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48th International Ecumenical Seminar, Strasbourg, July 2-9, 2014 Members of the historic Christian churches are often baffled by the new face of Christianity springing up all around them. Entirely independent congregations meeting in warehouses suddenly have ten times the weekly attendance of the long-established parishes that meet in beautiful old churches. The secularization of Europe […]

During the last week of January, the Institute hosted the second meeting of the Trilateral Dialogue between the Lutheran World Federation, the Mennonite World Conference, and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (Roman Catholic). The purpose of the trialogue—only the second three-way conversation in ecumenical history!—is to discuss baptism. This itself is an outgrowth

Non-denominational and Trans-confessional Movements July 2 – 9, 2014, in Strasbourg, France Over the last hundred years, innumerable new Christian congregations, churches, and movements have come into being throughout the world. Widely divergent in size and character, they exist both in and outside of the historic churches. As a result of globalization and worldwide migration,

André Birmelé, L’horizon de la grâce: La foi chrétienne [The Horizon of Grace: The Christian Faith] (Paris and Lyon: Cerf and Olivétan, 2013), 508 pp. To bring to the attention of a large public in only 500 pages the fundamental convictions of the Christian faith: that was the initial request. This book endeavors to take

The Institute invited seven Slovak doctoral students—four Lutheran, two Roman Catholic, and one Old Catholic—along with Prof. Dr. L’ubomir Batka from the Lutheran faculty in Bratislava to participate in an intensive ecumenical seminar in Strasbourg from June 23 to 30. The Lutheran and the Catholic church in Slovakia have have few contacts with each other