The year 2017 is an invitation to celebrate. At all levels of church life and in countless countries the anniversary of the 16th century Reformation will be commemorated. But that always poses the question of what exactly is to be celebrated in a situation unlike any previous Reformation centenary.
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Zum achten Mal hielten die Professoren Dieter und Wilson vom Institut für Ökumenische Forschung im November das zweiwöchige Seminar „Studying Luther in Wittenberg“. Zwanzig Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer aus Kamerun, Äthiopien, Gambia, Indien, Indonesien, Kenia, Madagaskar, Papua Neuguinea, den Philippinen, Polen, Rwanda, Südafrika, Taiwan, Tansania, den Vereinigten Staaten und Zimbabwe nahmen daran teil.
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For the eighth year running, Profs. Dieter and Wilson of the Institute taught the two-week Studying Luther in Wittenberg seminar this November. They were joined by twenty participants coming from Cameroon, Ethiopia, the Gambia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, South Africa, Taiwan, Tanzania, the United States, and Zimbabwe.
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In September the very first gathering of the new International Lutheran-Pentecostal dialogue took place at Asia Pacific Theological Seminary in Baguio City in the Philippines, with the Institute’s adjunct professor Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, author of A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans, serving as consultant. Although this was the first formal meeting, the dialogue has
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Im September 2016 fand das erste Treffen des neuen Internationalen lutherisch/pentekostalen Dialogs im Asia Pacific Theological Seminary in Baguio City in den Philippinen statt. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Assistenzprofessorin des Instituts, und Verfasserin von A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans hat an diesem Dialog als Beraterin teilgenommen. Obwohl es sich um die erste formelle Sitzung
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Vom 13. – 16. September trafen sich 20 lutherische Theologinnen und Theologen im Schloss Klingenthal/Elsass zu einem Kolloquium über die Frage der lutherischen Identität.
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Twenty Lutheran theologians gathered at the Château Klingenthal outside of Strasbourg in mid-September for a colloquium on questions of Lutheran identity. The Institute is planning to a release a series of „theses“ on Lutheran identity in 2017 as a contribution to the Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation, which will take place in Windhoek, Namibia,
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Das Institut freut sich, das neue Buch von adjunct professor Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson ankündigen zu können: Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans. Die Vorgeschichte des Buches begann, als Wilson 2008 an einer Tagung des „Proto-Dialogs“ zwischen Lutheranern und Pentekostalen in Zürich teilnahm. Das Institut für Ökumenische Forschung hat diesen Dialog sechs Jahre lang geführt.
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The Institute is pleased to announce the publication of a new book by one of the staff: A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans by adjunct professor Sarah Hinlicky Wilson. The book’s prehistory began when Wilson participated in one of the meetings of the “proto-dialogue” between Lutherans and Pentecostals in Zürich in 2008. The Institute
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Fifty years ago, at a meeting of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) which took place at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, a commission was formed to foster the relationship between the the two churches. With that began half a century of international Lutheran-Catholic dialogue that
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