Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Contents of Volume 53 (2018)


Volume 53, Number 1 (Winter 2018)

EDITORIAL:

The Movement for a Global Ethic
Leonard Swidler

ARTICLES:

A Chrismatic Framework for Understanding the Intersection of Baptism and Ministry in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Churches
Nathan Chase

. . . And All Its Paths Are Peace
Gilbert S. Rosenthal

Living-in-Between: Rethinking “Dual Belonging” and a Confucian Christian’s Struggle in Late Ming China
Amy Yu Fu

The “Order of Melchizedek”: Hebrews 7 as a Model for Thinking Ecumenically about Priesthood
Merryl Blair

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy’s Religious Integrative Thinking
Clementina Alexandra Mihăilescu and  Alina Pătru

 

EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES:

The Concept of Unity in the Anglican, Methodist, Lutheran, and Reformed Dialogues with the Roman Catholic Church
Hector Scerri

BOOK REVIEWS

ECUMENICAL RESOURCES


Volume 53, Number 2 (Spring 2018)

ARTICLES:

Religious Discourse, power Relations, and Interreligious Illumination

Paul S. Chung and Peter Watters

Forty Years of Interfaith Experience in the Grater Toronto Area

Helene Ijaz

SPECIAL SECTION ON “WORSHIP IN ECUMENIUCAL CONTEXTS”: NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ECUMENITSTS’ 2017 ANNUAL MEETING:

Worship in Ecumenical Contexts: Inspiration- and Challenge- on the Way to Christian Unity
Thomas F. Best

Worship in Ecumenical Contexts: Impetus to Unity or Focus of Difficulty?
William H. Petersen

The Sacramentality of the Word: An Ecumenical Approach
John F. Baldovin

“Through the Church the Song Goes On”: Ecumenical Implications of Singing Together
Karen B. Westerfield Tucker

Ecumenical Prayer: Notes from the Battleground
Paul Meyendorff

100 years of Worshiping Together: Where Do We Stand? Why Does It Matter?
Gordon W. Lanthrop

EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES:

Whose God? Buber’s “Eternal Thou” as “Absolute Person”
Kenneth P. Kramer


Volume 53, Number 3 (Summer 2018)

ARTICLES:

Jewish-Christian Dialogue from the Underside: Markus Barth’s Correspondence with Michael Wyschogrod (1962–84) and Emil Fackenheim (1965–80)
Mark Lindsay

On the Borderline between Consensus and Reception: The Spirituality of Openness as a Necessary Criterion for Ecumenical Reception
Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Genesis Rabbah—An Opportunity for Interfaith Dialogue: Augustine, Milton, and the Rabbis of Genesis Rabbah in Discourse
Sonya Shetty Cronin

Peaceable Responses to Persecution: The Experience of Eastern Christian Communities in the Middle East
Philip LeMasters

Civic Engagement as an Avenue to Interreligious Cooperation in Religiously Diverse  Communities
Mark Waters 

EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES:

“The Righteousness of God Has Been Manifested”: The Fifth Centenary of the Protestant Reformation, an Occasion of Grace and Reconciliation for the Whole Church
Raniero Cantalamessa

To Become Life-Long Friends: A Sermon Delivered at the Marriage of John Thatamanil and Kate Newman at St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, New York City, on June 30, 2018
Anantanand Rambachan 

Collective Flourishing: A Response to Anantanand Rambachan
Kate Newman with John J. Thatamanil 

Christian-Muslim Perspectives on God as Love and a Loving Community
Christopher Evan Longhurst 

BOOK REVIEW


Volume 53, Number 4 (Fall 2018)

EDITORIAL:

Dialogue: The Latest Mark of Modernity
Leonard Swidler                                                                                                               

ARTICLES:

Reflections in the Waves: What Interreligious Studies Can Learn from the Evolution of Women’s Movements in the U.S.
Rachel S. Mikva

The Use of Luther in the “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification”: Reflections on Hermeneutical Directions for the Future
Mark Ellingsen

Making Way for Comparative Theology in the Liturgy of the Word: In Dialogue with James L. Fredericks
SimonMary Aihiokhai

Christian-Jewish Dialogue in the Monasteries of Jerusalem: An Evolution of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue
Emma O’Donnell Polyakov

Christian Peace Theology and Nonviolence toward the Truth: Internal Critique amid Interfaith Dialogue
Gerald W. Schlabach

 

EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES:

Reflections by Fellows of the King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue
Jessica Sitek

Religious Humanism and Interfaith Cooperation: A Tale of Two Congregations
Jeff Berger

Islamic Religious Teachers as Bridge-Builders in Schools in Austria
Mabrouka Rayachi

Dialogue on Dialogue
Nourah Abdullah M. Alhasawi

Reflections by Participants in the Study of the United States Institute on Religious Pluralism
Rebecca Kratz Mays

Dialoguing about American Religious Pluralism: An Egyptian Response
Yosra ElGendi

American Experiment of Ordered Liberty—A View from the Czech Republic
Roman Míčka

The Way of Looking Makes the Difference
Luiz Síveres

Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism
Alan L. Berger 

BOOK REVIEW