Adventist Interchurch Relations
A Study in Ecumenics
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Beschreibung
What kinds of unity do Christians aim at? – Here is an unusual perspective
This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of Seventhday Adventist interchurch relations – a 20-million member body whose ecumenical stance has so far been underresearched. For the sake of interpreting denominational involvement and reservations in Adventism as well as beyond, the study develops a new academic approach to ecumenism based on Relational Models Theory, a comprehensive social science paradigm of interpreting human relationships. The resulting typology of ecumenical interactions and the historical case study of Adventism suggest that such a relational interpretation of ecumenical interaction sheds light on many of the unresolved issues in ecumenics – such as divergent concepts of unity, difficulties in recognition processes, and the permanence of denominationalism.
Autor*in
Stefan Höschele
Stefan Höschele is Professor of Systematic Theology & Adventist Studies at Theologische Hochschule Friedensau, Germany. He served in Algeria (1993–94) and Tanzania (1997–2003) and has taught at Friedensau since 2003.
Themen in »Adventist Interchurch Relations«
Ecumenism Seventh-day Adventists Interchurch Relations Relational Models Theory Adventism Ecumenical interactions Denominationalism