Remembering the Reformation: Commemorate? Celebrate? Repent?: 7 (Pro Ecclesia) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498240607 ISBN 13: 9781498240604

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

In 1517, Martin Luther set off what has been called, at least since the nineteenth century, the Protestant Reformation. Can Christians of differing traditions commemorate the upcoming 500th anniversary of this event together? How do we understand and assess the Reformation today? What calls for celebration? What calls for repentance? Can the Reformation anniversary be an occasion for greater mutual understanding among Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants? At the 2015 Pro Ecclesia annual conference for clergy and laity, meeting at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, an array of scholars--Catholic and Orthodox, Evangelical Lutheran and American Evangelical as well as Methodist--addressed this topic. The aim of this book is not only to collect these diverse Catholic and Evangelical perspectives but also to provide resources for all Christians, including pastors and scholars, to think and argue about the roads we have taken since 1517--as we also learn to pray with Jesus Christ ""that all may be one"" (John 17:21). Contributors names for back cover: Stanley Hauerwas Bishop Charles Morerod Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Thomas Fitzgerald Michael Root James J. Buckley is Professor of Theology at Loyola University, Maryland. He is a member of the North American Lutheran Catholic dialogue. He and Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt recently published Catholic Theology: An Introduction.   Michael Root is Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America. He was formerly the Director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg, France.

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About the Authors

Michael Root is Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America and Executive Director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology. He was formerly the Director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg, France.

James J. Buckley is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. He has contributed to and edited (with Frederick Bauerschmidt and Trent Pomplun) The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism (2007). He is associate director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498240607
• ISBN 13: 9781498240604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 106
• Editor: Root Michael, Buckley Dr James J