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The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies is an unparalleled compendium of ecumenical history, information and reflection. With essay contributions by nearly fifty experts in their various fields, and edited by two leading international scholars, the Handbook is a major resource for all who are involved or interested in ecumenical work for reconciliation between Christians and for the unity of the Church. Its six main sections consider, respectively, the different phases of the history of the ecumenical movement from the mid-nineteenth century to the present; the ways in which leading Christian churches and traditions, Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, and Pentecostal, have engaged with and contributed to the movement; the achievements of ecumenical dialogue in key areas of Christian doctrine, such as Christology and ecclesiology, baptism, Eucharist and ministry, morals and mission, and the issues that remain outstanding; various ecumenical agencies and instruments, such as covenants and dialogues, the World Council of Churches, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Global Christian Forum; the progress and difficulties of ecumenism in different countries, areas and continents of the world, the UK and the USA, Africa, Asia, South America, Europe, and the Middle East, ; and finally two all-important questions are considered by scholars from various traditions: what would Christian unity look like and what is the best method for seeking it? This is a remarkably comprehensive account and assessment of one of the most outstanding features of Christian history, namely the modern ecumenical movement.

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Geoffrey Wainwright and Paul McPartlan have assembled a massively informative collection of essays, a rich resource for further study, and a testament to the extraordinary growth in unity which, in just 100 years, has transformed the life of the Churches. * Nicholas Sagovsky, The Tablet *

This book, edited by two British scholars who have long held prestigious academic posts in America, gives an excellent account of the search, to date, for Christian unity across the world ... We should be enormously grateful to the contributors, and, in particular, to the editors - for one of whom, the late Geoffrey Wainwright, this compendium will stand as the final, richly fruitful statement of participation and hope in the ecumenical process. * David Carter, Ecumenical Trends * Geoffrey Wainwright and Paul McPartlan have assembled a massively informative collection of essays, a rich resource for further study, and a testament to the extraordinary growth in unity which, in just 100 years, has transformed the life of the Churches. * Nicholas Sagovsky, The Tablet *

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DR Geoffrey Wainwright was Cushman Professor Emeritus of Christian Theology in the Divinity School of Duke University. Paul McPartlan is Carl J. Peter Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecumenism at the Catholic University of America.

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