Philip Potter and the Momentum of the Ecumenical Movement

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 606-616
Author(s):  
Konrad Raiser
Keyword(s):  
Ecumenical Movement

IV. Reasons for Hope

Horizons ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-337
Author(s):  
Russel Murray
Keyword(s):  
Quarter Century ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Significant Period

A tempting response to this question is: how has it not changed during those years? The previous quarter century was a profoundly significant period for the ecumenical movement. The movement achieved remarkable breakthroughs on historically church-dividing issues, confronted the emergence of new church-dividing issues, fostered an exchange of gifts to help churches overcome their divisions (old and new), and deepened the churches’ commitment to ecumenism, making the ecumenical movement a prophetic sign for our time. I will consider each of these points in turn. First, a word on the significance of Ut Unum Sint (UUS) itself.

The Orthodox Churches and the Ecumenical Movement

1999 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-350
Author(s):  
Anna Marie Aagaard
Keyword(s):  
Ecumenical Movement

Global Visions and Patriotic Sentiments: The Rise and Fall of Ecumenical Reputations, 1890–1922

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 236-247
Author(s):  
Stuart Mews
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Press ◽  
Modern Form

Two names stand out in the wealth of young talent which forged the networks which came together in what has come to be called the ecumenical movement, John R. Mott (1865–1955) and his contemporary Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931). For his fellow American Robert Schneider, Mott was ‘undoubtedly the most famous Protestant ecumenist of the early twentieth century’. To his fellow Swede Bengt Sundkler, Söderblom provided the spark of innovation in 1919–20 which was ‘the beginnings in embryo of what later became the ecumenical movement in its modern form’. The purpose of this paper is to consider their contributions in the period from 1890 to 1922, and the overlap and divergences of their roles in the movements contributing to ecumenical thinking and action. Amongst those disparate though sometimes overlapping strands were the concerns of foreign missions, students and peace. A subsidiary theme is that of mischief-making, sometimes out of ignorance, sometimes by design of the press.

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