Text on ecclesiology Called to be the One Church: An invitation to the churches to renew their commitment to the search for unity and to deepen their dialogue
WCC Assemblies have adopted texts offering a vision, or identifying the qualities, of “the unity we seek”.1 In line with these texts the 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre has adopted this text inviting the churches to continue their journey together, as a further step towards full visible unity. The purp...
| Format: | Electronic Article |
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| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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| In: |
The ecumenical review
Year: 2006, Volume: 58, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 112-117 |
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| Summary: | WCC Assemblies have adopted texts offering a vision, or identifying the qualities, of “the unity we seek”.1 In line with these texts the 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre has adopted this text inviting the churches to continue their journey together, as a further step towards full visible unity. The purpose of this Invitation to the Churches is two-fold: (a) to reflect what the churches, at this point on their ecumenical journey, can say together about some important aspects of the Church; and (b) to invite the churches into a renewed conversation - mutually supportive, yet open and searching - about the quality and degree of their fellowship and communion, and about the issues which still divide them.21 |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-6623.2006.tb00589.x |
