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On January 17-20, 2005 the third round of the Princeton-Kampen Consultation took place in Princeton. The theme was � The Reality of God and the Reality of Faith, with basic points of reference in the Church Dogmatics being II/1, 28-31 and IV/1, 63. Presenters were encouraged, however, to approach the topic dialogically and according to their own special research interests rather than simply offering expositions of sections of the Church Dogmatics, the appeal of which would be limited to specialists in Barth's theology. As the papers included in this volume attest, the result was a remarkable variety of studies of Barth in dialogue with other theologians and philosophers on the chosen theme.

Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien. Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity. Vol. 125. Edited by Richard Friedli, Jan A. B. Jongeneel, Klaus Koschorke, Theo Sundermeier and Werner Ustorf When German missiologists started to re-import their dream of a dominant Christianity to central Europe, there were more similarities between the missionary and the national socialist utopias than the post-war consensus would like to admit. Fascism to many missiologists became the desired breaking point of modernity, a revival of the Volk's deep emotions and a breakthrough of the archaic spirituality they had long been waiting for. Upon this tide they wanted to sail and conquer new territories for Christ. This study, therefore, will address the issue of mission and Nazism primarily in the light of the struggle of Christianity for a place or a home within and vis-a-vis the culture of the West as it was approaching the end of modernity. Contents: Christian missionary thinking in its broad historical context - Explicitly missionary but non-Christian movements in Germany at the time (Hitler's missiology and Hauer's neopaganism) - Attempts in the US, in Britain and the wider ecumenical movement (William Hocking, Joe Oldham, the Oxford conference of 1937) at rethinking Christianity.

In 1966 the Livingston Ecumenical Experiment was launched by the induction of the Revd James Maitland, Church of Scotland, and the Revd Brian Hardy, Episcopal Church, to the new ecumenical charge of Livingston, West Lothian. This book describes the origins of the ecumenical movement, the early years in Livingston, and the close co-operation of the church with the community to solve various problems which presented themselves.

Agreed common texts for key Christian prayers, creeds, and the elements of historic liturgies, offered for consideration and study by those who wish to keep abreast of current thinking and scholarship in the development of liturgical language.

Der Theologe Adolf Keller war einer der Pioniere der okumenischen Bewegung fur Praktisches Christentum und wahrend 20 Jahren pragend fur den Evangelischen Kirchenbund der Schweiz. Nach dem 1. Weltkrieg vermittelte er die Kontakte zwischen den Kirchen Nordamerikas und Europas. 1925 wurde er Zweiter Generalsekretar der Bewegung fur Praktisches Christentum und damit Leiter des Internationalen Sozialwissenschaftlichen Instituts. 1934 grundete er das Okumenische Seminar, Vorlaufer des Institut oecumenique de Bossey, das er auch leitete. Auf seinen Anstoss war 1922 die Europaische Zentralstelle fur kirchliche Hilfsaktionen (Inter-Church Aid) entstanden, die Kirchen in Europa, in der Sowjetunion und im Orient unterstutzte. Er trat gegen den Nationalsozialismus ein und engagierte sich fur judische Fluchtlinge. Marianne Jehle-Wildberger legt nicht nur eine gut recherchierte Biographie des bedeutenden Okumenikers Keller vor, sondern eroffnet zugleich neue Perspektiven zur Geschichte der okumenischen Bewegung. Marianne Jehle-Wildberger, Jahrgang 1937, Historikerin und Lehrerin, Mitautorin der St. Galler Kantonsgeschichte (Kirchengeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert), ist Autorin des im TVZ erschienenen Bandes Das Gewissen sprechen lassen. Die Haltung der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirche des Kantons St. Gallen zum Kirchenkampf, zur Fluchtlingsnot und zur Fluchtlingspolitik 1933-1948.