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- Brockway, Allan R.
New religious movements and the churches : report and papers of a consultation sponsored by the Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches, Free University, Amsterdam, September 1986
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- Publication Date
- 1987
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BL 80.2 N48 1987
- Place
- Geneva
- Publisher
- World Council of Churches
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Physical_Description
- xix, 200 p. ; 21.5 x 13.5 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "Edited by Allan R. Brockway and J. Paul Rajashekar".
- "The new religious movements 'may be constructive or destructive, can lead to a new freedom or new enslavement, can depersonalize individuals or reveal their fuller human potential, can depend on religious faith or on new rituals equivalent to magic and the occult, can reclaim the drug addict and encourage virtuous lives or exhibit immoral and demonic features'. But if we are to follow the way of Jesus, that of 'barrier-breaking and not barrier-building', these movements must challenge us to dialogue -- a dialogue that does not exclude criticism. These and related issues were discussed at a consultation jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation. The book brings together the papers presented at the consultation and its findings and recommendations". -- back cover.
- Contents: Preface / Allan R. Brockway and J. Paul Rajashekar -- Introduction / J. Paul Rajashekar -- Part I: Understanding New Religious Movements -- A Global Phenomenon / Harold Turner -- Contemporary New Religions in the West / Reinhart Hummel -- Contemporary New Religious Situation in Japan / Shinji Kanai -- Part II: Some Aspects of New Religious Movements -- The World-view/Cosmology of the New Religious Movements / Johannes Aagaard -- The Emergence of a New Religosity in the Western World / Jean-Francois Mayer -- Bringing Them In: Some Observations on Methods of Recruitment Employed by New Religious Movements / Eileen Barker -- A Response / Rudiger Hauth -- Religious Liberty and Socio-political Values: Legal Threats to Conversion in the United States / Dean M. Kelley -- Part III: Responding to New Religious Movements -- Churches' Response to Innovative Religious Movements of the Past / Reender Kranenborg -- A Response / Friday M. Mbon -- Response of the Churches to New Religious Movements: a Report from North America / Diana L. Eck -- Dialogue with New Religious Movements ? / Kenneth Cracknell -- Appendices -- Summary Statement and Recommendations -- Sects or New Religious Movements: Pastoral Challenge -- List of Participants -- Contributors.
- OTCH Note: Participants include Canadian Anglican the Rev. James A.J. Cowan (p. [198]).
- Series
- Oikoumene
- Added Entry
- Brockway, Allan R.
- Rajashekar, J. Paul William
- Lutheran World Federation
- World Council of Churches
- Aagaard, Johannes M.
- Barker, Eileen (Eileen Vartan), 1938-
- Cracknell, Kenneth R., 1935-
- Eck, Diana L.
- Hauth, Rudiger
- Hummel, Reinhart
- Kanai, Shinji
- Kelley, Dean M.
- Kranenborg, Reender
- Mayer, Jean-Francois
- Mbon, Friday M.
- Turner, Philip W. (Philip Williams), 1935-
- ISBN
- 2-8254-0890-5
- Call Number
- BL 80.2 N48 1987
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)