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A Visible Unity

Cecil Robeck and the Work of Ecumenism

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A Visible Unity

Cecil Robeck and the Work of Ecumenism

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The work of uniting churches is slow, challenging, and multifaceted; and it changes in each generation and location. In this book, Josiah Baker studies the efforts of believers towards reconciliation as something significant for how we understand the church. He offers a theology for laborers, people for whom unity is not only an idea but a calling and sure hope.
A Visible Unity is a study in systematic theology on the relation of ecumenical methodology to ecclesiological convergence, how acting together results in the churches being together. Ecumenical work informs ecclesiology because it involves the actions of Christians together in accordance with their shared views of the church. Whenever this work changes, the partnering churches change their relations and further resolve their divisions.
Baker studies ecclesiology by telling stories about a person—the Pentecostal ecumenist Cecil Robeck—for Robeck’s decades of leadership in American and global ecumenical settings. By narrating his activities and analyzing his thought, the book offers a window into the interrelation of different portions of the ecumenical movement and how the movement has changed over the years. Baker compiles archival materials and personal interviews to tell stories about ecumenism never before published.

Table of Contents

1Robeck’s Ecclesiology Amidst Ecumenical and Pentecostal Conversations
2Reconciling Memories of American Pentecostal Race Relations
3The Push to Expand the World Council of Churches
4Bilateral Dialogues as a Communal Practice of Discernment
5Patristic Roots and Charismatic Controversies of Spiritual Ecumenism
6Testifying to Christ within Christian Forums

Product details

Published Sep 16 2024
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 278
ISBN 9781978717206
Imprint Fortress Academic
Illustrations 2 BW Illustrations
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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