Finding a Voice
Communicating the Ecumenical Movement
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
166 pages
978-2-8254-1335-7 (ISBN)
Description
For more than ten years, before his untimely death in 2000, Marlin VanElderen served as editor of the acclaimed WCC magazine One World. Particularly through his thought-provoking and incisive editorials he succeeded in making One World a widely appreciated source of information and reflection about the ecumenical movement. This book is a selection of these editorials. Rooted in biblical faith, they tell and interpret the story of the complexity of unity in the widest sense of the word.
Reviews / Votes
"Marlin VanElderen was a rare ecumenical treasure. Rooted deeply in a strong Reformed tradition, he was nonetheless able to engage with the rest of the church and, indeed, help the church to engage with the rest of the world as a 'community of moral discourse' as he put it." -- Jim Wallis, Editor-in-Chief of Soujourners Magazine, USA. "These elegant moving meditations arrest one's attention with their opening close observation of some concrete happening: often whimsical, sometimes quirky, now and then biting. And then they open up into wide realms of profound Christian truth and meaning. What a rich legacy -- from one untimely gone." -- Nicholas Wolterstorff, Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School, USA.More details
Person
the late Marlin VanElderen was Executive Editor of the World Council of Churches.
Content
The Pillars of Globalisation; Definitions of Globalisation: A Comprehensive Overview and a Proposed Definition; Historical Milestones of Globalisation; Proposal for a Globalisation Matrix: Quantifying Impacts and Responses; Proposal for a Stability Matrix; Proposal for a Security Matrix; The Future of Globalisation; Index.