In 1998, at the eighth Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Harare, Zimbabwe, a motion was tabled -- and subsequently accepted by the delegates that the World Council designate 2001-2010 as the "Decade to Overcome Violence". In this book Fernando Enns, the delegate who proposed the mo-tion in Harare, presents the theological foundations underlying his call for the churches of the world to work toward overcoming violence. Enns proposes that both Christian ethics and ecclesiology need to be based on a trinitariatilview of God as creator of the world, incarnated in Christ, and present in...
In 1998, at the eighth Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Harare, Zimbabwe, a motion was tabled -- and subsequently accepted by the delegate...
Ecumenical dialogue is not an end in itself. It serves as an indispensable instrument to overcome the divisive, mutual misinterpretations of the past. Ecumenical encounters pave the way toward healing painful memories and lead to a deeper understanding of the church's given unity, thus becoming a more credible witness of that truth. Mennonites in Dialogue is a collection of all conversation texts involving Mennonites on international and national levels, covering forty years of encounters with Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Reformed, Baptists, and Seventh-Day Adventists, among others. The texts...
Ecumenical dialogue is not an end in itself. It serves as an indispensable instrument to overcome the divisive, mutual misinterpretations of the past....
