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Uzochukwu, Peter. "Local and Global Exigencies within the Ecumenical Movement: Analysis of the Ecumenical Scene in South African Catholicism." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 2008. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,3224.
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Loane, Edward Alexander. "William Temple and the practice of church unity : a theological and historical assessment." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709103.
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Oxley, Simon. "The World Council of Churches and 'ecumenical consciousness' : how the constitutional responsibility of fostering 'ecumenical consciousness' has been reflected in the World Council of Churches' educational and formational activities from 1948-2006." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-world-council-of-churches-and-ecumenical-consciousness-how-the-constitutional-responsibility-of-fostering-ecumenical-consciousness-has-been-reflected-in-the-world-council-of-churches-educational-and-formational-activities-from-19482006(d25ca1f0-3ade-413f-ad15-dfc20b229f63).html.
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The thesis explores the manner and extent of World Council of Churches activities that reflect the obligation in its original constitution to develop ecumenical consciousness among the members of the churches. The study explores the possible original meaning of ecumenical consciousness and the implications of widening understandings of ecumenism and develops a working definition of ecumenical consciousness. That definition is seen as having particular significance not only for the structures and activities of the WCC but for the ecumenical movement as a whole. Social movement analysis is used to seek to understand better the nature of the ecumenical movement and its relationship to the World Council. Whilst not completely identifying the ecumenical movement as a social movement, it is suggested that an understanding of participation, the framing of issues of contention and the purposes of social movement organisations can all contribute fruitfully to understanding the ecumenical movement. This perspective leads to questions about whose ecumenical consciousness needs to be addressed and about cognitive and emotional mobilisation. These questions provide a framework for engaging with the stated understandings of the educational and formational activity of the World Council from its foundation to the Porto Alegre Assembly in 2006. From the Library and Archives of the World Council, the research draws on the official documents of Assemblies and Central Committee meetings and perhaps, more significantly, on reports of less high profile consultations and papers of staff discussions. Because of the way in which the World Council operates, this historical analysis is divided into the periods between Assemblies. The conclusion reached is that periods of creative thinking about people’s involvement and participation which might lead to the formation of ecumenical consciousness have alternated with reversions to more formal processes of teaching about the ecumenical movement. The expectations of the member churches of the World Council have been directed more towards being supported in their separateness than being challenged ecumenically. The demands of particular issues (ecclesiological and justice/peace) have led to a greater concentration on content rather than process. The value of ecumenical experience has been recognised but not always the necessity of learning through reflection on that experience. It is suggested that these and other tensions have resulted in the World Council being unable to benefit from the potential of an ecumenically conscientised constituency. The thesis concludes with a chapter considering the implications of these conclusions for the future work of the World Council, arguing that, both for its own good and that of the ecumenical movement, it needs to work to develop an ecumenical consciousness in the people of its whole constituency as well as in the institutional churches and their leaders.
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Bezuidenhoudt, J. "Liturgy and spirituality in the ecumenical movement : a systematic-theological evaluation." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3978.
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Thesis (DTh (Systematical Theology and Missiology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A growing number of scholars with an interest in liturgy and spirituality have contributed to discussions surrounding the relationship between liturgy and spirituality. This dissertation examines the relationship between liturgy and spirituality in the ecumenical movement, and in particular how four factors, namely the Charismatic Renewal, inculturation, secularization, and reflections on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (BEM), have had an impact on its development. Chapter One introduces this study by focusing on the particular connectedness between liturgy and spirituality. Chapters Two to Five critically examine the four challenges. Chapter Two examines the impact that the Charismatic Renewal had on liturgy and spirituality. It discusses the interest that the ecumenical movement had in the Charismatic Renewal, as the ecumenical movement realized what the Renewal could offer them. Chapter Three concerns itself with the challenges that inculturation poses, especially to the liturgy. One prominent question is: How do Christians proclaim Christ faithfully in different cultures? This chapter deals with the fact that inculturation involves dialogue between liturgy and culture – a dialogue which leads to mutual enrichment. Chapter Four concentrates on the impact of secularization, especially since the 1960’s. It examines how the relevance of worship was called to question by the process of secularization. Chapter Five highlights how BEM inspired endeavours for the renewal of liturgy and of spiritual life. It describes how BEM had an impact on studies of worship and spirituality and the revision of forms of worship in several churches.Chapter Six is a brief theological evaluation of the impact that the said factors were having on liturgy and spirituality within the ecumenical movement. Some implications of the impact are discussed and suggestions are made about how liturgy and spirituality can continually shape one another.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: ‘n Toenemende aantal navorsers op die gebied van liturgie en spiritualiteit het bydraes gelewer betreffende die verhouding tussen liturgie en spiritualiteit. Hierdie verhandeling ondersoek die verhouding tussen liturgie en spiritualiteit in die ekumeniese beweging, en in besonders die impak wat vier faktore, naamlik die Charismatiese Beweging, inkulturasie, sekularisasie, en besinning oor die Doop, die Nagmaal, en die Bediening, op hierdie ontwikkeling gehad het. Hoofstuk Een dien as inleiding tot hierdie studie deur te fokus op die spesifieke verbintenis tussen liturgie en spiritualiteit. In Hoofstukke Twee tot Vyf word die vier uitdagings krities ondersoek. Hoofstuk Twee ondersoek die impak wat die Charismatiese Beweging op die liturgie en spiritualiteit gehad het. Daar is ‘n bespreking van die belangstelling wat die ekumeniese beweging in die Charismatiese Beweging gehad het, toe die ekumeniese beweging besef het wat die Charismatiese Beweging vir hulle kan bied. Hoofstuk Drie ondersoek die uitdagings wat inkulturasie met hom bring, veral met betrekking tot die liturgie. ‘n Belangrike vraag is die kwessie van hoe Christene die Christusboodskap op ‘n geloofwaardige manier in verskillende kulture kan uitdra. Die hoofstuk behandel die feit dat inkulturasie ‘n dialoog tussen liturgie en kultuur behels – ‘n dialoog wat tot wedersydse verryking kan lei. Hoostuk Vier fokus op die impak van sekularisasie, veral sedert die 1960’s. Dit ondersoek hoe die proses van sekularisasie die tersaaklikheid van aanbidding bevraagteken het. Hoofstuk Vyf laat die soeklig val op die pogings van BEM (‘n dokument wat Christene vra om opnuut te besin oor die Doop, die Nagmaal, en die Bediening) ten einde vernuwing te bring wat betref die liturgie en die geestelike lewe. Dit beskryf die impak wat BEM gehad het op studies van aanbidding en spiritualiteit, en die hersiening van vorme van aanbidding in verskeie kerke. Hoofstuk Ses is ‘n kort teologiese evaluering van die impak wat genoemde faktore het op die liturgie en spiritualiteit in die ekumeniese beweging. Implikasies van hierdie impak word bespreek en voorstelle word gemaak oor hoe die liturgie en spiritualiteit mekaar gedurig kan omvorm.
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Wood, Stella Margaret. "Nonconformity, theology and reunion, c. 1870-1910." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670265.
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Holsteen, Nathan D. "Current trends in globalism as related to Biblical prophecy." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Kim, Hyo Sung. "Analysis and criticism of the concept of the unity of the church in the contemporary ecumenical movement focusing on selected ecumenical materials published in the 1980s /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Bouck, James Richard. "The church of Modesto a city's journey toward Christ-centered unity /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Psarev, Andrei V. "The attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad toward non-Orthodox Christians and the ecumenical movement (1920-1964) an historical evaluation /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Alenezi, Fahaad J. M. M. "Usuli Shi'ism and state approaches to Islamic unity : the ecumenical movement in post-Safavid Iran." Thesis, Durham University, 2009. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1950/.
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Penkett, Luke. "Finding one another in Christ : ecumenism in the life and writing of Henri J.M. Nouwen." Thesis, Lambeth Palace Library, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.734179.
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Bria, Benyamin Yoseph. "The competence of bishops in ecumenism in light of canons 383.3 and 755.2 of the 1983 Code of canon law." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Sandau, Wayne Reinhold. "The open church diversity in the local congregation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Dant, J. Nicholas. "A critical analysis of the responses to Communionis notio a 1992 letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Bryʹcko, Dariusz Mirosław Bryʹcko Dariusz Mirosław. "An ecumenical movement in early modern Europe a revision of Jan Łaski's irenic efforts among Polish Protestants /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2002.Abstract and vita. Appendix: Introduction to the Confession of Sandomierz / by Dariusz Mirosław Bryʹcko. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-79).
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Thompson, Todd Melvin. "Evangelicals abroad the British Evangelical Alliance and social concerns overseas, 1850-1900 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Benjamin, Keith Richard. "Missionary tendencies in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, 1980 to 2000: a critical history." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4165.
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Magister Philosophiae - MPhilThe problem that will be investigated in this research project may be formulated in the following way: Which tendencies may be identified in the mission programmes of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa during the period from 1980 to 2000? This thesis will provide a critical historical overview of missionary tendencies in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa from 1980 to 2000 with particular emphasis on the Journey to a New Land Convocation held in 1995. From 2000, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa had begun to reconsider the changes implemented following the Journey to a New Land Convocation. It will investigate such tendencies in the light of the emerging ecumenical paradigm of Christian mission as postulated by David Bosch. I will argue that three phases may be identified in the focus of the mission of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa during this period, namely 1) a period of ecumenical involvement from 1980-1993, 2) the introduction of the process called a “Journey to a New Land” from 1993 to 1995 and 3) the impact of this process on the mission of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa from 1995 to 2000. The thesis will provide an overview and critical analysis of these phases in order to assess whether the emerging ecumenical paradigm of Christian mission as postulated by David Bosch is reflected in each of these phases. A literary review indicates that the missionary focus of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa does not reflect the emerging postmodern paradigm of working towards togetherness. Nor does it proclaim a vision of unity but shows a tendency towards denominational needs. It does not embrace a diversity thereby enriching its missionary focus to give substance to the emerging ecumenical paradigm but shows more divergence than integration. There is also clear evidence that it opted for a holistic rather than a pluralistic approach to defining its missionary focus.
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Gallaher, Anastassy Brandon. "Catholic action ecclesiology, the Eucharist and the question of intercommunion in the ecumenism of Sergii Bulgakov /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Jambulosi, Mavuto. "What does Athens 2005 have to do with cape town 2010? A critical comparison of mission theologies of the commission for world mission and evangelism and of the Lausanne movement on social responsibility." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8165.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis research compares the similarities and differences in the official documents and proceedings of the Commission for World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) in Athens 2005 and the Lausanne Movement held in Cape Town in 2010. The former has always exhibited a missiology strong in issues of social justice while the latter has for a long time been consistent in identifying mission as evangelism. The close of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th saw the emergence of the social gospel, which came about as a result of the historical critical approach to biblical texts. Fundamentalists, arose as a reactionary phenomenon to the social gospel, while emphasizing fundamentals of the Christian doctrines and a strict premillennial eschatology which resisted social involvement in favour of salvation of souls.
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Donnelly, Jason. "Ecclesiology in Motion: Ecumenical Vocation and the Developing Ecclesial Identity and Self-Understanding of the United Church of Christ (USA)." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3754.
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Thesis advisor: Mark S. BurrowsEcclesiology in Motion: Ecumenical Vocation and the Developing Ecclesial Identity and Self-Understanding of the United Church of Christ (USA) By: Jason M. Donnelly Advisor: Mark S. BurrowsThis study explores the question of ecclesiology in the United Church of Christ by presenting a historically descriptive account of this church's developing ecclesial identity and self-understanding during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Chapter one, "Ecumenical Vocation and the Question of Ecclesiology in the United Church of Christ" considers the context and composition of the organic union that established the United Church of Christ in 1957, engages the founding documents and early developments of the UCC's ecclesial identity and self-understanding up to 1982, and situates this study within its larger historical, ecumenical, and theological contexts. Chapter two, "Corporate Expressions of Ecclesial Identity in the United Church of Christ" examines the emergence of a theologically descriptive tradition of ecclesial identity and self-understanding in the UCC. Proposing that this united and uniting church developed its own ecclesiological tradition in the process of responding to a series of ecumenical texts from the 1980s, this central chapter charts the gathering momentum of a maturing ecclesiological tradition evident in the processes and corporate responses of the UCC to these ecumenical texts as the young church remained faithful to its ecumenical vocation by adapting to an ecumenical context vastly different from the one that inspired the creation of the UCC in 1957. The four ecumenical texts that provoked these corporate expressions of the UCC's ecclesial identity between 1982 and 1995 include: Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, the 1982 text produced by the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches; An Invitation to Action, the 1984 text produced from Series III of the Lutheran-Reformed Dialogue; The COCU Consensus, the 1984 text presented to the member churches of the Consultation on Church Union for formal action; and Churches in Covenant Communion, the 1988 text, also presented to the member churches of the Consultation on Church Union for formal action.Chapter three, "Deepening Ecclesial Self-Understanding" briefly explores the origins and ecclesiological significance of the UCC's three full-communion agreements, focusing primarily on the theological content behind the UCC's most recent full-communion agreement with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Reformed Church of America.Chapter four, "Assembling the Expressions of Ecclesial Self-Understanding" presents the theological content expressed in the four corporate texts considered in chapter two in conversation with The Nature and Mission of the Church.Chapter five, "Conclusion" provides a brief overview of the study and suggestively explores the significance of what has been advanced in relation to the ecumenical movement in general and the UCC's ecclesiology in motion in particular
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
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Lape, Antanas. "The ecclesiology of communion in the encyclicals and post-synodal apostolic exhortations of John Paul II." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Tesfay, Aberra. "The nature of theology in the Ethiopian Church an illustration from the christological controversy of the 5th century /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Nantanga, Lukas Ilikola. "Towards an ethics of sustainable development : a contribution to the debate on a theology of economics in he ecumenical movement." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14961.
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Bibliography: leaves 134-8.Chapter one introduces the debate in the Ecumenical Movement surrounding problems of poverty, unemployment and environmental degradation. In particular, the argument draws on the sentiment in the Ecumenical Movement that these problems are the result of "classical and neo-classical economic thinking". Having established a global context and a theoretical framework in chapter one, chapters two and three focus on Namibia. Chapter two discusses the policies of the Namibian government in addressing the problems of poverty, unemployment and environmental degradation, and chapter three examines the responses of the Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN) to these problems. In particular, it becomes evident that whereas the state in Namibia is attempting to address the three problems holistically - i.e., as inextricable from each other - the church shows a marked human interest at the expense of environmental concern. Chapter four introduces the Ecumenical Movement's Theology of Sharing as a Christian imperative for addressing threefold, intrinsically related problem of poverty, unemployment and environmental degradation. Chapter five proposes several models for the realization of this theology.
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Jaššo, Jaroslav. "The reconciliation process between the Greek Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine through the healing of memories." Chicago, IL : Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.033-0829.
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Jillions, John A. "The language of enemies." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Abreu, Fábio Henrique de. "Do ecumenismo libertador à libertação ecumênica: uma análise do Centro Ecumênico de Documentação e Informação (1974-1994)." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2010. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/3831.
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A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar o movimento de renovação teológica que deu origem, em 1974, ao Centro Ecumênico de Documentação e Informação (CEDI). A partir da contextualização do desenvolvimento da reflexão teológica ecumênica latino-americana e brasileira, liderada por setores do protestantismo histórico de missão, este trabalho pretende analisar as razões que proporcionaram o nascimento de uma nova linguagem teológica protestante na América Latina, responsável por impulsionar setores do protestantismo à afirmação de um projeto político-religioso alternativo, voltado para a tarefa libertária de humanização da vida. Nesta tarefa analítica, especial atenção é dada à teologia de Richard Shaull. Esta linguagem teológica, construída a partir da contextualização das discussões em torno à temática da responsabilidade social promovidas pelo Conselho Mundial de Igrejas (CMI), ensejou uma nova forma de relacionamento entre religião e sociedade, fé e política. A história do CEDI, conseqüência direta desse movimento de renovação teológica, representa uma práxis ecumênica ampla, comprometida com os desafios da sociedade e com a tarefa de construção democrática do Brasil. Esta pesquisa, ao resgatar sua história, constitui uma análise da práxis ecumênica brasileira e dos elementos teológicos que a fundamentam.
This essay aims to analyze the movement of theological renewal that gave rise, in 1974, to the Ecumenical Centre for Documentation and Information (CEDI). From the context of the development of Latin-American and Brazilian ecumenical reflection, led by sectors of historical Protestantism of mission, this paper discusses the reasons that gave rise to a new Protestant theological language in Latin America, responsible for driving sectors of Protestantism to the assertion of an alternative political-religious project, facing the liberating task of humanization of life. In this analytical task, special attention is given to Richard Shaull’s theology. This theological language, built from the contextualization of discussions around the theme of social responsibility promoted by the World Council of Churches (WCC), led to a new form of relationship between religion and society, faith and politics. The history of CEDI, a direct consequence of this movement of theological renewal, represents a broad ecumenical praxis, committed to the challenges of society and to the task of building democracy in Brazil. This research, drawing on its history, constitutes an analysis of Brazilian ecumenical praxis and of theological elements that underlie it.
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Sakupapa, Teddy Chalwe. "Eecclesiology and ethics: An analysis of the history of the all Africa conference of churches (1963-2013)." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5572.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis study entails an historical investigation of how the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) has addressed the ecumenical tension between ecclesiology and ethics in its history between 1963 and 2013. The study is arguably the first comprehensive analysis of the history of the AACC focussing on ecclesiology and ethics and will therefore make an original contribution to ecumenical theology in Africa in this regard. The study argues that the tension between what the church is (read: ecclesiology) and what it does (read: ethics) has undeniably been present in the ecumenical movement in Africa. The study is situated within two concentric contexts. Firstly, it is located within the context of the WCC study project on ecclesiology and ethics that was conducted during the period 1992 to 1996 and will contribute to wider discourse in this regard. The WCC project was an attempt to bridge a deep divide in the ecumenical movement between those who emphasise that the way to unity is through doctrinal agreement and those who believe that "doctrine divides" while a common moral cause (service) may unite. Secondly, this study is aimed at discerning how the AACC has addressed the relationship between the theological quest for unity (read: ecclesiology) and the social responsibility of the church (read: ethics). The study examines how the AACC assisted its member churches to respond to contemporary challenges in three distinct periods in recent African history, namely the periods of decolonisation (1963-1974), development (1975-1992) and neo-liberal globalisation (1993-2013). The hypothesis of this study is that these periods correlate with the AACC's ways of negotiating the tension between ecclesiology and ethics. The study argues that although the AACC has privileged the social agenda of the church in society (read: ethics), the ecumenical quest for ecclesial unity (read: ecclesiology) has not been completely absent. While the study acknowledges that the tension between ecclesiology and ethics is not easily resolved, it affirms that these two ecumenical concerns are inseparable. The study therefore suggests an appropriation of the African notion of ubuntu as a horizon for ecclesiology and ethics. The intuition behind the proposal is that ubuntu resonates with biblical notions of koinonia and diakonia and is thus an apt notion for an articulation of the interconnectedness between ecclesiology and ethics. The study is divided into two parts, comprising eight chapters. The first part covers four chapters in which I offer an historical background to the modern ecumenical movement, an analysis of the ecclesiology and ethics debate in the wider ecumenical context and a brief institutional history of the AACC. The second part of the study comprises three chapters. Therein, I present a critical analysis of the AACC's handling of the tension between ecclesiology and ethics in the period 1963-2013. Each chapter describes and analyses the various ways in which the AACC addressed the tension between the theological quest for the visible unity of the church on the one hand (read: ecclesiology) and the social responsibility of the church (read: ethics) on the other in specific socio-historical contexts. The hypothesis of the study is confirmed on the basis of such analysis. This study contributes to discourse in African theology on authenticity (read: ecclesiology) as expressed in theologies of inculturation and indigenisation and on social relevance (read: ethics) as expressed in theologies of liberation and reconstruction. It further contributes to academic reflection on the history of the ecumenical movement in Africa and the quest for an appropriate ecumenical vision on the African continent amidst the tensions between mainline churches, independent churches (AICs) and a variety of Pentecostal churches and the many social challenges that churches have to address.
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Lee, Paul D. "Pneumatological ecclesiology in the Roman Catholic-Pentecostal dialogue : a Catholic reading of the third quinquennium (1985-1989) /." Romae : Pontificia Studiorum Universitas a S. Thoma Aq. in Urbe, 1994. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/30431.
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Silva, Antonio Carlos Teles da. "As origens do movimento ecumênico na Amazônia Paraense." Faculdades EST, 2005. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=210.
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Este trabalho pretende descrever o surgimento do Movimento Ecumênico na Amazônia Paraense, identificando sua origem nas mobilizações pela libertação dos presos do Araguaia no início da década de 80. Esta identificação pressupõe uma análise do movimento em sua relação com a situação política do país ao final do governo militar, bem como sua relação com os movimentos populares de reivindicação social, mobilizados contra a violência agrária na Amazônia, particularmente na região do Araguaia. O autor demonstra que o Movimento Ecumênico ali surgido tem sua identidade e desenvolvimento definidos em função do compromisso com a realidade amazônica, ao mesmo tempo em que se reconhece como parte da tradição ecumênica e do ideal de unidade do Movimento Ecumênico histórico e mundial.
Como base teórica dessa análise, o autor utiliza o conceito de ecumenismo de base, como fenômeno religioso de grande força na América Latina, em íntima conexão com a Teologia da Libertação em sua opção preferencial pelos pobres e deserdados da terra.The purpose of this study is to describe the emergence of the ecumenical movement in the Amazon Region within the state of Para. It identifies its origin among the mobilizations for the Araguaia prisoners liberation in the early 80s. Such identification presupposes an analysis of the movement and its relation with the political situation in Brazil at the end of the military government, as well as an analysis of its relationship with social movements against rural violence in Amazonia, specifically in the Araguaia region. The author demonstrates that the identity and the development of the ecumenical movement is marked by its commitment with the reality in the Amazone region. At the same time, this ecumenical movement recognizes itself as a part of the ecumenical tradition and of the ideal of unity as represented by the historical and worldwide ecumenical movement. The author bases his theoretical analysis on the concept of base ecumenism as a religious phenomenon of great importance in Latin America, in close connection with Liberation Theology in its preferential option for the poor and the landless.
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Silva, Izaias Torquato da. "Efeitos de sentido do discurso político-religioso realizado por jovens: articulação em rede para monitoramento de políticas públicas." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2016. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1253.
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Este trabalho busca analisar o discurso sociopolítico e religioso apresentado por grupos de jovens envolvidos com a Rede Ecumênica de Juventude REJU , e o Monitoramento Jovem de Políticas Públicas MJPOP, a partir do bairro de Santo Aleixo, Jaboatão dos Guararapes PE; essas juventudes, interligadas em Rede, aparentam
apresentar uma militância religiosa engajada com as causas sociais, a partir de um a reflexão sociopolítica de incidência de suas realidades. Em seus discursos, parecem apresentar, como prioridade
, a melhoria do coletivo da cidade apresentada a partir do olhar de quem vive na periferia. Também, em diálogo com outros movimentos
religiosos, de cunho mais conservador e voltados para jovens
de linha protestante e carismática, analisaremos essas posições religiosas e políticas a partir do método pecheutiana de análise do discurso. Sobretudo, no trato de temas ligados as garantias de
políticas públicas voltadas para as juventudes brasileiras e na garantia dos Direitos Humanos. Inicialmente, apresentaremos para análise dois vídeos, produzidos e disponibilizados nas redes sociais
Facebook.com e Youtube.com feitos de maneira amadora onde se faz uma reflexão sociopolítica e ecológica ligando aos princípios do ecumenismo, do diálogo inter-religioso e ecológico. Ao mesmo tempo, o trabalho busca apresentar como essa discussão sociopolítica,
vivenciada no espaço virtual e interligada aos espaços religiosos,
é apresentada e influencia nos posicionamentos políticos e religiosos dessas juventudes a partir dos seus respectivos espaços de fé.This study aims to analyze the socio-political and religious discourses presented by youth groups involved with the Ecumenical Network of Youth Reju [Rede Ecumênica de Juventude] -and Youth Monitoring of Public Policies MJPOP [Monitoramento Jovem de Políticas Públicas], in Santo Aleixo, Jaboatãodos Guararapes Pernambuco State; these young peoples groups, interconnected in a network, seem to present a religious militancy engaged with social causes, from a socio-political reflection of incidence in their realities. In their speeches, they seem to have as a priority the improvement of the citys collectivity presented through the eyes of those who live on the outskirts. Also, in dialogue with other religious movements, of more conservative nature and focused on young people from protestant and charismatic lines, we will analyze these religious and political positions from Pecheuxs method of discourse analysis. Especially dealing with issues related to the guarantees of public policies for the Brazilian youth and ensuring human rights. Initially, we will present the analysis of two videos, produced and made available on social networks - Facebook.com and Youtube.com produced in an amateur way, where a socio-political and ecological reflection is done linking the principles of ecumenism, interreligious and ecological dialogues. At the same time, the study aims to present how this socio-political discussion, experienced in a virtual space and linked to religious spaces is presented and influence on political and religious positions of these young people from their respective spaces of faith.
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Lira, Lilian Conceição da Silva Pessoa de. "O Centro Ecumênico de Cultura Negra (CECUNE) e suas ações educativas." Faculdades EST, 2006. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=26.
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Centro Universitário Metodista IPAJunta Nacional de Educação Teológica da Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil
O presente trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa qualitativa na área de Religião e Educação, com foco em uma experiência construída por um segmento social e sua resposta à necessidade de intervenção como sujeito histórico no complexo contexto das relações sociais demarcadas pelas relações raciais no Brasil. Apresentar o Centro Ecumênico de Cultura Negra (CECUNE), Organização Não Governamental porto-alegrense, que tem atuado há vinte anos no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. A dissertação pretende destacar sua atuação no Movimento Negro e no Movimento Ecumênico; indicar suas ações educativas, como contribuições efetivas no processo contínuo e necessário de transformação da sociedade; bem como analisar alguns resultados de sua parceria com o Centro Universitário Metodista IPA, como um exemplo de ação educativa de inclusão de negras e negros carentes na universidade, propondo perspectivas que darão continuidade à pesquisa num posterior doutorado.
This present work is a result of qualitative research in the religion and education area, its focus is in an experience constructed by a social segment which answers to the necessity of an intervention as a historical subject in the context of the social relations demarcated by the racial relations in Brazil. This work presents the Centro Ecumênico de Cultura Negra (CECUNE), a non-governmental organization in the city of Porto Alegre, which has acted in the State of Rio Grande do Sul for twenty years. This dissertation seeks to point out its action in the Black Movement and the Ecumenical Movement, and its educative actions as effective contributions in the continuous and necessary process of transformation of the society. As well, this work analyzes some results of its partnership with the Centro Universitário Metodista IPA as an example of educative action for inclusion of black poor women and men in the university, proposing perspectives which will give continuity of this research at the doctoral level in the future.
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Collins, Dane Andrew. "The Christian theology of religions reconsidered : Alan Race's theology of religions, Hans Frei's theological typology and 20th century ecumenical movements on Christian engagement with other faiths." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278698.
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The contemporary debate concerning the Christian theology of religions has been profoundly shaped by Alan Race’s three-fold typology of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism. Although the insufficiency of this typology’s descriptive and critical capacity has become increasingly acknowledged within the field, widespread agreement about its replacement remains elusive. This thesis argues that a replacement can be found in Hans Frei’s five-fold typology of Christian theology, which differentiates between a range of approaches to theology, from theology as philosophical discourse (Type 1) to theology as quarantined, Christian self-description (Type 5). It is suggested that the more basic question posed by Frei’s typology of how Christian theology is understood in relation to philosophy and other external discourses, provides a better means of accounting for the different positions in the Christian theology of religions within 20th century ecumenical movements. It is shown how Frei’s typology emerges from his emphasis on both the limitations and the significance of external discourses for Christian theology, an emphasis which results from his construal of the mystery of Christ’s universal presence as a function of the particular incarnation in Jesus of Nazareth. Chapter one considers the philosophical foundations upon which Race’s typology is constructed, with particular emphasis on Troeltsch’s historicism, Hick’s epistemology of religious experience and WC Smith’s phenomenological hermeneutic, concluding that they determine the typology’s apologetic approach. It is shown how these commitments lead Race’s typology to differentiate between types of Christian theology primarily in relation to the philosophical viability, as Race understands it, of their Christology. Chapter two focuses first on the theology of Hans Frei and his analysis of the relationship between Christology and historicism, epistemology, and hermeneutics. It is suggested that Frei’s focus on the ordering of the relationship between Christian theology and external discourses, while undermining Race’s approach, affirms the possibility of a theologically valuable relationship between Christian theology and external discourses. Moreover, unlike Race, Frei’s emphasis on the significance of external discourses for Christian theology is derived in light of, and not in spite of, a faith in the incarnation and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Chapter three looks at Frei’s fivefold typology as a better means of accounting for the differences Race posits between exclusivists, inclusivists and pluralists. It is argued that in following Frei’s typological logic and the historical, epistemological and hermeneutical considerations characteristic of a Christian theology between types three and four, an approach to the theology of religions emerges which addresses the question of the universality of divine revelation – the central concern of Race’s typology – while also showing the inadequacy of Race’s typology and its prioritisation of philosophy. This will be shown by applying Frei’s typology to 20th century ecumenical movements and the positions on the theological significance of non-Christian religions that have emerged therein. Though Frei did not directly take up the issue of the Christian theology of religions, chapter three will demonstrate how his typology of Christian theology is of particular importance for this discussion. For his typology highlights the central question driving the theology of religions – how the ‘internal’ discourse of Christian self-description in reference to the gospels’ history-like witness to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ relates to the historically contingent, public world outside the church. The conclusion will point toward a constructive proposal for a theology of evangelism and interfaith dialogue in pluralist societies of the 21st century, drawing on the ecumenical discussion viewed in relation to the theological and typological insights of Hans Frei.
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Dörr, Elfriede. "Lernort Weltgebetstag : Zugänge zum ökumenischen Gebet durch den Weltgebetstag der Frauen /." Stuttgart : Kohlhammer, 2009. http://d-nb.info/99165031X/04.
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Rue, Rev Charles Douglas, and res cand@acu edu au. "Journey to the Margins: the Contribution of the Missionary Society of St Columban to the theory and practice of overseas mission within the Australian Catholic Church 1920-2000." Australian Catholic University. School of Arts and Sciences, 2002. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp24.29082005.
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This thesis aims to show that the Columban Society made definable and significant contributions to the Australian Catholic missionary movement. The scope of the thesis is an analysis of the work of the Missionary Society of St Columban (Columban Society) in Australia from 1920-2000. Rather than the Society’s foundation in Ireland or its overseas missionary work, the focus is the activity of the Columban Society in Australia. The thesis argues that the Columban Society helped advance the understanding and practice of overseas mission within the Australian Catholic Church in four major ways. Firstly, by organising support for its own missionary venture in China and elsewhere, it helped foster mission mindedness among Australian Catholics and established structures for the ongoing resourcing of missionary activity. Secondly, it set up seminaries to train missionary priests and later opened its reformed tertiary level missionary formation programs to all church personnel in Australia. Thirdly, it helped mould Catholic opinion through its commentary on such international issues as Australian relations with Asian peoples. Finally, it contributed to the development and dissemination of new Catholic theological teaching, particularly in relation to social justice and indigenous churches, religious dialogue and the connections between faith and ecology. The Columban Society carved out a position for itself in Australia through negotiating with the local Catholic Church. Starting as a group of diocesan priests and, from 1920 onwards, tapping into the numerous Irish church personnel in Australia, the Society grew to become a missionary arm of the local church. It created a network of financial support and influence at the grass roots level in parishes and schools through a system of regular visits, collections and a monthly magazine. As the world and church changed, it added mission education programs that fed back to Australian Catholics ideas and experiences coming from the new indigenous churches. The distinctive contribution of the Columban Society to the Australian Catholic Missionary Movement lies in its close relationship with diocesan based parish Catholics and the teaching role it developed about missionary experiences of overseas churches within the context of international affairs. The Society has a significant placewithin the social history of Australia because of the direct influence it had on the opinions of the more than a quarter of the Australian population who identified as Catholics. The history of the Society is also a case study in the application of the reforms of the Second Ecumenical Vatican Council of the Catholic Church 1962-1965 and the consequent redefinition of orthodox belief and practice.
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Abreu, Fábio Henrique de. "A Gestalt da graça e o desdobramento de uma consciência protestante no Brasil: responsabilidade social, ética e humanismo teológico." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2015. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1511.
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A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar o movimento de renovação teológica que deu origem a uma consciência protestante ecumênica na América Latina e no Brasil. A partir da contextualização do desenvolvimento da reflexão teológica ecumênica latino-americana e brasileira, liderada por setores do protestantismo histórico de missão, este trabalho pretende analisar as razões que proporcionaram o nascimento de uma nova linguagem teológica protestante neste contexto. Esta linguagem teológico-ética, radicalmente moderna, histórica e secular, tornou-se responsável por impulsionar setores do protestantismo à afirmação de um projeto político-religioso alternativo, voltado para a tarefa de humanização da vida. As lutas pela humanização da vida eram entendidas, do ponto de vista teológico, como manifestações, configurações históricas da forma (Gestalt) da graça. Nesta tarefa analítica, especial atenção é dada à teologia ética de Richard Shaull. Esta linguagem teológica, construída a partir da contextualização das discussões em torno à temática da responsabilidade social promovidas pelo Conselho Mundial de Igrejas (CMI), deu lugar a uma nova forma de relacionamento entre religião e sociedade, fé e política. Foi a partir desta história ecumênica que surgiram organismos ecumênicos como o movimento Igreja e Sociedade na América Latina (ISAL), o Centro Ecumênico de Informação (CEI), e o Centro Ecumênico de Documentação e Informação (CEDI). Estes organismos foram uma consequência, em maior ou menor grau, direta desse movimento de renovação teológica. Neste sentido, eles são representantes de uma práxis ecumênica ampla, que se compromete com os desafios da sociedade e com a tarefa de construção democrática do Brasil. Esta pesquisa, ao resgatar a história do desdobramento do nascimento de uma consciência protestante crítica, constitui uma análise da práxis ecumênica brasileira e dos elementos teológicos que a fundamentam.
This research aims to examine the movement of theological renewal that gave rise to an ecumenical Protestant conscience in Latin America and Brazil. From the contextualization of Latin American and Brazilian ecumenical theological reflection development, led by sectors of the historical Protestantism of mission, this work aims to analyze the reasons that contributed to the birth of a new Protestant theological language in this context. This theological-ethical language, radically modern, historical and secular, became responsible for promoting sectors of the Protestantism to the affirmation of an alternative political-religious project, aimed at the task of the humanization of life. The struggles of the humanization of life were understood, from the theological point of view, as manifestations, historical configurations of the form (Gestalt) of grace. In this analytical task, particular attention is given to the ethical theology of Richard Shaull. This theological language, constructed from the contextualization of discussions around the theme of social responsibility, promoted by the World Council of Churches (WCC), has given place to a new form of relationship between religion and society, faith and politics. It was from this ecumenical history that ecumenical organizations like the movement of Church and Society in Latin America (ISAL), the Ecumenical Information Center (CEI), and the Ecumenical Center of Documentation and Information (CEDI) emerged. These organisms were a direct consequence, to a great or less extent, of this movement of theological renewal. In this sense they are representatives of a broad ecumenical praxis, which is committed to the challenges of society and with the task of the democratic construction in Brazil. This research, rescuing the unfolding history of the birth of a critical Protestant consciousness, is an analysis of the Brazilian ecumenical praxis and its theological elements in which it is based.
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Sakupapa, Teddy Chalwe. "Ecclesiology and ethics: An analysis of the history of the All Africa Conference of Churches (1963 - 2013)." Thesis, The University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5534.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis study entails an historical investigation of how the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) has addressed the ecumenical tension between ecclesiology and ethics in its history between 1963 and 2013. The study is arguably the first comprehensive analysis of the history of the AACC focussing on ecclesiology and ethics and will therefore make an original contribution to ecumenical theology in Africa in this regard. The study argues that the tension between what the church is (read: ecclesiology) and what it does (read: ethics) has undeniably been present in the ecumenical movement in Africa. The study is situated within two concentric contexts. Firstly, it is located within the context of the WCC study project on ecclesiology and ethics that was conducted during the period 1992 to 1996 and will contribute to wider discourse in this regard. The WCC project was an attempt to bridge a deep divide in the ecumenical movement between those who emphasise that the way to unity is through doctrinal agreement and those who believe that “doctrine divides” while a common moral cause (service) may unite. Secondly, this study is aimed at discerning how the AACC has addressed the relationship between the theological quest for unity (read: ecclesiology) and the social responsibility of the church (read: ethics). The study examines how the AACC assisted its member churches to respond to contemporary challenges in three distinct periods in recent African history, namely the periods of decolonisation (1963-1974), development (1975-1992) and neo-liberal globalisation (1993-2013). The hypothesis of this study is that these periods correlate with the AACC’s ways of negotiating the tension between ecclesiology and ethics. The study argues that although the AACC has privileged the social agenda of the church in society (read: ethics), the ecumenical quest for ecclesial unity (read: ecclesiology) has not been completely absent. While the study acknowledges that the tension between ecclesiology and ethics is not easily resolved, it affirms that these two ecumenical concerns are inseparable. The study therefore suggests an appropriation of the African notion of ubuntu as a horizon for ecclesiology and ethics. The intuition behind the proposal is that ubuntu resonates with biblical notions of koinonia and diakonia and is thus an apt notion for an articulation of the interconnectedness between ecclesiology and ethics. The study is divided into two parts, comprising eight chapters. The first part covers four chapters in which I offer an historical background to the modern ecumenical movement, an analysis of the ecclesiology and ethics debate in the wider ecumenical context and a brief institutional history of the AACC. The second part of the study comprises three chapters. Therein, I present a critical analysis of the AACC’s handling of the tension between ecclesiology and ethics in the period 1963-2013. Each chapter describes and analyses the various ways in which the AACC addressed the tension between the theological quest for the visible unity of the church on the one hand (read: ecclesiology) and the social responsibility of the church (read: ethics) on the other in specific socio-historical contexts. The hypothesis of the study is confirmed on the basis of such analysis. This study contributes to discourse in African theology on authenticity (read: ecclesiology) as expressed in theologies of inculturation and indigenisation and on social relevance (read: ethics) as expressed in theologies of liberation and reconstruction. It further contributes to academic reflection on the history of the ecumenical movement in Africa and the quest for an appropriate ecumenical vision on the African continent amidst the tensions between mainline churches, independent churches (AICs) and a variety of Pentecostal churches and the many social challenges that churches have to address.
Sakupapa, T.C. (2017). Ecclesiology and ethics: An analysis of the history of the All Africa Conference of Churches (1963 - 2013). PhD thesis. University of the Western Cape. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5534
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Rodriguez, Miguel. "Confrontational Christianity: Contextual Theology and Its Radicalization of the South African Anti-Apartheid Church Struggle." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5466.
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This paper is intended to analyze the contributions of Contextual Theology and Contextual theologians to dismantling the South African apartheid system. It is intended to demonstrate that the South African churches failed to effectively politicize and radicalize to confront the government until the advent of Contextual Theology in South Africa. Contextual Theology provided the Christian clergy the theological justification to unite with anti-apartheid organizations. Its very concept of working with the poor and oppressed helped the churches gain favor with the black masses that were mostly Christian. Its borrowing from Marxist philosophy appealed to anti-apartheid organizations. Additionally, Contextual theologians, who were primarily black, began filling prominent leadership roles in their churches and within the ecumenical organizations. They were mainly responsible for radicalizing the churches and the ecumenical organizations. They also filled an important anti-apartheid political leadership vacuum when most political leaders were banned, jailed, or killed.ID: 031001426; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: Ezekiel Walker.; Title from PDF title page (viewed June 19, 2013).; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-149).
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Shin, Jeonghun. "Kirche als Weltforum zum Dialogverständnis in kirchlichen Dokumenten seit dem Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil." Berlin Münster Lit, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1000158225/04.
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Barreto, Bruno Junior Paz. "O ensino religioso no fundamental I no município de Abreu e Lima: uma abordagem ecumênica." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2014. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=992.
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Nas últimas décadas, tem sido grande o trânsito religioso do catolicismo para as Igrejas evangélicas de matiz mais pentecostal que enfatiza a ação do Espírito Santo sobre os fiéis, curando-lhes as feridas do corpo e da alma. Entre as Igrejas pentecostais a que mais vem crescendo é a Assembleia de Deus, fundada pelos suecos Daniel Berg e Gunnar Vingren no século passado. A vinda dessa Igreja ao Brasil passa primeiramente por Belém-PA, espalhando-se logo depois pelo Brasil, sendo a cidade de Abreu e Lima (PE) a mais protestante do Brasil. A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar
a questão do ensino religioso na cidade de Abreu e Lima em uma perspectiva ecumênica, analisando sobre tudo o desenvolvimento do movimento pentecostal na cidade. Tal movimento é puxado pela denominação pentecostal Assembleia de Deus que existe na cidade deste antes de sua fundação como cidade. A partir daí iremos compreender como tal
denominação influencia na formação dos cidadãos com o ensino religioso no município. A metodologia utilizada foi a bibliográfica e documental. Como resultados, hoje 41% dos habitantes de Abreu e Lima são assembleianos, tendo elegido o pastor como atual prefeito da cidade.In recent decades, there has been great religious transit from Catholicism to evangelical Pentecostal Churches that emphasizes the action of the Holy Spirit upon the faithful, healing their wounds of body and soul. Among Pentecostal churches is growing the fastest is the Assembly of God, founded by Swedes Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren last century. The coming of this church to Brazil was firstly Belém (PA), spreading soon after through across Brazil, being Abreu e Lima the most Protestant city in Brazil. This research aims to analyze the issue of religious education in the city of Abreu e Lima in an ecumenical perspective, analyzing everything about the development of the Pentecostal movement in the city. This movement is driven by the Assembly of God Pentecostal denomination that exists in this city before its foundation as city. From there we will understand how such a name influences in the formation of citizens with religious education in the city. The methodology used was the literature and documents. As results , today 41 % of the inhabitants of Abreu e Lima belong to Assembly Church, having elected the pastor as the current mayor of the city.
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Anca, Tibor Attila. "Minderheitenkirche in Ökumene und Gesellschaft : eine Untersuchung im Rahmen der Leuenberger Kirchengemeinschaft zur Reformierten Kirche in Rumänien /." Berlin [u.a.] : Lit-Verl, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2914106&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Reeh, Tina Alice Bonne. "The Church of England and Britain's Cold War, 1937-1948." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c197863-2037-4cf9-af48-590f5694abea.
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The thesis deals with Britain's early Cold War history and the political history of the Church of England. It mainly uses primary sources, and contributes to our growing understanding of the early Cold War, especially in its cultural/religious elements. It explores how the Church of England dealt with the development of the early Cold War in Britain. It argues that in order to understand better the Church of England's role, an account of its perspective on issues of state modernisation dating back to at least the 1930s is necessary. It was then, during a decade of authoritarianism, and especially at the Oxford Conference of 1937, that the Church' standpoint towards secularisation was established, while the transnational agenda of the ecumenical movement was also adopted and internalized by Church of England. The thesis also examines the agencies which it built and worked with: in particular the British Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches. As the Church is the Established Church, its relationship with specific government agencies, especially the British Foreign Office and the Ministry of Information also became increasingly important. The thesis reveals the Church of England's lack of autonomy in time of crisis and the importance of key individuals for the institutional leadership of the Church. Its ecumenical agenda had played an important role, but this was under pressure after the War, as a Europe-wide Christian community was increasingly challenged by 'Western Union' plans for a Cold War Western, Christian community and bloc. By 1948 the Church had been enrolled in the Cold War between East and West which was apparent in its alignment with British government policies and its withdrawn role in the ecumenical community. The thesis adds to our understanding of the Church of England's relationship to the state in these years, and contributes to the cultural dimension of the early Cold War in Britain.
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Blaj, Daniel. "Le principe ecclésiologique de l'oecuménisme chez Yves Congar : élaboration, réception et perspectives ecclésiales." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAK005.
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L’affirmation de l’Église « Une » comme une réalité présente dans l’histoire fait partie de la tradition catholique. Après la naissance du mouvement œcuménique, Yves Congar (1904-1995) introduit dans la théologie catholique le principe ecclésiologique de l’œcuménisme. Il s’agit de penser la vie chrétienne des autres baptisés à partir de leurs Communions. Pour mettre en évidence ce principe herméneutique, cette thèse étudie sa portée théologique dans l’œuvre congarienne (1931 à 1954), se penche sur sa réception dans le décret sur l’œcuménisme Unitatis Redintegratio (1964), dans l’encyclique Ut Unum Sint (1995) et dans quelques documents récents, avant de proposer son inscription dans une théologie de l’ Église structurée à partir de l’institutionnalité de la grâce, située dans une perspective eschatologiqueThe assertion of the Church as “One” present throughout history is part of the Roman Catholic tradition. After the appearance of the ecumenical movement, Yves Congar (1904-1995) introduces the ecclesiological principle of ecumenism in catholic theology. The idea is to think of the Christian life of the other baptized based on their Communion. To emphasize this hermeneutics’ principle, this thesis studies its theological impact on the congarian work (1931-1954) and ponders over its reception within the decree on ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio (1964), within the encyclical Ut Unum Sint (1995) as well as in recent documents. It will also lead on to suggesting its recording in one theology of the Church structured by the institutionalization of grace in an eschatological perspective
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Hasselgren, Johan. "Rural Batak, kings in Medan : The development of Toba Batak ethno-religious identity in Medan, Indonesia, 1912-1965." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-260.
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This study explores the history of the Toba Batak community in the city of Medan from1912 to 1965. The Toba Batak have traditionally lived in the rural interior highlands ofSumatra. In this region, their specific ethno-religious identity was developed. Thecrucial factor in the process was the activities and the theological convictions of theGerman Rhenish mission on which the Toba Batak themselves had a significant impact. During the first few decades of the 20th century the Toba Batak began to migrate to the plantation region on the east coast of Sumatra and its commercial entrepôt Medan.In this region, where the Malay Muslim culture was the local dominant culture, theystrove to fulfil their cultural ideals, among which the ideal of harajaon (kingdom) iscentral. The main analytical question pursued is: How did the Toba Batak ethno-religious identity develop in Medan, within the framework of the ethnic, religious, social andpolitical currents in the city? This question is analysed in terms of their changing relations to their area of origin,the interaction with other groups in Medan and the efforts of the Toba Batak to buildup their own organisations. The main focus is on the development of Christiancongregations, but the analysis also takes voluntary, political and women's organisationsinto account. The changing conditions for local ecumenical co-operation are alsoexplored. A wide selection of sources is used, such as missionary reports and correspondence, Dutch colonial records and Toba Batak written and oral sources. Most of these sources have not or only partly been employed in previous research.
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"Evangelicals and ecumenism in South Africa 1960-1990 : opportunities and pitfalls." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/83.
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The study explores the relationship of the evangelical movement in South Africa with the ecumenical movement. The focus of the latter was taken as organizationally embodied in the South African Council of Churches. The time period 1960 - 1990 was chosen for the study as this was a period of great socio political upheaval and testing for the churches. This was also a period that marked both the escalation of the struggle against apartheid as well as the accentuation of the differences that churches had among themselves as they were confronted with the reality of apartheid. The author believes that the trying times in view, 1960 -1990; best clarify the lessons that could be learned by both evangelicals and ecumenicals. The trials of this period presented the churches of South Africa unique opportunities for growth in the midst of intense struggles. The study seeks to unpack theological lessons that would perhaps not be as easy to see at a different time, for example under conditions of peace and quiet.Thesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.
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Pruitt, Harold Edward. "Ecumenism and theological convergence : a comparative analysis of Edinburgh 1910 and the Lausanne movement." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3041.
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Ecumenism and Theological Convergence: A Comparative Analysis of Edinburgh 1910 and the Lausanne Movement."
This thesis evaluates the Edinburgh 1910 World Mission Conference, the ecumenism that flowed from Edinburgh 1910, and its relationship to the ecumenical trends that exist within the Lausanne movement. Additionally, this thesis determines how ecumenism has attributed to a theological convergence, and then examines the impact of such theological convergence on the global church through parachurch organizations. It begins by laying the foundation for any theological convergence that existed at Edinburgh 1910. It then examines ecumenism within the Lausanne movement, theological significance of ecumenism, and its impact on the global church. Finally, the thesis explores the theological convergence within select parachurch organizations since Lausanne 1974 and analyzes the impact of theological convergence on the global church.
The researcher of this thesis has surveyed several sources to determine the originality of this topic through search engines World Cat, World Cat Dissertations, Dissertations, Article First, ATLA Religion, Humanities Index, Humanities Abstract, Christian Periodical Index, Worldscope, and also significant works about Lausanne 1974. The search revealed nothing substantial concerning Lausanne’s impact on the Global Church through parachurch organizations, the researcher deems this thesis to be an original work.Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
D. Th. (Missiology)Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
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Barnes, Jonathan Spencer. "Partnership in Christian mission : a history of the Protestant Missionary Movement." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/487.
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Despite the fact that partnership has be en a pronounced goal in ecumenical relationships for over eighty years, the realization of mutuality, solidarity, and koinonia has, even until present times, proven to be illusive. This fact raises a number of questions. First, why is this so? What wer e the historical antecedents that led to the concept of partnership? What were the original secular and religious contexts in which the term partnership was used, and how has its meaning been understood and contested over time? And secondly, what can we learn from this history? Are there any problematic issues or themes that repeatedly appear in the narrative, causing churches to continually fall short in these relationships? In seeking to answer these questions, this thesis will trace the history of ecu menical partnerships from its antecedents, found in the beginning of the modern Protestant missionary movement, through to current times, focusing on the relationships between churches historically involved in the International Missionary Council (IMC) and , after 1961 when the IMC integrated with the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME). Importantly, Lamin Sanneh’s typology of churches as either Global (the churches of the North or Western world, also forme rly known as ‘sending’ or ‘older’ churches) or World (the churches of the South and East, formerly known as ‘receiving’ or ‘younger’ churches) will be the lens used to understand these ecumenical relationships. Using this typology, each of the chapters th at form the main body of this research focuses on a different era of history and will follow a similar pattern. The first section of each chapter serves to situate the church’s partnership discourse in its secular setting, paying special attention to issu es pertaining to North/South political and economic power, as well as how power has been contested. The remainder of each chapter will trace the ecumenical history of partnership, focusing especially on the discussions and findings of world ecumenical mis sion meetings, starting with The Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions in New York in 1900. While the main emphasis will be on these ecumenical meetings and their findings, attention will also be given to individuals and events that played significant roles in the development of the understanding and practice of partnership. Significantly, at the conclusion of each chapter four prominent themes or issues will be traced which continually reappear in the narrative and make partnership difficult to reali ze. When reviewing this history, it is evident that the term partnership was a product of colonial times and therefore captive to colonial and, later, neocolonial interpretations. However, it is also clear that from the very beginnings of the moder n Protestant missionary movement some church and missionary leaders, from both the Global and World churches, have sought to ground partnership in Biblical, egalitarian, and liberationist understandings. While this can serve to encourage those involved in partnership today, the historical analysis also shows plainly four key themes or issues that continually make the attainment of equitable relationships impossible to realize; namely, the home base , humanitarianism and development , authority , and rhetoric and reality . It is clear that the differences in worldviews, as described by Sanneh’s typology, have had and continue to have detrimental effects on the relationships between the churches of Global and World Christianity. Given this history, it is assert ed in this thesis that for ecumenical partnerships to have any chance of overcoming these issues, the churches of Global Christianity must stop seeing mission as expansion and lose the desire to remake others in their image; in short, they must become, in their worldview and ethos, World churches.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2010.
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Reynolds, Justin M. "Against the World: International Protestantism and the Ecumenical Movement between Secularization and Politics, 1900-1952." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8668DBF.
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The ecumenical movement was the major international expression of organized Protestantism in the first half of the twentieth-century. This dissertation reconstructs the intellectual origins of the movement and its principal institutions, showing how ecumenical ideas and practices were transformed in response to geopolitical cataclysms, such as World War I, the collapse of European order in the 1930s, the Cold War, and decolonization, that divided international Protestant and Orthodox elites in the North Atlantic and Asia. Focusing on church leaders and lay intellectuals like John Mott, Joseph Oldham, Emil Brunner, Karl Barth, Willem A. Visser’t Hooft, John Foster Dulles, and M. M. Thomas, the project shows how a new relation between Christian faith and politics emerged from Protestant-led efforts to internationalize religious authority.
Seeking to manifest world unity through common faith, ecumenists successively redefined the meaning of Christianity in their efforts to secure international consensus on the public role of the church among a politically polyglot constituency that included liberals, conservatives, communists, and fascists. This dissertation argues that the ecumenical movement went through three stages between 1900 and 1952: the first oriented around building the Kingdom of God on earth (1900-1925), the second seeking the realize the worldwide church as the basis of universal community (1930-1950), and the third mobilizing Christians for political revolution (1946-1952). The focus of the dissertation – chapters 2 through 5 – concerns the rise and decline of the ecumenical project to realize the church, which I argue was the first systematic and internationally successfully effort to articulate “ecumenicity” as a form of Christian pluralism. I show how this project was grounded in a missionary theology of anti-secularism that attributed a breakdown of social and international order to modern civilization’s repudiation of God. First defined at a conference of the International Missionary Conference in 1928 as a new “system of life and thought” that had displaced other religions as Christianity’s chief global rival, “secularism” identified an enemy that Allied and German Protestants, estranged since World War I, could unite in opposing. Mobilizing dialectical theology against the “totalitarian” claims of the state and the cogito alike, ecumenical anti-secularists jettisoned the historicist theological liberalism on which earlier forms of Protestant internationalism was based. In the 1930s, organizations like the Universal Christian Council of Life and Work and the World Council of Churches institutionalized theological dialogue as a mode of submission to God’s sovereignty; for the architects of these bodies, Christian faith was the only possible basis of community life in an age of global fracture. A strategy of international consolidation that ascribed political polarization to spiritual alienation, the ascendant anti-secularism of the 1930s did not anathematize the Nazi-sympathizing Reich church but sought to incorporate it into a world Christian community prioritizing the subordination of “political” to religious loyalties.
After 1948, however, the ecumenical program to realize the church collapsed as its leaders struggled to surmount the ideological divisions of the Cold War. While Eastern European church leaders attacked the World Council as a mask for Western imperialism, critics in the West attacked the Council as an agent or stooge of world Communism. To escape the ideological impasse of East and West, the movement turned to the Third World in search of a new basis of global Christian unity. Reinventing the ecumenical project in the postwar world, a younger generation of theologians from the global South argued that the universal fellowship of the church would be actualized not by overcoming politics, but by specifying political commitments in solidarity with the liberation struggles of the poor, the non-white, and the colonized. In this paradoxical denouement, those struggling to surmount internal political divisions embraced political action as the essential expression of religious faith, and Christianity, long declared to be the basis of social order, came to be seen as its revolutionary solvent. By locating the ecumenical movement within a history of the ideas that made its institutional functioning possible, this project breaks from common narratives that lodge the movement within trajectories of secularization that rely on problematic attempts to adjudicate the boundaries between theological and non-theological thought and practice.
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Houston, William John. "A critical evaluation of the University Christian Movement as an ecumenical mission to students, 1967 -1972." Diss., 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16970.
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Text in EnglishThis dissertation has examined the University Christian Movement (UCM) over its turbulent five year history from 1967 to 1972 in terms of the original hopes of the sponsoring ecumenical denominations. Contextual factors within the socio-political arena of South Africa as well as broader youth cultural influences are shown to have had a decisive influence. These factors help to explain the negative reaction from the founding churches. While this is not a thesis on Black Consciousness, nevertheless the contribution of the UCM to the rise of Black Consciousness and Black Theology is evaluated. UCM is shown to be a movement well ahead of its time as a forerunner in South Africa of Black Theology, contextual theology, feminism, modem liturgical styles, and intercommunion. As such it was held in suspicion. It suffered repressive action from the government and alienation from the churches. Constant cross referencing to other organisations such as the World Student Christian Federation, the National Union of South African Students, the South African Council of Churches, the Christian Institute, and the Sllldents Christian Association, helps to locate the UCM within the flow of contemporary history. The concluding evaluation differs markedly from the report of the Schlebusch Commission by making both critical and positive judgement from the perspective of the UCM as an ecumenical mission to students.
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Miti, Bambo. "In search of an Ecumenical Pentecostal Ecclesiology: a critical analysis of Kӓrkkӓinen’s Ecclesiology." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27085.
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Pentecostalism has always been regarded as a movement that does not have all the
ecclesiastical qualities that qualify it to be called a fully-fledged tradition alongside other
major streams of Protestantism. Contrary to popular theologies that undermine the great
role that the Pentecostal tradition can play in the global church, modern Pentecostal
theologies agree that most of the misconceptions and assumption are misplaced because
the Pentecostal tradition is a rich tradition with vital elements and symbols necessary to
advance the ecumenical goal of unity and reconciliation. Based on this perception that
Pentecostal ecclesiology is ecumenical, this research critically analyses Pentecostal
ecclesiology as portrayed by Kärkkäinen in order to determine its ecumenicity or relevance
to the ecumenical goals of unity, tolerance and reconciliation. This research confronts the
paternalistic assumptions and misconception that regard Pentecostalism as simply a
superstitious and naive sect which is only relevant to the lower class by bringing out the
different elements and symbols within the tradition that are vital for the success and
development of the global church in a modern global context. Some of the critical elements
and symbols within the Pentecostal tradition that are explored within this study include÷
unity in diversity, the mission nature of the church, experiences of the Spirit as portrayed in
its Pneumatological Christology and Soteriology, its rapid adaptation to new global south
contexts and critical elements of inclusivity and plurality as portrayed in the foundations of
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Rivera, Mary Anne. "Jubilee magazine and the development of a Vatican II ecclesiology." 2004. http://etd1.library.duq.edu/theses/available/etd-11232004-143934/.
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