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Baptism into the body of Christ : an exploration of its ecumenical implications

Heller, Dagmar

This article takes its starting point from the fact, that among the churches the often quoted notion of “baptism as bond of unity” is still questioned. Especially from those churches which practice believers’ baptism there are doubts, whether we can talk about one baptism. And from the Orthodox churches this notion is questioned, because their requirements for unity are going beyond just...

Wozu Ökumene? : Gedanken zur Zielbestimmung der Ökumene

Heller, Dagmar

In: Ekklesia – Oikoumene – Politiki, Festschrift für Metropolit Damaskinos Papandreou, Athen, 2007, p. 257-270

Why Ecumenism? Reflections on the Objectives of Ecumenism by Dagmar Heller During the last decades ecumenism is more and more questioned, because each of the different Christian traditions is disappointed that the respective others did not really change in a way, which would enable Eucharistic sharing. The question is, therefore, whether the objectives and aims have been too high or even wrong....