God, Morality, and Politics

1979 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
Eugene Carson Blake
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
National Council ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
World Council ◽  
National Council Of Churches

Eugene Carson Blake has in recent years been actively associated with the Christian citizens' movement, Bread for the World. Before retiring as Secretary of the World Council of Churches in 1972, he served both church and society in many leading capacities, as a distinguished pastor, the chief executive officer of his denomination (the United Presbyterian Church), university and seminary trustee, and president of the National Council of Churches. In 1960, he preached a sermon in the Episcopal Cathedral of San Francisco, where the late James A. Pike was Bishop. This sermon, welcomed by the Bishop, led to the establishment of the Consultation on Church Union. In the forefront of the civil rights movement, Blake was jailed, vilified, and denounced as a communist. In 1978, he was made the subject of a biography, Eugene Carson Blake: Prophet With Portfolio, by R. Douglas Brackenridge (Seabury Press). This present essay is a revised version of an address delivered at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, as “The Willson Lecture.”

Spiritual Significance

Margaret Mead ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 167-188
Author(s):  
Elesha J. Coffman
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
National Council ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
National Council Of Churches

When challenged by a magazine editor in 1971 to cite any spiritually significant work she had done, Mead gave a fulsome response. “The list of my writings with spiritual significance is too long to burden your journal,” she wrote, offering just three sample citations: the essay “Cultural Man,” which she wrote for the World Council of Churches collection Man in Community; her introduction to the National Council of Churches volume Christians in a Technological Era; and “Christian Faith and Technical Assistance,” published in Christianity and Crisis in 1955. She continued, “I am at present, as I have been for many years actively engaged in various enterprises which seek to combine religion and science and religion and psychiatry, at various levels from the Committee on the Future of Earl Hall at Columbia University, to the activities of the Episcopal Church, the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches.” She was, by the early 1970s, an established authority on religion. Why did so many people who knew her name not know this aspect of her life?

For God or Country?

Worldview ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-16
Author(s):  
Paul Bock
Keyword(s):  
United Church Of Christ ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
International Body ◽  
National Council Of Churches ◽  
The Voice

When churches speak to their own people and to the nations on matters of international affairs, how much do their pronouncements reflect the political policies of various countries and power blocs? Is the voice of a national or regional church body likely to be very different from that of an international ecclesiastical organization? A single example will, admittedly, yield onlv partial answers, but they may suggest what a fuller studv would disclose.Consider the ways in which churches have dealt with the question of disarmament and arms control. Statements have been made by three representative groups: (1) The Christian Peace Conference centered in Prague. Czechoslovakia: (2) the National Council of Churches in the U.S.A. and one of its member churches, the United Church of Christ: and (3) the World Council of Churches. These are representative church bodies from both sides of the iron curtain and an international body which has member churches in virtually all parts of the world.

Toeing the Line at the Cutting Edge

Worldview ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Richard John Neuhaus
Keyword(s):  
Cutting Edge ◽  
National Council ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
World Council ◽  
Contemporary Religion ◽  
National Council Of Churches

One of the foremost analysts of contemporary religion recently gave vent to his exasperation with people who criticize ecumenical organizations such as the National Council of Churches and World Council of Churches. "Why do you even waste time commenting on those groups? Don't you know that nobody cares about what those relics do? Certainly their pronouncements have nothing to do with what's really happening in the churches." This private expression, it should be noted, comes from one solidly located in the "liberal mainstream" of American Protestantism. Let the record show that he supports these ecumenical agencies wholeheartedly. It is just that he is totally indifferent to them. The simple truth, he says, is that they no longer matter very much.

Resilience and Equality in the Household of God: Peggy Mulambya Kabonde’s Search for Justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 131 (8) ◽  
pp. 339-347
Author(s):  
Jonathan Kangwa
Keyword(s):  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Ordained Ministry ◽  
The World ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
World Council ◽  
Ordination Of Women ◽  
Church Structures ◽  
The Church

The World Council of Churches (WCC) commemorated its 70th anniversary in 2018. Over the years, the WCC has engaged with issues that affect women in the Church and society. It has challenged patriarchy in Church structures; calling for justice, partnership in mission and the ordination of women. The WCC initiated a decade of Churches in solidarity with women (1988 to 1998) to promote the visibility of women in the Church. Using storytelling as a heuristic tool and in the spirit of the WCC’s decade of Churches in solidarity with women, the present paper documents the life and work of the Rev. Dr. Peggy Mulambya Kabonde of the United Church of Zambia (UCZ). Firstly, a brief narrative of her life and work is presented. Secondly, her work and experience in the Church is analyzed in order to engage with the issues affecting women in ordained ministry in Africa and other parts of the world. The paper concludes by proposing a model of ecclesiology that embraces inclusivity and the equality of men and women in the Church.

A Time to Advance

1967 ◽  
Vol os-18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Donald Black ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
World Mission

(The following paper is an expansion of remarks made on the occasion of the retirement of Dr. Floyd Shacklock as Executive Director of the Committee on World Literacy and Christian Literature, Department of the Division of Overseas Ministries of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The original remarks and the outline were prepared by Dr. Donald Black, who serves as Chairman of the Lit-Lit Committee and also the Chairman of the Christian Literature Fund Committee, a special activity related to the Division of World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches. Additional material to fill out the paper has been supplied by the staff of Lit-Lit.)

THE EMERGENCE OF RESISTANCE TO ECUMENISM IN THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (ROC) IN THE POST-PERESTROIKA PERIOD OF RUSSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 74-93
Author(s):  
V.A. LIVTSOV ◽  
◽  
A.V. LEPILIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
International Level ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Emergence Of Resistance

The main purpose of the article is to analyze the emergence of opposition to ecumenism in the Rus-sian Orthodox Church (ROC) in the post-perestroika period of Russia. The article examines the issues of interaction between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the World Council of Churches (WCC), the aspects of opposition to the ecumenist movement in the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet realities. The author comes to the conclusion that in the post-perestroika period, a number of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church were negatively disposed towards ecu-menism and considered this movement a heresy. The issues of this kind caused disagreement not only at the international level, but also within the structure of the ROC itself.

Presbyterian Ecumenism

2019 ◽  
pp. 251-264
Author(s):  
Louis B. Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Biblical Authority ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Federal Council Of Churches

Most Presbyterians possess an ecumenical spirit. They recognize other denominations as parts of the Body of Christ just as surely as their own. They cooperate enthusiastically in service, worship, and witness with Christians in many different denominations. Their reliance on biblical authority and agreement with Christians in other communions on many theological issues have led American Presbyterians to be involved in practically every major ecumenical endeavor. Many Presbyterians have been leaders in these enterprises as well. The Old Light and New Light Presbyterian reconciliation, major revivals in America and Europe, the mergers of denominations and comity arrangements for mission have provided energy and vision for ecumenism. The planting of newer Reformed churches—in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and predominantly Catholic countries in Europe—embodied this ecumenism. Mainstream Presbyterians played an important role in numerous ecumenical organizations including the Evangelical Alliance, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the Federal Council of Churches, the Faith and Order and the Life and Work movements, and the World Council of Churches. Those who left the larger Presbyterian denominations to create new Reformed bodies have likewise engaged in ecumenism. In recent years, however, the extensive formal ecumenical ties have been eclipsed by the extensive ecumenism of local Presbyterian congregations and their individual officers and members.

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