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The aim is to contextualize the work of the WCC Faith and Order Commission and its Sixth World Conference “Where now for visible unity?” held in Wadi El Natrun, Egypt, in October 2025.
Historically, ecumenical discourses have often privileged Euro-centric frameworks, marginalizing theologies and hermeneutics of communities shaped by colonial histories and indigenous worldviews. The colloquium will invite participants to critically review and challenge the hermeneutical presuppositions of ecumenical theological discourses.
Gathering from diverse ecclesial and cultural contexts, the colloquium will seek to offer a space to reimagine ecumenical theological thinking through the lens of de-colonial reasoning.
The organizers are particularly inviting students and young theologians to participate and to contribute their perspectives on the ongoing process of decolonizing the ecumenical movement and ecumenical theology.
The colloquium will take place in-person in Wittenberg as well as online.
Among the many topics led by the WCC Faith and Order Commission will be the presentation of two key texts: “Call to all Christians: Message of the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order” and “Deepening Unity, Journeying in Love, Restoring Hope: Ecumenical Affirmation.”
