<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The Leuenberg Agreement (LA) is one of the most productive ecumenical documents ever seen. It initiated a church fellowship, the “Community of Protestant Churches in Europe” (CPCE). LA evoked an ongoing process of its’ own reception that can be seen in a variety of different expressions such as church communion, doctrinal conversations and public statements. However, this reception is still all too frequent limited to the European level of interaction between the member churches of CPCE. It remains one of the main challenges for the Community, a condition for “Verbindlichkeit” and the legitimated representation of its members to strengthen the awareness for the relevance of LA and CPCE in the single parishes.</p></abstract>

The Leuenberg Agreement (LA) is one of the most productive ecumenical documents ever seen. It initiated a church fellowship, the “Community of Protestant Churches in Europe” (CPCE). LA evoked an ongoing process of its’ own reception that can be seen in a variety of different expressions such as church communion, doctrinal conversations and public statements. However, this reception is still all too frequent limited to the European level of interaction between the member churches of CPCE. It remains one of the main challenges for the Community, a condition for “Verbindlichkeit” and the legitimated representation of its members to strengthen the awareness for the relevance of LA and CPCE in the single parishes.

Experience Europe! The Reception of the Leuenberger Agreement as Model and Constant Challenge

Jan Gross. The author recently finished his doctoral thesis in protestant theology at Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz.

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu

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The Leuenberg Agreement (LA) is one of the most productive ecumenical documents ever seen. It initiated a church fellowship, the “Community of Protestant...

Experience Europe! The Reception of the Leuenberger Agreement as Model and Constant Challenge

Published Online: Sep 18, 2016

Page range: 238 - 252

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ress-2016-0019

Keywords
Leuenberg Agreement, realization, Community of Protestant Churches in Europe, reception, European level, parish level, Verbindlichkeit

© 2016 Jan Gross, published by De Gruyter Open

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

Experience Europe! The Reception of the Leuenberger Agreement as Model and Constant Challenge

Published Online: Sep 18, 2016

Page range: 238 - 252

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ress-2016-0019

KeywordsLeuenberg Agreement, realization, Community of Protestant Churches in Europe, reception, European level, parish level, Verbindlichkeit

© 2016 Jan Gross, published by De Gruyter Open

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

Keywords
Leuenberg Agreement, realization, Community of Protestant Churches in Europe, reception, European level, parish level, Verbindlichkeit