In June the Institute was delighted to welcome as resident scholars Ephraim Radner and Annette Brownlee, a married couple, both Anglican priests and theologians.
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Over the course of the past decade, the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB) has undertaken an internal dialogue with Charismatic members of the church on the topic of baptism. Difficulties arose when a small minority of the Charismatic leadership began rebaptizing persons who had already been baptized as infants; in other
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A 65th birthday is an occasion to look back, but we decided instead to look forward to celebrate our colleague André Birmelé’s 65th birthday on March 14, 2014. He has dedicated a large part of his life to the church and academic theology in the domain of ecumenism. For this reason we invited ten younger
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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
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From Nov. 14 to 16, Prof. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson of the Institute participated in the conference on “Protestantism? Reflections in Advance of the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, 1517–2017” that took place at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, USA. The speakers were drawn from across the Western Christian tradition, both Catholic and Protestant, mainline
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Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Theodor Dieter and Prof. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, the eighth in a series of seminars on the theme “Studying Luther in Wittenberg” took place from November 2–16, 2013. While it was the eighth seminar altogether, this was the fifth one taught by the staff of the Institute in Strasbourg.
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On Monday October 21, the Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue document From Conflict to Communion was formally presented to Pope Francis during a private audience. The Commission on Unity had produced the document as the theological foundation for a common Lutheran-Catholic commemoration of the anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. Theodor Dieter devoted four years to the
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The ecumenical Dombes Group, which has gathered twenty Catholic and twenty Protestant theologians for regular meetings since 1937, started out as a prayer group, searching for ways to give life to the desired unity of the church. In time it became also a group for research and publication. It now meets every summer at the
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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
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„Heilige ohne (konfessionelle) Grenzen. Ökumenische Besinnung auf die große Wolke der Zeugen“ war das Thema des 47. Internationalen Ökumenischen Seminars, zu dem das Institut für Ökumenische Forschung im Juli 2013 nach Strasbourg eingeladen hat. Über 60 Teilnehmer aus 25 Ländern und vielen verschiedenen Kirchen trafen sich, um Referentinnen und Referenten aus unterschiedlichen christlichen Traditionen zu
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