The Future of Multilateral Ecumenical Dialogue

This article offers an overview of work undertaken in multilateral ecumenical dialogue, as it has been conducted at the international level by the commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches (WCC), to clarify the issues discussed in this dialogue and the methods used. In particular, the article analyzes the statements on unity made at various WCC assemblies. While they demonstrate a certain continuity regarding the key points of church unity they identify, they clearly mark a shift in the overall understanding of how unity is conceived. The second part of the article examines the current ecumenical situation and its importance for this dialogue, to show how Faith and Order has responded and what further progress in multilateral dialogue might look like.     

Justification within Recapitulation: Irenaeus in Ecumenical Dialogue

Justification has a relatively minor place in Irenaeus's thought. He discusses it particularly in his polemics against Gnostic approaches to the Scriptures and to the law. Justification typically serves for Irenaeus within a broader, participatory framework of salvation. When we take these aspects into account, unexpected ecumenical possibilities open up between Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants. One of the most important lessons from Irenaeus's discussion on justification, therefore, is that justification should not be treated as an insulated doctrine. Instead, it is an aspect of participation in Christ's recapitulation and as such serves to uphold and strengthen our deifying union with God in Christ.     

齐文化的特征、旨归与本质--兼论齐、鲁、秦文化之异同

齐文化是先秦时代的东方大国——齐国所创造的文化系统。这一文化系统以广收博采、融合创新为特征,以富国强兵、诏令天下为旨归,以实用主义为本质,与鲁文化与秦文化相较有着自己的鲜明特征。鲁文化是道德的理想主义的文化,秦文化是建构的功利主义的文化,而齐文化是实用主义的文化。然而,齐文化由实用主义流衍为功利主义,复由功利主义流变为享乐主义,致使其在政治上没能完成统一中国的大业,文化上未能由区位文化上升为中原文化的主体。     

Ecumenical Hermeneutics through a Study of Missiological Typologies

This paper focuses on the hermeneutical recognition that happens during the cross‐cultural transmission of the gospel. The dynamics of mission are traced from hermeneutic through communication and the understanding of the Other, to action, and to the realization of gospel in community.