Christian self-understanding amid many religions
Relations with people of other faiths impact Christian self-understanding, mission and witness as well as Christians' understanding of other religions.
This project invites the WCC constituency to consider how inter-religious dialogue challenges theology and Christian self-understanding.
It compares findings in Jewish-Christian dialogue with how Christian theology understands the nature and purpose of the church and, through consultations and the Internet, tries to create space for these findings in Christian theology.
In dialogue with people of different faiths, it considers understandings of conversion with a view to producing a code of conduct on religious conversions.
And it studies Christian self-understanding in a religiously plural world.
The project works with the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, the International Council of Christians and Jews, the Bernardin Center at the Catholic Theological Union (USA), the Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding at the Muhlenberg College (USA), and the Centre for Christian-Jewish Understanding (UK), among other speciliazed institutions, as well as with the WCC Faith and Order Commission, the Roman-Catholic Church, the WCC constituency and Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians.
Related documentsChristian self-Understanding in Relation to IslamA summary report of the international intra-Christian consultation Geneva, 18-20 october 2008.
Learning to explore love togetherThe commentary entitled "Learning to explore love together" is part of on-going consultations in which the WCC has engaged its member churches and ecumenical partners since November 2007. Compiled by Christian experts in Christian-Muslim relations, it addresses the churches and offers suggestions on responding to the widely noticed letter "A Common Word" by 138 Muslim leaders in October 2007.
Religious plurality and Christian self-understandingThe question of the theological approach to religious plurality had been on the agenda of the WCC many times; in recent years, it was felt that this difficult and controversial issue needed to be revisited. This document was shared as a background document for discussion and debate at the WCC's 9th assembly in 2006.
Plenary on Christian identity and religious pluralityAddress by the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to a plenary on Christian identity and religious plurality at the WCC's 9th assembly in 2006.
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Peoples of God - A Jewish-Christian Conversation in AsiaHans Ucko - The Jewish and Asian Christian theological perspectives developed in the essays collected here show that these two faith groups have much to learn from each other, and to teach us all, about the experience of being a minority, the meaning of the image of God, the concept of identity as a people of God and the challenge of religious pluralism.
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