the Round

Church in the Round
Author: Letty M. Russell
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664250706

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Ideas of the Christian church are changing, and Letty Russell envisions its future as partnership and sharing for all members around a common table of hospitality. Russell draws on her pastorate in Harlem, her classes in theology, and many ecumenical conversations to help the newly emerging church face the challenges of liberation for all people.

Reformed Catholicity

Reformed Catholicity
Author: Michael Allen
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015-01-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441220410

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Can Christians and churches be both catholic and Reformed? In this volume, two accomplished young theologians argue that to be Reformed means to go deeper into true catholicity rather than away from it. Their manifesto for a catholic and Reformed approach to dogmatics seeks theological renewal through retrieval of the rich resources of the historic Christian tradition. The book provides a survey of recent approaches toward theological retrieval and offers a renewed exploration of the doctrine of sola scriptura. It includes a substantive afterword by J. Todd Billings.

Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning

Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning
Author: Paul Murray
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2010-05-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0191615293

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This volume proposes a fresh strategy for ecumenical engagement - 'Receptive Ecumenism' - that is fitted to the challenges of the contemporary context and has already been internationally recognised as making a distinctive and important new contribution to ecumenical thought and practice. Beyond this, the volume tests and illustrates this proposal by examining what Roman Catholicism in particular might fruitfully learn from its ecumenical others. Challenging the tendency for ecumenical studies to ask, whether explicitly or implicitly, 'What do our others need to learn from us?', this volume presents a radical challenge to see ecumenism move forward into action by highlighting the opposite question 'What can we learn with integrity from our others?' This approach is not simply ecumenism as shared mission, or ecumenism as problem-solving and incremental agreement but ecumenism as a vital long-term programme of individual, communal and structural conversion driven, like the Gospel that inspires it, by the promise of conversion into greater life and flourishing. The aim is for the Christian traditions to become more, not less, than they currently are by learning from, or receiving of, each other's gifts. The 32 original essays that have been written for this unique volume explore these issues from a wide variety of denominational and disciplinary perspectives, drawing together ecclesiologists, professional ecumenists, sociologists, psychologists, and organizational experts.

The Bible

The Bible
Author: Ellen Flesseman-van Leer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 71
Release: 1980
Genre:
ISBN:

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