Overview
The issue central to this study can be considered one of the most pressing facing the World Council of Churches today and in the decades to come, and is much greater than that which confronted the International Mission Council in the years 1910 to1938. The question answered in this study is: what significance can the theology of religions, as it developed between 1910 (Edinburgh) and 1938 (Tambaram), have for present-day endeavours to develop a more common understanding and vision within the ecumenical movement as regards the theological problem of religious plurality? This significance becomes clear in the conclusions and suggestions in the final chapter. One of these conclusions is that classic Trinitarian theology and Pneumatology will be incapable of drawing the theology of religions out of the present impasse as long as traditional Christological models continue to exist within them. A commemoration of the Edinburgh meeting will undoubtedly be organized in 2010; and in view of this commemoration Dr van Lin suggests considering the possibility of starting a process of reflection on the World Council of Churches' theology of religions, similar to those on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, and Towards the Common Expression of the Apostolic Faith Today. Given the fact that the study of religious plurality shakes the ecumenical movement to its foundations, within the foreseeable futures serious thought has to be given to placing the study of the theology of religions on the agenda of Faith and Order within the World Council of Churches.
Full Product Details
Author: Jan Lin
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume: 36
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.671kg
ISBN: 9789042011830
ISBN 10: 9042011831
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 01 January 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
I commend to all ecumenical church leaders as well as theologians of every communion a close study of the conclusions and suggestions which van Lin sets out. Busy bishops and over-stretched administrators may find they have no time to read the book entirely but Jan van Lin gives a brilliant series of one or two-line propositions that could change the direction of the ecumenical thinking in the twenty-first century. - Kenneth Cracknell
Author Information
Dr. Jan van Lin (1939) was research secretary of the MISSIO-Netherlands, chairman of the Section Interreligious Encounter of the Council of Churches in the Netherlands, and director of the Nijmegen Institute for Missiology, Centre for the study of non-Western Christianity and promoting north-south dialogue.
