Ecumenical Theology Of World Religions [Paperback]

Ecumenical theology has to do with relationships between several Churches or Christians of various denomination, implyimg knowledge of christian unity and the desire to attain it. For the one Gospel of Jesus Christ which must be preached in dialogue with the world of today presupposes the unity of the Church in faith and love which is meant to be a sign through which the world may believe. In the face of the divisions between the Churches which create a problem in their encounter with world religions which all Churches are bound to try to solve there is need of a comprehensive dialogue with one another in which one another in which the problems of self-understanding and the theological understanding of the religious traditions of manking can be treated for an effective missionary task of the different Churches, Theology must remain conscious of the fact that the revelation of God in Jesus Christ and its proclamation by the Church are directed to all human personsIntroduction 1) General notion of ecumenical theology 2) Ecumenism and Evangelization 3) Ecumenism and World Religions Chapter One: Theology of Religions in the International Missionary Conferences and World Council of Churches Assemblies. A Historical Survey, I 1) The Edinburgh Conference 2) The Jerusalem Conference 3) The Tambaram Conference 4) The Word of God and the Living Faiths of men 5) The New Delhi Assembly 6) The Bangkok Conference 7) The Kandy Statement Chapter Two: Theology of Religions. A Historical Survey, II 1) The Uppsala Assembly 2) Ajaltoun Consultation 3) Addis Ababa Meeting 4) The Lausanne Covenant 5) The Nairobi Assembly 6) The Chiang Mai Consultation 7) The Melbourn Conference 8) The Ecumenical Affirmation 9) The Vancouver Assembly 10) The Stuttgart Consultation 11) The San Antonio Conference 12) The Baar Statement 13) The Canberra Assembly 14) The Salvador Conference Chapter Three: Trinitarian Theology of Religions 1) Orthodox and Lutheran theology of the Trinity 2) Evangelical theolS2