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| 1. | Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (Collection Saveurs Gourmandes & Art de Vivre)
Paperback (33 pages) by World Council of Churches (World Council of Churches)
The statement published here marks a major advance in the ecumenical journey. The result of a fifty-year process of study and consultation, this text on baptism, Eucharist and ministry represents the theological convergence that has been achieved, through decades of dialogue, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Over one hundred theologians met in Lima, Peru, in January 1982, and recommended unanimously to transmit this agreed statement - the Lima text - for the common study and official response of the churches.They represented virtually all the major church traditions: Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed, Methodist, United, Disciples, Baptist, Adventist and Pentecostal. The churches' responses to this agreed statement have played a vital part in the ecumenical process of 'reception'. This 2007 printing includes an additional introduction and is issued in observance of the 25th anniversary of the original publication of "Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry".
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| 6. | Together on the Way: Official Report of the Eighth Assembly of the World Council of Churches
Paperback (406 pages) by Zimbabwe) World Council of Churches Assembly 1998 (Harare (World Council of Churches)
Meeting every seven years, the assembly is the highest governing body of the World Council of Churches, to which all member churches are entitled to send delegates. The assembly receives reports on the work of the WCC during the preceding period, sets broad guidelines for the next seven years and elects from its membership a central committee to govern the Council until its next assembly. This volume includes the texts of the major addresses and of documents adopted by the delegates at the Eighth Assembly which was held in Harare in 1998. Also contained are summaries of discussions in plenary sessions and the revised WCC constitution and rules, as well as lists of assembly participants, the new central committee, and WCC member churches and associated councils. The report begins with an introduction to and analysis of this significant ecumenical event.
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| 7. | Directory 2005 (World Council of Churches Yearbook)
Paperback (88 pages) by World Council of Churches (World Council of Churches)
This title is co-published with the Middle East Council of Churches.
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| 9. | Introducing the World Council of Churches (Risk Book Series)
Paperback (185 pages) by Marlin Vanelderen (World Council of Churches)
What is the World Council of Churches? This illustrated introduction answers that question. It explores the WCC's nature as a 'fellowship of churches', the areas and concerns which are the focus of the Council's programmes, the major events of its history, the contribution it has made to Christian thought, and its relations with churches and other organizations. The final chapter asks whether the World Council really matters, and includes discussion of criticisms levelled against it.
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| 10. | The World Council of Churches and Politics
Hardcover (136 pages) by J. A. Emerson Vermaat (University Press of America)
Churches today sometimes resemble political institutions more than religious ones. In particular, major ecumenical organizations like the National Council of Churches (NCC), and the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) are becoming increasingly politicized. To be sure, they do have a long tradition of political pronouncements, but never have their statements been so controversial and so much under attack as they are today. Many people in the pew as well as many outsiders feel that current "church politics" testify to biased political attitudes of a church elite that has stopped taking its critics seriously. With its more than 300 member churches, the WCC supposedly speaks for non-Catholic Christendom. Many in the WCC's member churches, however, are critical of or indifferent to it and if afforded the chance to hear what is pronounced in their name they would, no doubt, raise their voices in strong protest. Many have already done so.
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