A Short Dialogue on Ecumenism

Note: The text below was written in response to questions addressed to me over a year ago, by Rev. Dorin Druhora (now Rev. Dr. Druhora), from Los Angeles, US, while he was doing his doctoral research on Evangelical-Orthodox relations in the USA. In the mean time he has successfully defended his thesis and I will publish soon some details about it.

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1. Please define the uniqueness of the ecumenical dialogue here on the North American continent, in contrast with the dialogue in Europe or elsewhere? Do you see a paradigm that is specific to western culture (particularly in US, in the context of a pluralist Christian tradition or in the light of the dialogical development)? If your expertise is focused more on Europe, please address the question based on your experience.

DM – Although I never lived in the US, I traveled extensively there and I follow constantly the religious landscape there. Ecumenism is well and alive in the US. Yet, it involved more the Catholics and the mainline Protestants. Many of the American evangelical leaders do not strike me as very open ecumenically. That is true especially with the neo-reformed movement (the likes of Piper and Mohler), which is the new form of fundamentalism. However, there is a lot to appreciate also.

Douglas Knight – un site de teologie care merita explorat

Douglas Knight este un teolog anglican care predă teologie sistematică la Londra. Este autor al cărţii The Eschatological Economy: Time and the hospitality of God şi editor al lucrării The Theology of John Zizioulas.

Pe site-ul său. intitulat Douglas Knight. Resources for Christian Theology,  veţi găsi o sumendenie de resurse teologice extrem de folositoare. Vă doresc lecturi ziditoare.

Pe blogul Antiteze, al tânărului teolog ortodox Mihail Neamţu, puteţi găsi un foarte consistent text al acestui autor, pe care domnul Neamţu l-a cunoscut în timpul studiilor sale la King’s College London.