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Article: Francesca Aran Murphy and Christopher Asprey, editors, Ecumenism Today: the Universal Church in the 21st Century.(Book review)
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- The Ecumenical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Francesca Aran Murphy and Christopher Asprey, editors, Ecumenism Today: the Universal Church in the 21st Century, Aldershot, UK & Burlington, USA, Ashgate, 2008, 222 pp, GB 55 [pounds sterling]
The essays in this collection are presented as (in the words of Christopher Asprey's Introduction) "ventures in a particular type of ecumenical theology ... exercises in 'straight talking'", intended to address the current "ecumenical winter" in fresh ways.
It sounds like the beginning of something interesting. We might expect to hear unfamiliar and, maybe, forceful voices in conversation. We might encounter distinctive approaches to ecumenical theology, ...