Product Description: English summary: Ecumenicalism is stagnating. Religious denominations underline their confession more and more. But they should overcome separation to fight this credibility crisis. German text. German description: Die Spaltung der Kirche ist zu allen Zeiten als Widerspruch zum Evangelium der Versohnung empfunden worden...read more

Product Description: This is volume 5 of the award-winning reference work on Christianity. The multivolume "Encyclopedia of Christianity" is a monumental reference work that addresses the broad interest in Christianity and religion around the world today...read more

Product Description: This is the third volume of a five-volume reference work presenting the history and current state of the Christian faith in its rich spiritual and theological diversity around the world. It contains more than 350 articles for alphabetical entries J-O...read more

Product Description: The first volume set the standard for reference works of this kind. Essential, this is possibly the best encyclopedic reference on Christianity,---Library Journal. A translation and extensive revision of the third edition of Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon Internationale Theologische Enzyklopadie...read more

Product Description: Worship renewal is now on the agenda of many Reformed churches, as the need for adaptation and new approaches is acutely felt all over. How can the church faithfully worship God in the midst of rapidly changing situations? How can it constructively relate to widely differing cultural contexts? What is its place in the wider ecumenical scene? In preparing a sweeping survey of Reformed worship across time and place, this volume provides some help to those engaged with vital questions like these...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book includes a complete list of the churches and institutions--746 churches and 529 theological schools--that today claim for themselves the heritage of the Protestant Reformation and provides basic information on each of them. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Recent decades have witnessed significant progress in the theological consensus of the world's Christian communities. Although still separated along denominational lines existing since the Reformation, the principal Christian churches have engaged in ongoing discussions in an effort to understand and reconcile their differences...read more

Product Description: Two thoughtful ecumenists - a scientist and a theologian - reflect on our relationship to animals in the light of the biblical testimony, an inclusive theology of creation and Christian ethics, as well as ecological concerns and scientific insights into the consciousness, behaviour and suffering of animals...read more

Product Description: Provides access to key agreements between the Churches at a world level.