Martien E. Brinkman: A Reformed Voice in the Ecumenical Discussion

Buch des Monats Dezember 2016

In A Reformed Voice in the Ecumemenical Discussion Martien E. Brinkman offers a critical account of the main international ecumenical developments of the last three decades. He delivers a sketch of the Reformed contribution to the ecumenical dialogues dealing with issues like contextuality, state-church relations, the ethical implications of baptism, the church as sacrament of the kingdom and apostolic tradition. He pleas for a stronger non-Western input in the ecumenical discussions and emphasizes that in many contexts (Indonesia, India, China) the interreligious dialogue has become part of the inner-Christian dialogue. This study can be considered as a constructive contribution to the development of a hermeneutics of tradition and puts itself the critical question what is lost and found in translation. 

Martien E. Brinkman, Ph.D. (1979), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is emeritus Professor of Ecumenical/Intercultural Theology. He has published several monographs, including Progress in Unity? (Peeters/Eerdmans, 1995), The Tragedy of Human Freedom (Rodopi, 2003) and The Non-Western Jesus (Equinox 2009).

Martien E. Brinkman: A Reformed Voice in the Ecumenical Discussion
VIII, 292 Seiten, Brill 2016
ISBN: 9789004315297

Studies in Reformed Theology, 31