Ecumenical Theology Of World Religions

by M Dhavamony

Overview

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 persons

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788876529689
Publisher:	Gregorian & Biblical Press
Publication date:	09/16/2003
Series:	Documenta Missionalia , #29
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 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 theology of the Trinity 3) The Trinity according to Karl Barth and Karl Rahner 4) The presence of the Trinity in other religions 5) The presence of Christ in other religions Chapter Four: Creation of Man as Image of God 1) Karl Barth: Image of God 2) Emil Brunner: Image of God 3) Hendrik Kraemer: Image of God 4) Wolfhart Pannenberg's Universal history 5) Eric Przywara's Catholic Philosophy of Religion 6) William Ernest Hocking: World Faith 7) Paul Tillich: religion as man's ultimate concern 8) A systematic reflection Chapter Five: Revelation and Religion 1) Liberal theology of religions 2) Revelation and Religion according to Karl Barth 3) Emil Brunner's understanding of revelation and religion 4) Hendrik Kraemer's theology of revelation and religion 5) Worfhart Pannenberg: Revelation as history 6) William Temple's theology of revelation 7) Richard Niebuhr's theology of revelation 8) Reinhold Niebuhr: Revelation and Religion 9) General and Special revelation Chapter Six: Are Other Faiths Ways of Salvation? 1) Dialectical Theology 2) The Heilsgeschichte Theology 3) Evangelical Theology 4) Lutheran Theology 5) Asian Christian Theology 6) Ecumenical Perspective of salvation Chapter Seven: Jesus Christ and World Religions 1) The basis of World Council of Churches 2) The doctrine of the Logos 3) The active presence of Christ in other religions 4) Jesus Christ, the Light of the World 5) Jesus Christ, the Life of the World 6) The uniqueness of Jesus Christ 7) The universality of Jesus Christ 8) The Finality of Jesus Christ 9) The absoluteness of Jesus Christ 10) Jesus, the ecumenical consensus 11) Faith in God and Faith in Christ Chapter Eight: The Holy Spirit and World Religions 1) Cosmic pneumatology in the Bible 2) The Greek Orthodox Theology of the Holy Spirit 3) Evangelical theology of the Spirit 4) Lutheran theology of the Holy Spirit 5) Anglican theology of the Holy Spirit 6) Christocentric pneumatology Chapter Nine: The Kingdom of God in World Religions 1) Eschatology in the Protestant Theology 2) The Kingdom of God in the Bible 3) The Kingdom of God and the Church 4) Evangelical theology of the Kingdom of God 5) Lutheran theology of the Kingdom of God 6) An ecumenical vision of the Kingdom of God Chapter Ten: Christians and Other Believers in Prayer at Assisi 1) Prayer in World Religions 2) Pilgrimage in World Religions 3) Fast in World Religions Chapter Eleven: The Bible and Sacred Books of Other Religions 1) Theocentric theology of religions 2) Theocentric Christology of Religions 3) Scandinavian theology of the biblical revelation 4) The Word of God and the word of man Chapter Twelve: Interfaith Cooperation for Liberation 1) A social Bible in the ecumenical movement 2) Christian confession in the Asian revolution 3) Theology of liberation in Latin America 4) Lausanne II on World Evangelization 5) Secularization as a Positive Outgrowth of Christianity 6) Christian Freedom and Liberation in the Asian Context Chapter Thirteen: Syncretism or Inculturation 1) A brief history of syncretism 2) Christian Universalism 3) The Gospel cultural context and religious syncretism 4) Gospel and Culture: a Roman Catholic View 5) Truth and Relativism Bibliography 1) Primary Sources 2) Secondary Sources 3) Supplementary readings