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Panel I

1. Assemblies and history of Mission, Life and Work and Faith


and order
2. The first schisms chalcedonian (451)
a. Gnosticism find everything through knowledge
b. Arrianism Jesus is not equal to the Father.
c. Two schools;
i. Antioquia: insistence on the full humanity of Christ
(response to Apollinaris)
ii. Alexandria: one natura (physis) of the word of God
incarnate Monophysitism.
d. Nestorious condemned Monophysite problem but now they
realize that it was because of the difference in language
e. Autonomous
i. They take their decisions but depends on a
patriarchate
f. Autocephalous
i. Historical ancient;
1. Ecumenical Patriarchate
2. Alexandria and all Africa Patriarchate
3. Antioch and All the East Patriarchate
4. Jerusalem Patriarchate
g. Name Eastern Churches
h. Name Oriental Churches
3. Great schism (1054)
a. Filioque;
i. The procession of the Holy Spirit; and the son
b. After that the division;
i. Primacy of jurisdiction of pope
ii. Infallibility of the pope
iii. Purgatory and indulgence
iv. The immaculate conception of Virgin Mary
v. Assumption of the Virgin Mary
vi. Liturgical differences and of discipline
c. Vatican II
i. Encounter between the pope and ecumenical
patriarchate
4. Reformation (1516)
a. Context of indulgences and poorness in society (construction
of the Pete dome in Rome)
b. Martin Luther
i. Sola gratia, Scriptura, fide, Christos, Deo Gloria.
ii. Reduction of Sacraments
c. Catholic Reformation (or counter Reformation)
i. Council of Trent

1. Mass is a sacrifice
2. Reaffirmation of the Vulgate (canon of the Bible)
3. New ministerial orders (Jesuits)
5. Classical and Radical Reformation
a. Classical: German (Lutheran) and Swiss (Reformed Calvin)
reformation
b. Radical
i. Anabaptist;
1. Meaning of the word = re Baptist (called by
other reformers and Catholic Church), but they
dont call themselves like that because they
consider that do only one baptism
2. Menonites come from the Anabaptist, they are a
pacific church now
ii. Enthusiasts; They emphasized the Holy Spirit and said
that the inner word (what the Spirit tells you) is more
important than the written word, then sacraments
were no necessary, because they had a close and
direct relation with god.
1. Thomas Munzer; was one of these radical
theologians and believes in visions from the
people. He was one of the first ones that
criticized Luther on Baptism, he said that
baptism is only in the movement of the spirit
(inner) but not important the outside water.
iii. Anti- Trinitarian;
iv. Characteristics:
1. Mistrust against state and against state church.
2. Strictness in moral questions
3. Mystical idea of inner light
4. They claimed to be communities of real saints
(no dance, drink, etc). They become a really
exclusive group.
5. Baptism of adults
6. Charismatic and Pentecostal movements
a. Origins in the West USA; Assemblies of God, Church of God,
etc.
b. Asuza street experience; William Seymor (L.A. 1908), he was
afroamerican pastor, at that time was not aloud as a black
American to attend school, nevertheless they leave the door
open for him to listen he experienced tongues experience.
c. Characteristics as empowerment;
i. Mission
ii. Life as a saints
iii. Fight the enemy
d. Importance in eschatology

e. Centrality in the experience during Christian faith and liturgy


f. Glososalia
7. Churches in the Ecumenical Movement
a. Orthodox Church in the Ecumenical Movement
i. 1902 1904 first Orthodox Dialogues; Old Catholics
and Anglicans
ii. 1920. Unto the Churches of Christ everywhere
encyclical from Ecumenical Patriarchate to form a
League of Churches.
iii. 1945; Communist regime as context; Communist
churches were only observers. Because Moscu said
that WCC was occident imperialism expression
iv. 1948; Some from East and Oriental were founding
members
v. 1950; Toronto express what WCC is and what is not, so
then more orthodox were able to come as members
(WCC is not a mega church to serve Rome).
vi. 1961; New Dehli Assembly; Orthodox came as a block
and they changed the basis of WCC.
vii. After New Delhi, Faith and Order published The
importance of the Conciliar Process in the Ancient
Church for the Ecumenical Movement
viii. 1968, Uppsala WCC became Conciliar. WCC got more
social to respond to context and Ecumenical
Patriarchate and Moscu expressed they concern about
this. Many consultations were made.
ix. 1975, Armenia, first consultation. The liturgical
celebration in the church have to be continued in the
life of the faithfull in all dimensions of life. Published
the famous paper The Liturgy after the Liturgy
x. 1981, Sofia Consultation. Awareness of the minority of
Orthodox in WCC. They gave them 25% of
representative in all goberning and consultative body.
xi. 1991, Canberra Assembly. WCC use the Holy Spirit for
the first time. Scandal about the liturgy
xii. 1994; All the Orthodox Churches were members of
WCC
xiii. 1996, Salvador de Bahia Mission conference.
Statement about gospel and cultures (Result of many
of consultation after Liturgy in Canberra).
xiv. 1998; Harare Assembly. Churches started to have
problem and came out. Georgia and Bulgaria came
out.

xv. After this Assembly they started to participate with low


profile and make another meeting to decide if they
continue in WCC
xvi. 2006, Porto Alegre. New rules for conducting the
meeting (Consensus Method), new criteria for
membership, call it common prayer (heart of our
commitment to Christian unity); not to call it
worship, liturgy, not to use liturgical vestments
and to ask for common benediction.
xvii. 2013, Busan; Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace
xviii. Advantages from ecumenical movement
1. Encounter eastern and oriental
2. Experience renewal movements; biblical,
missiological,
3. Programs that serve and share in orthodox
countries
xix. Contributions to WCC from orthodox;
1. Ecclesiology
2. Koinonia
3. Missio Dei challenging western missiology
4. Diakonia
b. Reformation Churches in WCC
i. First Reformation; Waldensians and Jan Hus
ii. Classical and Radical Reformation
iii. Church without a Bishop, but not Church without the
functions normally assigned to a bishop.
iv. Augustan Confession (what defines the church is the
only thing necessary for his unity), preaching of the
Gospel and right celebration of the Sacraments.
v. Ancient globalization
1. World mission societies to do proselitism
2. World youth movements that gave many leaders
3. The empire paying for everything
vi. Globalization of the Reformation churches; world
mission agencies to colonize other countries like the
catholic church from Spain and Portugal in Latin
America.
1. Racism support
2. Nazis support
vii. Formation of the world communion of faith; World
Methodist Council, World Baptist Alliance, Lutheran
World Federation, etc. from that time, every General
Secretary gathered together
viii. Examples of Ecumenical Agreements
1. Leuenberg Agreement
a. In the line of the Augustana Confession

b. Between the Anglican, Lutherans and also


Reformed and United German.
c. Agreement in Europe.
2. Porvoo agreement
a. Anglican and Lutherans Churches in the
Nordic countries (England, Ireland,
Scotland and Wales, Anglican) (Sweden,
Finland, Iceland, Estonian and Norway,
Lutheran).
c. Pentecostals in the Ecumenical Movement
i. Azusa Street revival, African Methodist Church in Los
Angeles.
ii. Pentecostal revival came from Methodist and Wesleyan
movements in US and UK
iii. 3 waves
1. Classical Pentecostals; Assemblies of God,
2. Charismatic Movement
3. Neo Pentecostal churches
iv. Christianity: 25% WCC, 25% Pentecostals, 50% Roman
Catholics
v. From Canberra 1991 WCC started worrying about
Pentecostals
vi. They are not interes in WCC because; they suffered
from the leader churches in WCC, the lack of
education, fundamentalist literature against
ecumenism and the eschatological understanding of
the one mega church for the end of the world.
vii. Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a sign of unity
viii. They formed the National Association of Evangelicals
(USA) and dont let the members to participate in the
Federal Council (formatted in 1908) and also they
forbid the members to collaborate in the refuge
program with WCC and the Federal Council.
ix. Pioners in WCC; David du Plessis. Cecil M. Robeck, he
explained the divine call to work in ecumenism and
that is why he got the support to participate.
x. They made the Pentecostal Consultative Group (WCC)
1. They created the Global Christian Forum for the
Pentecostals to participate with WCC member
churches, Roman Catholic Church, world
communion of faith organizations and with the
Pentecostal or Evangelical participation; World
Evangelical Alliance, Pentecostal World
Fellowship.
d. Roman Catholic Church in the Ecumenical Movement
i. 1.2 Billions

ii. Pope is the successor from St. Peter.


1. Throne: Holy see or the Apostolic See
2. Head of the State
3. Roman Catholic Church is not an homogeneous
Body, it is conformed by
a. In the West
i. The Latin Church with Latin Liturgical
Traditions
b. And at least 22 Churches in the East
i. Alexandria liturgical tradition
1. Coptic Catholic Church
2. Ethiopic Catholic Church
ii. Anthiochian liturgical tradition
1. Maronite Church
2. Syrian Catholic Church
3. Syro Malankara Catholic
Church
iii. Armenian liturgical Tradition
1. Armenian Catholic Church
iv. Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical
tradition
1. Chaldean Catholic Church
2. Syro-Malabar Church
v. Byzantine liturgical tradition
1. Albanian Byzantine Catholic
Church
c. Catholic Liturgical Rites
i. Byzantine Rite
ii. Roman Rite
iii. Ambrosian Rite
iv. Aquileian Rite
v. Rite of Braga
vi. Mozarabic Rite
vii. Zairean Rite
d. Vatican II
i. Decree Unitatis Redintegratio; one of
the principal concerns is the
restoration of Unity among all
Christians
ii. Call from John Paul II for Unity
e. 1960, Pope John XXIII established the
secretariat for promoting Christian Unity
f. First observers from Vatican were in 1961,
New Delhi.
g. Join working group between Catholic
Church and WCC, relation between Visser

f Hooft and the first president of the


Secretariat; Cardinal Augustin Bea.
i. First Meeting at Bossey in 1965
h. Faith and Order participation
i. 1963 Montreal they are observers
ii. 1968 they are participating in the
Comission
i. Summary from Roman Catholic to
Ecumenical Movement question
i. Specify always the difference Roman
Catholic and the WCC
ii. Ecumenical movement needs clarity
iii. For them unity is not uniformity
iv. The dialogues are with others that
have clear identity
v. The soul and heart of the ecumenical
movement is spiritual ecumenism.
j. The Pontifical Council for the Promotion of
Christian Unity Dialogues
i. East Dialogues
1. Orthodox; Theology and
ecclesiology / primacy and
sinodality
2. Oriental Orthodox;
Communion, Martyrdom and
monastism
3. Malankara churches in India;
ecclesiology and witness
ii. West
1. Churches
2. World Communion of Faith
iii. Participation in WCC
1. 4 Theologians in Faith and
Order (they prepare together
the week of prayer texts for
each year)
2. Joining working group in WCC
3. And they support Bossey with
scholarships, professor,
interreligious dialogue program
and facilitate the visit to Rome.
iv. Global Christian Forum
1. Participation together with
world communion councils,
wcc, world evangelical and

Pentecostal councils and the


Vatican
v. Why not member of WCC?
1. Ecclesiology; faith, sacraments
and structure.
2. Authority; papacy
3. Nature of the WCC; they are
not national or regional church
they are universal.
4. Commited partnership is more
important than membership
Second Part of Panel I
8. Jews
a. They dont have an escathological perspective of live. They
focus on the today
b. The covenant is very important;
i. God reveal himself to the people.
ii. Promise of Land to practice fully the religion
c. How to put in practice the religion
i. Law
ii. Not important what do we believe but what do we do.
d. Justice and peace
i. They are not pacifist
ii. They do justice because of the fear of God, love of God
and to imitate God.
iii. To avoid violence and war
1. Offer the possibility of peace Peaceful and to
show the Torah
2. Negotiate with them.
3. If it is needy you can be against the halakha (you
can lie) to preserve peace
4. If it is necessary then fight
e. Orthodox Jew are very strict and fundamentalist
9. Hinduism
a. Not a religion
b. They have one god but with many different faces
c. Different temples for the different aparitions of the Gods
d. Book; vedas
e. Believe strongly in karma
f. When there are crisis, injustice, etc, then the god appears (is
birth)
g. They are vegetarian because the dont want to kill and
destroy life
h. They are doing justice because of the karma (action and
reaction)

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Islam
99 names for God
i. Allah means God; from the one who we com and to the
one we go. His name never finishes when we say it
Principles
i. Believe in God
ii. In angels
iii. Demons
iv. God chose prophets, messengers to send them to
humanity
5 main prophets
i. noah
ii. Abraham
iii. Moses
iv. Jesus (name that comes more than Mohamed)
v. Mohamed (refer to Jesus as his brother)
Islam believes in predestination
We are living by thinking and acting
Prostination; to put the head to the floor to God but not to do
it to other humans.
2.5% of the income is for the poor directly
Ramadan
i. To understand hungriness from others and be thankful
ii. To clean their body
They teach humility; to kill ego and live in equality
Coran most be read in the context to be interpretade like the
Bible is during the exegesis and hermeneutics process. Not
literal interpretation that leads to fundamentalist actions.
Two principles;
i. Freedom of Believe
ii. Protection of human being
Believe in the Torah and Gospel say the Coran
Budhism
They dont have god
Buda was a prince
i. He got into a process of suffering
ii. Then he realize through meditation we can find the
light
4 truths
i. Suffering
ii. Origin of Suffering
iii. End of surrering
iv. The way or path
27 level of paradises
i. The last 4 (24-27) are the highest

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ii. The lowest ones are in touch with humans and they
protect the Buddha
3 seals
i. everything is not permanent
ii. there is no soul
iii. nirvana is peace
they talk about new life but not call it reincarnation
8 steps to the path
i. Perfect Vision
ii. Perfecto Emotion
iii. Perfect Speech
iv. Integral Action
v. Proper livelihood
vi. Complete Effort
vii. Complete Awareness
viii. Holistic Samadhi (Meditation absortion of mind)
Justice and peace; karma, action and result. And there is the
teaching of compassion.

Panel II
1. WCC work and with other fellowships from global
communions, regional ecumenical and national
2. From Christendom to World Christianity
a. Christendom = theocracies (where the center of Christianity
was)
b. World Christianity
i. Geographical perspective
ii. Spiritual perspective
iii. Theological Landscape

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iv. Economic perspective


v. Migratory perspective
Missio Dei
a. 1932 (Brandenburg Missionary Conference) Karl Barth
mission as an activity of God himself when he presented a
paper.
b. 1952 (Willingen Conference) first time that Missio Dei is
used: Mission was understood as being derived from the
very nature of God; God Father sending the Son, and God the
Father and the Son sending the Spirit was expanded to
include yet another movement: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
sending the church into the World.
c. Church is here because of the mission
Mission from the Margins
a. From imago dei we are all part of a marginal group in society
or context
b. All of us we can be marginalize
Migration the other is my neighbor
a. Migration is gradually perceived not only as an ethical
diaconal dimension, but also as an ecumenical theological
challenge for the churches committed to a common witness
in the midst of diversity (The other is my neighbor book)
b. Bible example for migration; Exodus, Jesus, etc.
c. Migrant churches; Like Christian Latin-American Community
Advocating and human rights:
a. From Old Testament and Gold rule; Imago Dei
b. We know what is it but is difficult to put it in practice
Rich and poor
a. Fellowship = Koinonia etimology of Economy (oikos
house)
b. Law from the Old Testament;
c. Redistribution of money to the majority from the elite
minorities.
d. No to exclusion, idolatry of money, system that rules instead
of serve, not to inequality that bring us to violence pope
Evangeli Gaudium
Gender justice
a. Gender is not biological given but a social construction
b. Equity leads to equality
c. Feminist independent on them
d. Womanism from Africa, not against man but in favor of
justice
e. Just Community of Women and Men (Program)
Health Issues
a. Worship, witness, fellowship and service to others that felt
from faith

b. Jesus heals Christ helped the marginalized, suffering and


sick
c. The first hospitals and healing places were together with the
Church.
d. Missionary work was always connecting with healing
e. Live the Promise: HIV campaign
f. Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy (EHAIA)
10.

Overcoming Violence as ecumenical challenge


a. Violence is part of the human condition; we cannot exist
without violence.
b. Sometimes when it does not affect us directly then we dont
care about violence
c. Who is the violent and the suffering violence? Who is the
good and the bad? It is not our job to judge the others but to
end violence.
d. WCC programs: like racism program, accompaniment in
Palestine and Israel.
e. We need to be careful with generalizing and fundamentalist
ideas
11.
An Ecumenical call to just peace: fellowship of
churches on a pilgrimage of justice and peace.
a. Call of Justice and Peace in a call and commitment from
Christians
b. It concerns all who seek peace according to their all religious
conviction
c. Just peace people are: ambassadors from God bringing
reconciliation and peace.
d. Just peace may be comprehended as a collective and
dynamic yet grounded process of freeing human beings from
fear and want, of overcoming enmity, discrimination and
oppression, and of establishing conditions for just
relationships that privilege the experience of the most
vulnerable and respect the integrity of creation.
e. Process to get to just peace; journey is difficult; maintain
together, different context and situations, looking forward to
human dignity.
12.
Ecumenical Fellowship, Case Study EAPPI (Ecumenical
Acompainment Program in Palestine and Israel).
a. Accompaniment to no violent actions
b. Advocacy to end the occupation
13.
Enviroment justice
a. Trinitarian Theology
i. We are working the garden of the Creator
ii. We are not over the other creatures and we are not the
rulers

iii. 3 principles of international actions


1. Precautionary Principles
2. Polluter pays principle
3. Equity principle (international and
intergenerational)
iv. Ecumenical Water Network
v. Orthodox care of creation in september from
Ecumenical Patriarchate

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