This webinar will mark the publication of the first volume of a three-volume history of ecumenism, in which scholars across continents and disciplines explore the role of individuals and groups, assemblies, documents and programmes, and theologies and practices in the history of ecumenism and the ecumenical movement. The project is directed by Alberto Melloni and edited by Luca Ferracci of the Fondazione per le scienze religiose (FSCIRE), Bologna.

This first volume traces the long-term roots off ecumenism and reconstructs the historical, theological, and political junctures that marked the beginning of a distinctive movement that runs throughout the 19th century and into the heart of the 20th.

When: 19 January 2022, 16:00-17:30 CET

Registration: Register to attend the webinar

Interpretation: simultaneous interpretation available for English-French

Moderated by: Dr Stephen Brown, Editor, The Ecumenical Review

Speakers:

- Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, Acting General Secretary, World Council of Churches

- Pasteure Laurence Mottier, Moderator, Protestant Church of Geneva

- Director Alberto Melloni, secretary of the Foundation for Religious Studies (FSCIRE), Bologna, Italy

- Editor Luca Ferracci, Affiliated researcher at the Foundation for Religious Studies (FSCIRE), Bologna, Italy

- Prof. Dr Michael Quisinsky, Professor for Systematische Theologie, Catholic University of Freiburg

- Prof. Dr Elisabeth Parmentier, Professor of Practical Theology and Dean of the Faculty of theology, University of Geneva

- Archbishop Job of Telmessos, Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches

- Rev. Dr Odair Pedroso Mateus, Director, Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches, Interim Deputy General Secretary, World Council of Churches