Discerning the Signs of the Times
This article offers a close reading of the six reports from the 4th Assembly of the WCC in Uppsala 1968. The assembly was keenly in tune with the worldwide upheavals of the year. It indeed sought to discern the signs of the time and produced a number of creative suggestions, for example by emphasizi...
| Subtitles: | ‘Behold, I Make All Things New’ 1968 and the Churches |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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| In: |
The ecumenical review
Year: 2018, Volume: 70, Issue: 2, Pages: 341-356 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDJ Ecumenism NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
economic justice
B Secularization B Peace B Gender B Eucharist B Racism B Uppsala 1968 |
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| Summary: | This article offers a close reading of the six reports from the 4th Assembly of the WCC in Uppsala 1968. The assembly was keenly in tune with the worldwide upheavals of the year. It indeed sought to discern the signs of the time and produced a number of creative suggestions, for example by emphasizing the aspect of inclusiveness in catholicity, by stressing the multilateral dimension of mission, and not least by highlighting the churches' inherent responsibility to be agents of justice and peace in a fractured world. Uppsala 1968 proved to name in a prophetic way crucial issues that remain on the agenda for worldwide Christianity: class, economy, isolationism, racism, the arms race. But today the churches are also confronted with new and renewed issues such as post-colonialism, migration, ecology, gender, and a theological grounding of the church-s existence in the world. The article concludes by proposing table fellowship as a possibility for such theological grounding. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12361 |