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After this course you will be able to:
- describe, analyze and compare in a phenomenological way the diversity of practices and beliefs in present day world Christianity;
- describe the development of the ecumenical movement and interpret the text of a number of major ecumenical documents;
- analyze forms and possibilities of 'receptive ecumenism';
- reflect academically on the major challenges of lived ecumenism in the third millennium.
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This course on 'Ecumenism in a globalizing world' encourages students to develop an ecumenical perspective on the diversity of practices and beliefs in present day world Christianity. It offers an introduction to the phenomenology of lived Christianity and to the history and ideals of the ecumenical movement and it discusses the major ecumenical challenges in the beginning of the third millennium, such as the rise of Pentecostalism and Evangelism, the shift in the centre of gravity of Christianity toward the global South, the need to develop a spirituality of engagement with the world and its people, and the approach of 'receptive ecumenism' (e.g. in the movement of New Monasticism).
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| Written research paper on an ecumenical case study and oral presentation of this research. |
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