Witnessing Together - Who, What and to Whom? The Concept of Witness in Together Towards Life and The Church: Towards a Common Vision

‘Witness' belongs to the central vocabulary of contemporary ecumenism. Despite its ecumenically significant role the concept has not been defined in ecumenical dialogues, neither analysed in academic research. Already a rough mapping of dialogue documents shows that the concept is used in vario...

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主要作者: Heikkilä, Ida 1986- (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Brill [2019]
In: Ecclesiology
Year: 2019, 卷: 15, 发布: 3, Pages: 261-282
IxTheo Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDJ Ecumenism
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Ökumenischer Rat der Kirchen Kommission für Glauben und Kirchenverfassung The Church
B ‘The Church: Towards a Common Vision'
B Ecumenism
B Witness
B ‘Together towards Life'
B 宣教
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总结:‘Witness' belongs to the central vocabulary of contemporary ecumenism. Despite its ecumenically significant role the concept has not been defined in ecumenical dialogues, neither analysed in academic research. Already a rough mapping of dialogue documents shows that the concept is used in various ways and contexts but not in a coherent or conscious way. This article studies the meaning of ‘witness' in two ecumenical documents issued by the World Council of Churches, ‘Together towards Life. Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes' (2012) and ‘The Church: Towards a Common Vision' (2013). Both documents see witness as the characteristically Christian way of participating in the mission of the Triune God but give it different roles in the life of the church.
ISSN:1745-5316
Contains:Enthalten in: Ecclesiology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455316-01503003