Towards a Common Global Ecumenical Assembly?

To be even more specific, and as a minimum next step, I propose that this assembly give us a mandate to accelerate the dialogue with the Lutheran World Federation [LWF] and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches [WARC] to explore possibilities of holding our next assemblies as a combined event. In...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Ecumenical review 2006-07, Vol.58 (3-4), p.223-252
1. Verfasser: Brown, Stephen
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Zusammenfassung:To be even more specific, and as a minimum next step, I propose that this assembly give us a mandate to accelerate the dialogue with the Lutheran World Federation [LWF] and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches [WARC] to explore possibilities of holding our next assemblies as a combined event. In his new book on the future of the ecumenical movement,72 Samuel Kobia returns to the need for a "more coherent, dynamic, focused and responsive configuration of the ecumenical movement".73 Many member churches are urgently calling for a consolidation of ecumenical structures beyond the local and national levels, he writes, in a situation where delegates are sent to several world assemblies in the same year, coupled with a "seemingly endless round of specialized meetings", and with "even full-time staff members of the WCC and the churches" being unable to keep track of the vast array of documents that such meetings produce.
ISSN:0013-0796
1758-6623
DOI:10.1111/j.1758-6623.2006.tb00603.x