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In The Ecumenical Review of March 2012, Christian experts survey the current position of churches throughout the Middle East. According to the editors, past year’s historic events in the Arab world “have highlighted the aspirations to citizens for their dignity and freedom”, yet these same developments “have also raised new and serious challenges for the many Christian communities there.”
Their editorial continues, “Whether in Israel/Palestine or the other Middle Eastern countries, full appreciation of the overarching problems and potentialities requires us to wrestle with the sometimes-checkered biblical legacy and its themes of promised land, nationhood, election and people of God. Also indispensable is some understanding of the complex and often fraught relations among Christian traditions there, and among Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities.”
The Ecumenical Review is published by the World Council of Churches (WCC) in cooperation with Wiley-Blackwell of Oxford. Articles in the March issue arise from a June 2011 consultation in Volos, Greece jointly sponsored by the Volos Theological Faculty and the WCC. Guest editors for the issue are Michel Nseir of the WCC staff and Pantelis Kalaitzidis, director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies.
In addition to contributions by prominent scholars, The Ecumenical Review includes an article by Dr Tarek Mitri, the current minister of information in the government of Lebanon and a former member of the WCC staff in the field of inter-religious dialogue and cooperation.
List of the authors and articles
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/erev.2012.64.issue-1/issuetoc
