The Leading Ecumenical Organizations of the First Half of the XX Century
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https://doi.org/10.31802/CH.2020.3.1.003Keywords:
ecumenism, ecumenical movement, Protestantism, history of Christianity, church, Orthodoxy, inter-Christian tiesAbstract
An article by Priest Ilya Nikolayevich Pismenyuk, Professor at the Department of Church History, dwells on the initial stage of development of the modern ecumenical movement after the end of the International Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910. At this stage, ecumenism was divided into three main directions: theological, socio-practical and missionary ones. All of them gradually found institutionalization in the first ecumenical organizations, among which the most notable were the conferences «Faith and Church Order» and «Life and Work», along with the International Missionary Council and World Alliance for the Promotion of International Friendship through the Churches. The development of these organizations made the basis of the future creation of the largest inter-Christian institution in history – the World Council of Churches.
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