Abstract/Sommario: The A. focuses on the 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in February 2006, and she poses the classic question: What are the limits to diversity? When is diversity something to be celebrated and when does it become 'church-dividing' and therefore a stumbling block to unity? The A. concludes that we are at something of a loss to know how to fulfil an ecumenical vocation in a culture in which the church is in (numerical) decline, in which there is little or no energy ...; [Leggi tutto...]
The A. focuses on the 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in February 2006, and she poses the classic question: What are the limits to diversity? When is diversity something to be celebrated and when does it become 'church-dividing' and therefore a stumbling block to unity? The A. concludes that we are at something of a loss to know how to fulfil an ecumenical vocation in a culture in which the church is in (numerical) decline, in which there is little or no energy for organic union and in which the churches are as much internally devided as outwardly