Recently added articles from The Ecumenical Review:
The quarterly of the World Council of Churches.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Guest Editorial The year 2009 marks the 75th anniversary of the Confessional Synod of Barmen and its Theological Declaration, by which representatives of the Confessing Church in Germany rejected the incursions of the Nazi state into church life. To commemorate the anniversary, ...
Barmen and the ecumenical movement.(Free Synod of Barmen of May 1934)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Free Synod of Barmen of May 1934 and its Theological Declaration constituted, from the very beginning, an ecumenical event. This was obviously so on the German level, bringing together as it did so many from the regional and confessional diversity of the "German Evangelical Church" ....
Barmen, the ecumenical movement, and the Jews: the missing thesis.(Barmen Declaration)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The silence about the Jews at Barmen is often portrayed as the silence before the storm. Barmen took place before the Nuremberg laws, before Kristallnacht, before those historical markers that we see as turning points in the intensification of Jewish persecution. The focus of Protestant ...
A message "to all people" the missionary task of Protestant churches in Europe--in the light of Barmen's sixth thesis.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria is in many respects typical of those that belong to the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe, especially in the area of southeast Europe. Since the 1970s our church has been experiencing a slow but steady decline in ...
Confessing the Triune God in a globalized era.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... I Confessing has always being at the heart of the Lutheran tradition. During the 20th century Dietrich Bonhoeffer from the left, and Hermann Sasse from the right, revived the notion of status confessionis in the midst of the Nazi onslaught in Germany. While participating in ...
The contemporary relevance of the Barmen Declaration to the struggle of the church in the political arena.(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... When considering the contemporary relevance of the Barmen Declaration in Indonesia, the churches of Indonesia face a particular historical and theological context in a country with the world's largest Muslim population. The largest church in Indonesia is the Protestant Christian Batak ...
The reception of the Barmen Declaration in South Africa.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... This essay discusses the reception in South Africa of the 1934 Barmen Declaration of the Confessing Church in Germany. Barmen informed the theological resistance against apartheid of the ecumenical movement in South Africa, and specifically also the resistance of Black Theology to ...
What did the Barmen Declaration have to say to the churches of the German Democratic Republic?(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... A detailed presentation of the full extent of the influence of the Barmen Declaration in the churches in the German Democratic Republic would take us far beyond the scope of this essay. That is a task for the historians. I would like instead to try to show how this confession dating from ...
Barmen in the Presbyterian Church (USA): a process toward reception in the United States.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Presbyterian Church (USA) commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of one of its confessional standards, the Theological Declaration of Barmen, at the church's 1984 General Assembly in Phoenix, Arizona. Historical perspective was offered, along with an assertion of current relevance, in ...
The Barmen Declaration in the Presbyterian-reformed church in Cuba.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Until 1967, the Presbyterian-Reformed Church in Cuba was part of the New Jersey synod of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA. When it became independent, the Cuban church adopted the US denomination's "Book of Confessions", and this included the Barmen Declaration. This does not ...
Ecumenical chronicle together on the way towards just peace.
Mar 01, 2009 ... Preamble This declaration on peace has been developed in an ecumenical course of the Institute of Peace Church Theology of the University of Hamburg/Germany (winter-semester 2007/2008 and summer-semester 2008), in collaboration with the department "Overcoming Violence" of the ...
Gunther J. Hermann, Apartheid as an ecumenical challenge. The role of the church in the South African conflict/Apartheid als okumenische Herausforderung. Die Rolle der Kirche im Sudafrikakonflikt.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Gunther J. Hermann, Apartheid als okumenische Herausforderung. Die Rolle der Kirche im Sudafrikakonflikt [Apartheid as an ecumenical challenge. The role of the church in the South African conflict], Frankfurt, Verlag Otto Lembeck, 2006, pp.542, 24.00 [euro] The apartheid ...
Katharina Kunter, Fulfilled hopes and broken dreams: Protestant churches in Germany between the conflicting conceptions of democracy and socialism (1980-1993)/Erfullte Hoffnungen und zerbrochene Traume: Evangelische Kirchen in Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von Demokratie und Sozialismus (1980-1993).(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Katharina Kunter, Erfullte Hoffnungen und zerbrochene Traume: Evangelische Kirchen in Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von Demokratie und Sozialismus (1980-1993) [Fulfilled hopes and broken dreams." Protestant churches in Germany between the conflicting conceptions of democracy and socialism ...
Joachim Garstecki (ed.), The Ecumenical Movement and Resistance against Dictatorships: National Socialism and Communism as a challenge to the Churches/Die Okumene und der Widerstand gegen Diktaturen: Nationalsozialismus und Kommunismus als Herausforderung an die Kirchen.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Joachim Garstecki (ed.), Die Okumene und der Widerstand gegen Diktaturen: Nationalsozialismus und Kommunismus als Herausforderung an die Kirchen [The Ecumenical Movement and Resistance against Dictatorships: National Socialism and Communism as a challenge to the Churches], Stuttgart, ...
John O'Grady and Peter Scherle (eds), Ecumenics from the Rim. Explorations in honour of John D'Arcy May.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... John O'Grady and Peter Scherle (eds), Ecumenics from the Rim. Explorations in honour of John D'Arcy May, Berlin, Lit Verlag, 2007, pp.498, EUR 49.90 What a splendid idea: starting a new series on Theology, Ethics and Interreligious Relations of the Irish School of Ecumenics ...
Richard Howell (ed.), Global Christian Forum, Transforming Ecumenism.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Richard Howell (ed.), Global Christian Forum, Transforming Ecumenism, New Delhi, Evangelical Fellowship of India, 2007, pp.186, Rs150 "The Global Christian Forum is an idea whose time has come". This refrain is repeated by several authors in this timely book. And indeed anyone ...
Editorial.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2008; ... The book of Genesis ends the story of creation, of the fall and of the flood with the tale of the tower of Babel. The story is only nine verses long but poses complex questions about both linguistic diversity and whether human beings use collective understanding to aspire to build towers ...
I Am the Whanua, a poetic meditation.(Poem)
Oct 01, 2008; ... <Pre>I am the fanuaThe placenta buried in my ancestral land after childbirthI am the puteThe umbilical cord buried and my link to my fanua I am the fanuaThe land which holds my history, my life, my deathI am the fanuaThe land of my people, my ...
Telling the story of the land without evil: "Terra sem Males" in Portuguese, or "Maira" in Guarani.(Viewpoint essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... In the sixteenth century the Tupy-Guarani peoples lived in a vast area in the middle of South America--from the region of the Amazon as far as the Chaco region almost to the frontiers of the Inca Empire. Now only small Guarani groups remain in Brazil and mostly in Paraguay where the ...
Can justice be a criterion for Bible translation? Symposium "Sola scriptura"--the relevance of the Protestant heritage today. A critical discussion of a new German translation of the Bible: Die Bibel in gerechter Sprache ("The Bible in just language").(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Doing justice to the text 1. Justice not only can be a criterion for Bible translation but, in the sense of doing justice to the text, it must be a criterion. On this there is no disagreement. But doing justice to the text already implies two poles of reference, the respective ...