Description: This volume surveys the various theological approaches that Christian denominations bring to the issue of religious pluralism. Writers from eleven Christian traditions discuss the challenges and possibilities raised by religious pluralism.
Description: For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Religion. This text provides a thematic and comparative approach to the study of religion. The focus of individual chapters gives equal weight to both theoretical issues and to practices as they are reflected in the major religions of the world.
Description: At the eighth assembly of the World Council of Churches in Zimbabwe in 1998, the powerful political drama entitled 'A Journey of Hope' was the beginning of a pilgrimage of conversion, commitment, and above all, accompaniment with Africa. The churches and their peoples agreed that the focus on Africa would be one of wholehearted support, including: an emphasis on transformation of Africa's social, political and economic systems in order to create a just society; a search for peace and reconciliation between people and communities; a fight to help contain and overcome the scourge of HIV/AIDS; an emphasis on good governance, ethical values and stewardship; and the rights of African children to hope for a bright future. This book is a story of people who have vowed never again to walk on tiptoe: people who will never again submit to humiliation.
Description: In 1998, the eighth assembly of the World Council of Churches made a special pledge to accompany Africa on a 'Journey of Hope'. The overall aim of the ecumenical focus on Africa is to provide a space in which the churches, together with the national councils of churches, sub-regional fellowships and the All Africa Conference of Churches may become fully involved in Africa's re-awakening. This book records the visit of the general secretary and WCC officers to Kenya and Rwanda in April 2004. It is intended to provide institutional memory of the messages of hope delivered at various venues in both countries, a witness that reached its climax at the national stadium in Kigali on 18 April 2004.
Description: These five statements on mission and evangelism published by the WCC since 1980 provide a picture of the main theses and emphases of ecumenical missiology. Separate introductions indicate clearly the status of the statements in terms of their adoption by a governing or advisory body.
Description: New sixth edition provides a clear overview of four Eastern Christian communions: the Assyrian church; the six Oriental Orthodox churches; the Orthodox church; and the Catholic Eastern churches.
