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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.
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.
"Irreplaceable as a reference to where Catholic theology is at any
given moment, Concilium maps the state of the most pressing
questions with solid contributions from leading theologians and
cutting edge voices. Each volume addresses major issues in dialogue
with wider public discourses, regularly engaging perspectives from
the religions of the world. For volumes of substance, breadth and
insight, Concilium provides a most impressive response to the most
important issues in theology today." Jeannine Hill Fletcher,
Fordham University
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.
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