Kirchengemeinschaft als produktiver Streit

Genese, systematisch-theologische Reflexion und Programm der Leuenberger Konkordie

by Jan-Philipp Behr

Book cover: Kirchengemeinschaft als produktiver Streit

Extent: 420 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Arbeiten zur Systematischen Theologie

Series volume number: 16

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(October 2020)

ISBN: 9783374066827

Price: $124.00

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The Leuenberg Agreement marks a milestone in the 20th century ecumenical movement: It declares church communion among churches of different confessions based on their common understanding of the Gospel. Behr traces the agreement’s history of development and its interpretation by different theologians. He concludes that the agreement calls the assenting churches to continue to be churches with their own doctrinal interests. The common understanding of the Gospel demands for ongoing theological dispute about the respective doctrinal positions. Church communion is not established by evening out the differences between the churches and their particular theologies, but it is implemented by each church introducing their confessional interests to the community.

  • By (author) Jan-Philipp Behr