Beyond unity-in-tension : unity, renewal and the community of women and men
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog195
- Publication Date
- c1988
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries
- Call Number
- BX 6 W775 A4 no. 138
- Place of Publication
- Geneva
- Publisher
- World Council of Churches
- Publication Date
- c1988
- Physical Description
- xi, 171 p. : ill. ; 21.5 x 13.5 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "Edited by Thomas F. Best".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "This book explores the relationship of women and men in the church today, and how this affects the search for church unity and for renewal. It includes expert assessments of the WCC's 'Community of Women and Men in the Church' Study, feminist, perspectives on biblical texts of liberation, vivid reports from Christian communities in contexts as diverse as India and Berkeley, California, and incisive accounts of the Orthodox perspective on issues of women and men. Issues of the community of women and men are one focus of Faith and Order's study programme on `The Unity of the Church and Renewal of Human Community'. The book gathers the papers and report from its second (Prague) consultation, with theological reflections on the issues and process of the meeting and an introductory essay placing the meeting in ecumenical perspective". -- back cover.
- Contents : Preface dated Geneva, November 1987 / Gunther Gassmann -- Editor's Introduction / Thomas F. Best -- 1. The Prague Consultation in Ecumenical Perspective -- Beyond Unity-in-Tension. Prague: the Issues and the Experience in Ecumenical Perspective / Thomas F. Best -- 2. The Community Study and Beyond -- The Continuing Significance of the Community of Women and Men in the Church Study: its Mixed Meanings for the Church / Constance F. Parvey -- The Continuing Significance of the Community Study: Sheffield and Beyond / Janet Crawford -- 3. Biblical Reflections -- Liberation, Unity and Equality in Community: a New Testament Case Study / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza -- 4. Contextual Studies: Towards Community -- Renewal in Unity: a Case Study from South India / Padmasani Gallup -- Towards the Community of Women and Men in the Church: the Story of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, California / Sandra Winter Park -- 5. The Orthodox Perspective -- "Men and Women : Equal Partners in the Christian Community": an Orthodox Point of View / Gennadios Limouris -- Some General Reactions and Comments from an Orthodox Point of View / George D. Dragas -- 6. Reports of Working Groups -- 7. Reports and Reflections -- A Personal Theological/Ecclesiological Reflection on the Prague Consultation / Martin Cressey -- Report of the Prague Consultation -- Appendix 1. Participants -- Appendix 2. An Orthodox Statement on the Prague Consultation / George Dragas, Dimitra Koukoura and George Limouris -- Appendix 3. Overview of the Unity and Renewal Study Programme.
- Anglican participants include the Rev. Janet E. Crawford (Anglican Church of the Province of New Zealand) and the Rev. Dr. Padmasani J. Gallup (Church of South India).
- Series
- Faith and order paper ; 138
- Added Entry
- World Council of Churches. Commission on Faith and Order.
- Best, Thomas F.
- Study on the community of women and men in the church
- Crawford, Janet (Janet Estridge), 1943-
- Cressey, Martin H. (Martin Hawley), 1930-2013
- Dragas, George D. (George Dion), 1944-
- Gallup, Padmasani J., 1932-
- Gassmann, Gunther, 1931-2017
- Koukoura, Dimitra A.
- Limouris, Gennadios, Metropolitan of Sassima, 1951-2022
- Park, Sandra Winter
- Parvey, Constance F. (Constance Fern), 1931-2011
- Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, 1938-
- Subjects
- Community of Women and Men in the Church (1981 : Sheffield, Eng.)
- Man (Christian theology)
- Woman (Christian theology)
- Christian union
- Women and Christian union
- Man-woman relationships - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Women in the Church of South India
- Man-woman relationships - Religious aspects - Orthodox Eastern Church
- Man (Christian theology) - Orthodox Eastern Church
- ISBN
- 2-8254-0889-1
- Call Number
- BX 6 W775 A4 no. 138
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries