After the Third Assembly

Worldview ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Arthur Moore
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The Third ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pope John Xxiii

To begin to assess the Third Assembly of the-World Council of Churches, which met in New Delhi, India, November 18-December 5, it is necessary to keep firmly fixed in mind the' intended function of such an Assembly and, even more importantly, what is not its function.This cautionary advice, normally the most threadbare of clichés, gains its validity from the present atmosphere surrounding the subject of Christianity. Spurred on by a number of factors, including the attitude of Pope John XXIII; unity has become a glamorous and bewitching, albeit extremely vague, concept to the general public and to the popular press. Unknown and dramatic events are constantly being anticipated.

United and Uniting Churches

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Haire
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
World Council ◽  
History Of

United and uniting churches have made a very significant contribution to the ecumenical movement. In seeking to assess that contribution, the chapter first defines what these churches are, considers the different types of union that have been created, examines the characteristics of these churches, and looks at the theological rationale for them. It goes on to trace the history of their formation from the beginning of the nineteenth century, and particularly during the years leading up to and following the Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches at New Delhi in 1961, under the influence of Lesslie Newbigin. Giving a theological assessment, it emphasizes that the existence of these churches, despite difficulties, provides places where the final unity of Christ’s one body is most clearly foreshadowed. They will always present proleptic visions of that goal.

The World Council of Churches and Its Vancouver Theme: “Jesus Christ the Life of the World” in Historical Perspective

1983 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-52
Author(s):  
George Huntston Williams
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Sufficient Reason ◽  
Third Century ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Technical Language ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
World Council

In reference to triadological and christological inaccuracies of a nevertheless very important regional synod of Antioch of 268 that definitively condemned and dispossessed Antioch's bishop, Paul of Samosata, St. Athanasius wrote: “Yes, surely every council has a sufficient reason for its own language” (De synodis 45). The Father of triadological orthodoxy indeed changed some of his own technical language in the course of many synods during the fourth century. The creed called liturgically that of Nicaea (325)—which, since the scholarship of the Lutheran Pietist Johann Benedickt Carpzov, Sr., has been called the Niceno-Contstantinopolitan Creed—was ascribed to Constantinople in 381, as a clarification of that at Nicaea, by two readers purportedly reciting the acts of these two councils at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. What is remarkable about Athanasius—referring in the middle third of the fourth century to a synod in the last third of the third century—and about the Fathers of 451—referring back to two earlier ecumenical councils—is that they purported to be expounding an unchanging truth revealed in the Septuagint and the New Testament, once for all delivered (Jude 3), that had simply been made clearer by generations of liturgical practice and theological scrutiny, privately and in synod.

The Missionary Structure of the Congregation

1962 ◽  
Vol 13 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Keyword(s):  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Introductory Material ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Subject ◽  
World Mission

Because of the importance and timeliness of the subject, and because of the competence of the introductory material itself, we reproduce here for wider circulation a paper prepared by the Working Committee of the Department on Studies in Evangelism of the World Council of Churches. Dr. Hans Margull is Secretary of the Department of Evangelism, Division of World Mission and Evangelism. This paper is reproduced, with permission, from CONCEPT, Issue II (July 1962), published by the World Council of Churches, 17 route de Malagnou, Geneva, Switzerland. – Editor.

Rabbi in Nairobi

Worldview ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-25
Author(s):  
Arnold Jacob Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
New Haven ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Third World

I am the only Jew ever invited by the World Council of Churches to an Assembly. With that invitation I attended the latest Assembly, which was held in Nairobi at the end of 1975. For three long weeks I listened, talked to hundreds of delegates, was interviewed on television, lobbied shyly and cautiously for my people, and ate only vegetables and fruit. I found some Christians who had risked their very lives for Jews and open anti-Semites in priestly garb, learned churchmen and ignorant bigots. The Third World was the Assembly's scene and furnished many of its principal actors, but the script could have been as well produced in New Haven or Chicago. There were passionate (and demagogic) speeches aplenty, but the voting was always moderate and the Assembly usually acquiescent. I myself was surrounded by friends and supporters, but I felt very much alone.

Who Is the Subject of Mission? The Need to Decolonize Mission From the Perspective of “the Margins”

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-139
Author(s):  
Anton Knuth
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Missio Dei ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Impact Model ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Triune God ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Subject

The critique of mission history often involves perpetuating the overestimated impact of the missionaries from opposite sides. It was not so much the missionaries who mattered, but what mattered more was whether the people were responding to the message or not. Today we see the translating function of the missionaries in a clearer way and the people’s reception as the crucial factor in the process of modern Christianization. The World Council of Churches in its declaration “Together Towards Life” (2013) separates mission from its entanglement with colonialism as a mission from the margins by grounding it in the triune God (missio Dei), but it seems to overlook the contributing factor of the people as the human subject of the Christianization process. Instead of following a simple input-impact model, we have to acknowledge more those who were adapting themselves to the Christian faith from within their own context.

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