Ecumenism Books

In Keeping the Faith in Interfaith Relationships, Stuart Dauermann calls for a reconsideration of the long held assumption that a Jew who believes in Jesus exits from Jewish life. Dauermann represents Jesus, not as an exit, but as an entrance into more...

In Christians and Jews Together, Stuart Dauermann challenges Christians and Jews to discover new ways to partner together in serving what God is up to in the world. He imaginatively connects the thinking of Paul the Apostle with the Prophet Ezekiel,...

A Dream for Peace is the most surprising Ambassador's Memoir. The French edition Un Rêve Pour La Paix was published in 2018 by les Éditions de l’Archipel, in Paris, France.  The Algerian edition was...

This book serves as a comprehensive guide to fostering personal growth, community harmony, and environmental stewardship. Drawing upon wisdom from diverse religious traditions, philosophies, and practical life experiences, it outlines a holistic approach...

Women have always used art to explore their place in the world and before God.Join us in reflecting on Scriptures about women at water sites.Enter the stories of women expressed through craft.Experience the life-giving power of water, and the personal...

Spiritual seekers across faith traditions share a fierce yearning for mystical unity with their God. While beliefs and practices differ, what ignites the human heart to quest for the mystical, the unknowable, the holy just beyond understanding, is the...

"The Shocking History of the Jesuits (The Society of Jesus)" is a groundbreaking exposé that takes readers on a rollercoaster ride through the scandalous and often shocking history of the Jesuit order. Authored by G. Patrick and James G. Battell, this...

Nigeria, a country under a military regime for several years, transitioned to a civilian regime in May 1999. Since this change, violent conflicts between Christians and Muslims have continued to erupt. They constitute one of the gravest dangers facing...

Continuing the unbroken conversation on ethics that has endured across the Christian generations, David Oki Ahearn and Peter R. Gathje present Doing Right and Being Good. For Ahearn and Gathje, ethics is the critical reflection on morality, focusing on...

The title of this book, Shhh! The Sound of Sheer Silence: A Biblical Spirituality that Transforms, comes from the biblical narrative about the prophet Elijah experiencing God on a mountain in a sound of sheer silence. Many people seek a way of life that...

Synthesizing the thinking of the most prominent scholars, professor Edmund Chia discusses practically everything that should be known about Christianity's encounter with other religions in this comprehensive book. Topics include:the invention of the...

Editorial 7Part One: Official Statements and Documents Nostra Aetate and Encounters of Friendship 13Wilhelmus ValkenbergA Common Word between Us and You - a Carrier of Hope 22Vebjørn L. HorsfjordMigration as a Kairos Moment for Protestant-Muslim...

Acclaimed by leaders, teachers and grassroots justice-seekers from multiple faith traditions, Justice-Love invites us to probe our own thoughts and emotions on the way to more loving and healing connections with others. Fourteen brief readings address...

A unique account of a little-known yet momentous effort to join forces in proclaiming the gospel in a society shaped by increasing decline in church attendance and major social challenges.

Islamophobia continues to rise among Americans even within progressive mainline churches, creating a poisonous and dangerous atmosphere for interfaith relations. American Lutherans, however, have been engaged in dialogue with Islam for over a generation...

What do Christian Churches say Islam is? What does the Church of England say Islam is? And, in the end, what space is there for genuine engagement with Islam? Richard Sudworth's unique study takes as its cue the question of political theology and...

In his Epistle to the Corinthians, written around the year 100 CE, Clement of Rome remarked that 'it is by faith and hospitality that Abraham became the son of the Covenant'. Not by faith alone, but also by a hospitality that had its origin in faith...

How long will good people remain silent in the face of the religious bigotry that has captured our Christian faith in America?  How long will we sit silently by while religious bigotry overshadows love, tolerance and grace?How long before we finally...

Although part of a worldwide Christian spirituality, Pentecostals and Charismatics in the UK are rooted in British religiosity dating back to at least the 1920s. However, the emergence of migrant communities from the Caribbean and Africa since the 1950s...

There is no doubt that ecumenism occupies a prominent place in the history of the church in the twentieth century: countless churches have been renewed through encounter with Christian sisters and brothers in other confessions and cultures. But it is not...

In After Our Likeness, the inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina series, Miroslav Volf explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. The focus is the community of grace, the Christian church. The point of departure is...

Transforming Relations is a collection of original essays on the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern era that honors the influential work of Michael A. Signer (1945-2009). Reflecting the breadth of Signer's...

This book is a celebration of the one-hundred-year history of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and a wonderful resource for understanding the theology and practice of common prayer for the reconciliation of the churches. Contributors to this volume...

For many, the idea of interfaith engagement is one to be treated with scepticism. Whilst there is fierce discussion around interfaith issues at a scholarly level, this fails to make an impact on the practice of the church. And yet, an increasing number...

This is book is an exploration of Christianity alongside Jewish guides who are well-studied in and sympathetic to Christianity, but only ever "near Christianity." Using his journey within historical Jesus research and New Testament studies, Anthony Le...

Communio Sanctorum is the most recent product of the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue in Germany and the first major Lutheran-Catholic ecumenical statement since the ground-breaking Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. it focuses on the...

"For a Pashtun, the world is a dangerous place. . . . To negotiate such a world, a man or woman needs wise words. . . . Pashto proverbs provide critical lessons about faith and honor, human nature and relationships, friends and enemies, power and...

The position and treatment of women in every religion, culture, and society have been subjects of concern for a long time. In every society, women fight for their emancipation from exploitive and oppressive patriarchal structures. The most contentious...

In April 2008 a conference was convened at Rice University that brought together experts in the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The papers discussed at the conference are presented here, revised and updated. The thirteen...

Not a few figures--writers, poets, activists, teachers--have focused on the presence of the Holy One in the ordinary, on the many possibilities of worldly spirituality. In this book, pastor, teacher, and theologian Michael Plekon introduces us to several...

Revival and the End Times: Exploring Reformation Declarations of theChurch of England, 1536-1571" offers an insightful journey into the heart ofreligious transformation during a pivotal period in English history. Thisscholarly work meticulously examines...

 Em "Harmonia Revelada: Um Diálogo Entre Fé e Razão", o aclamado autor William Jones convida os leitores a uma profunda jornada de exploração da intrincada interação entre duas facetas essenciais da compreensão humana. Com eloquência e perspicácia,...

Sacred Center point Jerusalem, a guide of otherworldly importance and a blend of different societies, has a significant worldwide effect that stretches out past its verifiable and strict importance. This hallowed city, worshipped by Judaism,...

In today's polarized publics, we are rarely prepared to encounter one another peaceably and deeply across irreconcilable difference. A Companionable Way invites inquisitive minds, body-souls, and spiritual hearts into the delightful but demanding inner...

Have you ever wondered why your family life seemed more of a daily struggle than having love and peace in your home? Have you lost the romance you once shared since the birth of your child? These are questions many families seek answers to but never seem...

Veteran journalist Bill Tammeus contends that the road to a rich, dynamic, healthy faith inevitably must run through the valley of the shadow of doubt. He argues in favor of recognizing our mortality, of adopting the Benedictine virtue of humility and of...

This book examines, in the midst of increasing violence in the Middle East, how the Holy Spirit is leading people of all religions into a new future and how God's outpouring Spirit must be considered to be the power of resistance to evil. 

When the definitive history of Christianity in the twentieth century is written, one of the key figures will certainly be that of Roger Schutz-Marsauche (1915-2005), known as Brother Roger, the founder and first prior of the Taize Community in France...

The Abrahamic religions have had an impact on the world beyond anything the man Abraham could have ever imagined. True indeed, over 3 billion people claim allegiance to one of the movements that sprang from his devotion. The four main Abrahamic religions...

A nuclear Israel waits for its Messiah, a nuclear America eagerly anticipates the second coming of Christ, and a nuclear Iran believes it can expedite the return of the hidden or twelfth imam. Are apocalyptic expectations, like all other ideologies,...