<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Rather than lamenting a crisis of the Ecumenical movement the author suggests that the reader look at promising paradigms that become apparent within the present changes and challenges of World Christianity. He identifies six promising trends, as Christians of different traditions recognize partners in common witness beyond their own church traditions (1), evangelical and Pentecostal churches rise in significance (2), ecumenism becomes increasingly shaped by biographical experience and personal encounter (3), a spiritual ecumenism for the witness in the world emerges (4), the reality of martyrdom deepens the sense of Christian unity (5) and the search for the truth of the Gospel is not given up (6). In their overlapping and sometimes contradictory evidence these paradigms prove Ecumenism to be alive and, therefore, changing its face.</p></abstract>

Rather than lamenting a crisis of the Ecumenical movement the author suggests that the reader look at promising paradigms that become apparent within the present changes and challenges of World Christianity. He identifies six promising trends, as Christians of different traditions recognize partners in common witness beyond their own church traditions (1), evangelical and Pentecostal churches rise in significance (2), ecumenism becomes increasingly shaped by biographical experience and personal encounter (3), a spiritual ecumenism for the witness in the world emerges (4), the reality of martyrdom deepens the sense of Christian unity (5) and the search for the truth of the Gospel is not given up (6). In their overlapping and sometimes contradictory evidence these paradigms prove Ecumenism to be alive and, therefore, changing its face.

Unity to the Greater Glory of God. Promising Paradigms in Current Ecumenism

Prof. Dr. Christoph Raedel, Professor of Systematic Theology and History of Doctrine at the Freie Theologische Hochschule Gießen.

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu

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Rather than lamenting a crisis of the Ecumenical movement the author suggests that the reader look at promising paradigms that become apparent within the...

Unity to the Greater Glory of God. Promising Paradigms in Current Ecumenism

Published Online: Sep 18, 2016

Page range: 169 - 186

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ress-2016-0015

Keywords
ecumenism, future, evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, witness, martyrdom, truth

© 2016 Christoph Raedel, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Unity to the Greater Glory of God. Promising Paradigms in Current Ecumenism

Published Online: Sep 18, 2016

Page range: 169 - 186

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ress-2016-0015

Keywordsecumenism, future, evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, witness, martyrdom, truth

© 2016 Christoph Raedel, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
ecumenism, future, evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, witness, martyrdom, truth