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Title: In One Body Through the Cross: The Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity by Robert W. Jenson, Carl E. Braaten ISBN: 0-8028-2298-3 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Summary: No Future--No Future For You
Comment: In seems this is a generational preoccupation, the ecumenical institutional unity of the Christian Church. There have been endless meetings and drafts of papers on just how the Christian Church (or "Churches", if you will) will put aside centuries of differences and join into one mighty throng to witness to the whole world. As I said, this seems to be a generational thing. Those born before the Korean War seem to take this task as the be all and end all for the Christian Church. On the other hand, it may be simply an enthusiasm of those in the ministry. Those in the trenches-the laymen-take it as a positive sign that Christians of all stripes are more and more civil and friendly toward one another. It is this overwhelming desire to see "the mating of the mammoths" that is out of place and ill considered.
As a baby-boomer Lutheran, I have attended more ecumenical gatherings than I care to remember. Most were great. Some absolutely stunk. Most laymen come away from these experiences with love and respect for our "separated" brothers and sisters-yet deep down we come to know just what we are. I never realized how much of a Lutheran I was until I discussed the faith other Christians. In the end, I am not going to change for them nor will they change just to suit me.
Ecumenists love the quote Jesus petition to the Father in the Garden "that they all be one". I hope it is not mean-spirited to point out that Jesus also asked that "this cup pass" from Him. That request was not granted and it seems evident that "may they be as one" was not granted either. Indeed, a close examination of any proposal to unify all the Christianity usually entails several "someones" ceasing to be what makes them what they are. This is why some Churches see ecumenism as theological aggression by other means.
That the various Christian Churches have come to treat one another with generosity and respect is no small accomplishment. That most Lutherans no longer take it as a doctrinal certainty that the Pope is the Antichrist is a vast change from the past. That Lutherans and Catholics see themselves as being on the same side in a hostile world would have been inconceivable not that long ago.
I tend to view the problem of Christian unity through the lens of my own extended family. My family has nearly every Christian expression currently available in America. It has "holy-rollers", Evangelicals, staid mainliners, Catholics and several types of apostates. We get together for holidays and we get along well with each other. A few insults are traded-but ...hey...what do you expect.
I wish them all well. May their houses be in peace and prosper. That doesn't mean we can all live together under the same roof.
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Title: Church Unity and the Papal Office: An Ecumenical Dialogue on John Paul II's Encyclical Ut Unum Sint by Carl E. Braaten, Robert W. Jenson ISBN: 0802848028 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: On Thinking the Human: Resolutions of Difficult Notions by Robert W. Jenson ISBN: 0802821146 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Jews and Christians: People of God by Carl E. Braaten, Robert W. Jenson ISBN: 0802805078 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Ecumenical Future by Carl E. Braaten, Robert W. Jenson ISBN: 0802826717 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, 3) by N. T. Wright ISBN: 0800626796 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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