The Ecumenical Review articles

Recent articles from The Ecumenical Review

The quarterly of the World Council of Churches.(Editorial)
March 1, 2009... Guest Editorial The year 2009 marks the 75th anniversary of the Confessional Synod of Barmen and its Theological Declaration, by which representatives of the Confessing Church in Germany rejected the incursions of the Nazi state into church life. To commemorate the anniversary, this issue...

Barmen and the ecumenical movement.(Free Synod of Barmen of May 1934)(Report)
March 1, 2009... The Free Synod of Barmen of May 1934 and its Theological Declaration constituted, from the very beginning, an ecumenical event. This was obviously so on the German level, bringing together as it did so many from the regional and confessional diversity of the "German Evangelical Church". But...

Barmen, the ecumenical movement, and the Jews: the missing thesis.(Barmen Declaration)(Report)
March 1, 2009... The silence about the Jews at Barmen is often portrayed as the silence before the storm. Barmen took place before the Nuremberg laws, before Kristallnacht, before those historical markers that we see as turning points in the intensification of Jewish persecution. The focus of Protestant...

A message "to all people" the missionary task of Protestant churches in Europe--in the light of Barmen's sixth thesis.(Report)
March 1, 2009... The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria is in many respects typical of those that belong to the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe, especially in the area of southeast Europe. Since the 1970s our church has been experiencing a slow but steady decline in...

Confessing the Triune God in a globalized era.(Report)
March 1, 2009... I Confessing has always being at the heart of the Lutheran tradition. During the 20th century Dietrich Bonhoeffer from the left, and Hermann Sasse from the right, revived the notion of status confessionis in the midst of the Nazi onslaught in Germany. While participating in theological...