In November 2018, the Strasbourg Institute’s Prof. Theodor Dieter (Germany) and Visiting Prof. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson (Japan/USA) taught their tenth consecutive seminar on Studying Luther in Wittenberg.
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Invitation to a new seminar offered by the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg Strasbourg, October 2 – 12, 2019 Dear Sisters and Brothers in the member churches of the Lutheran World Federation! The Institute for Ecumenical Research has established a new seminar for Lutheran pastors and advanced students that will be held for the
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A group of Greek Orthodox theologians under the leadership of Rev. Prof. Dr. Christos Filiotis visited the Institute on July 4, 2018.
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“Fundamentalism as an Ecumenical Challenge”—the theme of this year’s Summer Seminar at the Institute—drew more than 50 theologians from around the world and from many different churches to Strasbourg from July 2 to 9, 2018. The seminar took place in the centrally located Protestant Seminary, which made for a very pleasant setting for a rich
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Over 120 representatives of various Orthodox churches and academic institutions gathered from May 21 to 25, 2018, for the Eighth International Conference for Orthodox Theology. Organized by the Theological Faculty of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, it took place under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople.
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Prof. Dr. Karl Christian Felmy, who for many years participated in the LWF dialogue with the Orthodox churches, was honored on May 5, 2018, on the occasion of his 80th birthday with an academic celebration hosted by the Protestant Faculty of Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
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My name is Sebastian Madejski and I have studied Protestant theology in Warsaw, Poland, and in Bonn, Germany. From January to March 2018, I did a traineeship with Prof. Dr. Dieter at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg. It was a very intensive time for me: each day I studied the document “The Apostolicity of
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Every 18 months, the Institute brings together ecumenical experts from different countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, USA) and different churches (Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed, Roman Catholic) in the château Klingenthalin order to discuss both results of the ecumenical dialogues and challenges. The last consultation took place from March 20 to 23, 2018.
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Auf dem Weg zur Gemeinschaft. 50 Jahre internationaler evangelisch-lutherisch/römisch-katholischer Dialog [„On the Way to Fellowship: 50 Years of International Evangelical Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue], eds. André Birmelé und Wolfgang Thönissen (Paderborn and Leipzig: Bonifatius and EVA, 2018), 423 pp. In April 2018 (finally!) this volume appeared which contains the contributions to the 2016 Summer Seminar hosted by the Institute.
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The St. Bernardino Institute of Ecumenical Studies in Venice, which is the ecumenical institute of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Italy, has been closely associated with the Strasbourg Institute for many years now. Every two years it hosts a theological conference between the Venetian and the Strasbourg teams. This encounter is important, as the Italian scholars have hardly
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