Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2015.
The present study gives an outline on how bilateral and multilateral dialogues have used the notion of koinonia in relation to ecclesiology with a view to full visible Eucharistic fellowship. It is not so much an inquiry on the relation between modern communion ecclesiology, on the one hand, and scriptural and patristic visions of ecclesial unity, on the other. However, this comparison remains an...
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The following paper was written as a research paper for the course of Ecumenical Theology at the Ecumencial Institute in Bossey during the winter semester of 2013/14. It was then submitted to the “Hochschulpreis des Evangelischen Bundes Württemberg 2013” and honoured with the first prize in October 2014. The paper deals with the recently published convergence document of the World Council of...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2012.
This thesis investigates the possibilities of theological agreement between the Reformed and the Roman Catholic churches on the Eucharist from the Reformed perspective. The first chapter is dedicated to the theology of Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin on the Lord’s Supper. It unveils two aspects: first it shows that although they have different perspectives on the Christ’s Eucharistic presence,...
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This article gives en overview on the lines of separation between the major Christian traditions and how these are linked with the question of Eucharistic fellowship. It further explains the multilateral ecumenical discussion on the issue of the Eucharist as they have been going on in the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches. The author shows, that it is the task of the...
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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...
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