RT Article
T1 “Pray Aggressively for a Higher Goal—The Unification of All Christianity”: U.S. Catholic Charismatics and Their Ecumenical Relationships in the Late 1960s and 1970s
JF Religions
VO 12
IS 5
A1 Ciciliot, Valentina
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1760774766
AB In July 1977, 50,000 Christians from different backgrounds and traditions converged on Kansas City to participate in the Conference on Charismatic Renewal in the Christian Churches. Catholic charismatics played a key role in its organization, relying on all their ecumenical contacts built since the origins of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) in 1967 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh (PA). If the Kansas City conference represented the zenith of a shared unified vision for all charismatic Christianity, it also showed the emergence of the crisis which affected Catholic charismatic communities and their connection with Rome. This paper will explore U.S. Catholic charismatics’ relationships with other Christian denominations and groups in the initial development of the CCR, particularly in structuring Catholic charismatic communities, and their ecumenical perspectives in the tension between needs for legitimization (by the Vatican) and needs for self-expression.
K1 American Catholicism
K1 Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR)
K1 Charismatic Movement
K1 Kansas City conference
K1 Shepherding movement
K1 Ecumenism
DO 10.3390/rel12050353