Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2015.
Le présent document qui s’intitule «L’Eglise dans l’espace public : cas de l’Eglise Evangélique Presbytérienne et son rôle de prévention de la violence» parle de la crise sociopolitique du Togo et propose des pistes de réflexion de prévention et de sortie. Le premier chapitre introduit le problème et présente le paysage religieux du pays. Le deuxième chapitre présente la...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2015.
Discrimination is one of the most challenging issues that we are faced with in the world today. It impairs human dignity and dehumanizes individuals and particular group of people, violating the order of God’s creation. It has and continues to be a critical issue and a serious challenge for Christian churches today. This thesis aims to link the theme of the liberation for the Burakumin who are...
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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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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2012.
Indigenous spiritualities are a fact in contemporary Andean Christianity, so it is their attempt to hold gospel and culture together. As contextual manners of life, they are disseminated in and out of the churches’ tradition. Their place in the churches has been shifted from a complete aversion to a strategic tolerance of indigenous symbols and ritual practices. Thus, Indigenous spiritualities...
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In: Ekklesia – Oikoumene – Politiki, Festschrift für Metropolit Damaskinos Papandreou, Athen, 2007, p. 257-270
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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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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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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2012.
The study is a critical analysis of John S. Pobee’s theological thoughts on theological education in Africa focusing on social transformation. It argues that that for theological education to become relevant in the African context, it must be informed by the daily existential experiences of African people on the grassroots. By utilising a missiological analytical research methodology, the study...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2014.
Christ prayed that the Church be one “so that the world may believe” (John 17:21). The background of this thesis therefore is the wish to contribute to the efforts being made to realize this prayer of Christ. Our main concern is to find possible ways to address the challenges of diversity and uniformity to move forward in the search of Christian unity. In this context, the study of the...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2009.
This paper refers to the sacraments of Chrismation in the Orthodox Church and Confirmation in the Roman Catholic Church, focusing on the perspective of the bilateral dialogue between the two Churches in the framework of the Ecumenical Movement. Chrismation-Confirmation is one of the three sacraments of Christian Initiation (Baptism, Chrismation-Confirmation and Eucharist). As it is celebrated...
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