The Kingdom of God and the Transformation of the World

The Call and Role of the Ecumenical Movement

Bibliographic Data

ID21338017
AuthorsJerry Pillay (0000-0001-5188-3550, Federal Council, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume112
Issue2
Pages355-369
Publication date2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review of Mission (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8582 • E-ISSN: 1758-6631
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/irom.12473
OpenAlexW4389134227
LanguageEN
Citations received4

The article explores how pivotal the kingdom of God has been and still is to the identity of the ecumenical movement. The discussion of the biblical vision of the kingdom, which is coming and yet is also present, offers a motif which not only forms the life of the church and gives it hope but also forms the life of the oikoumene , giving hope to all of life. The ensuing discussion shows how, historically, the ecumenical movement has practised its calling of unity and mission as one which offers salvation to all life and to all aspects of life and goes on to outline how the kingdom continues to inspire ecumenical engagement today. Fundamental to this is the realization that the kingdom lays claim not on the church but on the whole world. This turns the ecumenical movement away from self‐service so that the life of the world is shifted, challenged, and transformed through the work and witness of the ecumenical movement. This is especially and urgently needed where the powers, systems, and structures of our world cause injustice, inequity, and catastrophe. In this mission ecumenism reaches its fullest unity, in which all are saved

Aesthetics · Ecumenism · Environmental ethics · Identity (music) · Injustice · Kingdom · Political science · Sociology · Witness · Christian Theology and Mission · Law · Philosophy

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