Focus of Unity: Ultimate and Penultimate Goals of the Christian Movement
Ecumenical myopia?As a participant in the interchurch scene for many years I have become increasingly conscious of a phenomenon which I can best describe as ‘ecumenical myopia’. Myopia means short sightedness, and what I am thinking about is the tendency for ecumenical vision to fall short of its tr...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1997
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 1997, Volume: 50, Issue: 4, Pages: 459-480 |
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Summary: | Ecumenical myopia?As a participant in the interchurch scene for many years I have become increasingly conscious of a phenomenon which I can best describe as ‘ecumenical myopia’. Myopia means short sightedness, and what I am thinking about is the tendency for ecumenical vision to fall short of its true objective: the lines of sight converge to a focus too soon, and from then on — as my schoolboy physics tells me — they cross each other and diverge in different directions into an obscure and unfocussed blur. |
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ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930600049760 |