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Linked to a WCC assembly or world conference, a GETI brings together younger and emerging theologians from around the world for a two-part programme: an initial online phase followed by a residential phase at the location of the meeting. The first GETI was held in 2013 at the WCC 10th Assembly in Busan, Republic of Korea.
The intention is to offer ecumenical leadership formation, theological learning, and intergenerational dialogue with leaders of the ecumenical movement.
The issue of The Ecumenical Review is made up of a selection of the final academic papers by participants at the 2022 GETI, which brought together about 100 younger and emerging theologians for an online phase of four weeks followed by two weeks in person in Karlsruhe.
“The articles offer different perspectives on the 2022 GETI theme “Christ's Love (Re)moves Borders” and testify to the authors’ creativity and the breadth and depth of their interests,” said the editor of The Ecumenical Review, Dr Stephen G. Brown. “The issues they raise will accompany the ecumenical movement in the years ahead.”
In his editorial that opens the issue, Brown recalls how education and formation have long been concerns of the modern ecumenical movement.
This year, he notes, marks the 90th anniversary of the first ecumenical seminar held in Geneva under the auspices of the Life and Work movement, one of the movements that went on to form the WCC in 1948.
The 10-day seminar gathered 35 students from different church traditions and studied issues such as Christian perspectives on church and state, and the Orthodox contribution to the ecumenical movement.
The Ecumenical Review is published by Wiley on behalf of the WCC.
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Open Access articles in the latest issue:
Linnea Helgesson: What Does Queer Have to Do with Ecumenism?: Identity, Ecumenism, and Queer Theory
See also the WCC publication on GETI 2022 (free download):
Kuzipa Nalwamba and Benjamin Simon, eds, Christ’s Love (Re)moves Borders: Reflections from GETI 2022
