Breakthrough : the emergence of the ecumenical tradition
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- Author
- Bilheimer, Robert S., 1917-2006
- Publication Date
- c1989
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BX 8.2 B44 1989
- Place of Publication
- Grand Rapids MI
- Publisher
- Eerdmans
- Publication Date
- c1989
- Physical Description
- x, 235 p. : ill. ; 23 x 15.3 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "[By] Robert S. Bilheimer".
- "Copyright 1989 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. First published 1989 jointly with WCC Publications". -- verso of t.-p.
- Includes index
- "The ecumenical movement has a memory, and this book has been written to contribute to it. It is not likely that the history of events and institutions which constituted the movement will be forgotten, for they are all well documented. Mine is an account of what the early ecumenical movement believed in, what it stood for, and how it understood the times in which it lived. The story is told in the first person, because I was there, believed in it, and felt called to serve it throughout my ministry. A chief purpose in writing has been to make materials accessible. Many of them are contained in fugitive pamphlets, dull documents, drier minutes of meetings, and not very exciting biographies". -- Preface, p. ix.
- Contents: Dedication -- Preface -- [Part] I: Foreunners -- Ferment -- Focus -- [Part] II: The End of Christendom: Ruin and Covenant -- The End of Christendom: Covenant -- The Covenant: Stress and Growth -- Interlude: My Role -- [Part] III: Christ the Lord: Lordship, Unity, and Witness -- The Lordship of Christ over the Church and the World -- Unity: To Search and Proclaim -- Witness -- [Part] IV: A People Amid the Peoples -- Service: From the Rich to the Devastated, with Dignity -- Peace and the World of Nations -- Church, Society, and Rapid Social Change -- The Sexes: Cooperation Between Men and Women -- The Races -- Conclusion -- The Emerging Ecumenical Tradition -- Official Ecumenical Corpus -- Index.
- Author is "an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), [who] worked for the World Council of Churches from 1948 to 1963, and for the next ten years he served as executive director of The Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research". -- back cover.
- Added Entry
- World Council of Churches
- Subjects
- Christian union - 20th century - History
- Ecumenical movement - 20th century - History
- World Council of Churches - History - 20th century
- World Council of Churches - History - Sources
- Bilheimer, Robert S., 1917-2006
- Church and the world - 20th century
- Church and development - Christianity
- Christianity and international affairs - 20th century
- World Council of Churches. Commission of the Churches on International Affairs - History
- Church and social problems
- Man-woman relationships - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Racism - Religious aspects - Christianity
- ISBN
- 0-8028-0296-6 (Eerdmans)
- 2-8254-0955-3
- Call Number
- BX 8.2 B44 1989
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)