Showing posts with label Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2015

David Carter on "Baptist-Catholic Dialogue Today"

The current issue of the journal Ecumenical Trends published by the Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute features an article titled "Baptist-Catholic Dialogue Today" by David Carter, a British Methodist church historian and member of the joint commissions of the British Methodist-Catholic dialogue and the international Catholic Church-World Methodist Council dialogue (Ecumenical Trends 44, no. 7 [July/August 2015]: 6/102-13/109). The article surveys the context and contributions of the second series of international conversations between the Baptist World Alliance and the Catholic Church that took place from 2006 through 2010 and issued the joint report "The Word of God in the Life of the Church."

This issue of Ecumenical Trends also includes Edward C. Andercheck's article "Methodist-Catholic Dialogue: Ut Unum Sint and Geoffrey Wainwright's Response" (1/97-5/101, 14/110). While both articles and the issue in which they appear are available online only to subscribers, a subscription to either the print ($30 per year, including digital access) or digital-only version of the journal ($15) includes online access to the past two years of back issues.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

In memoriam: Brother Jeffrey Gros (1938-2013)

Br. Jeffrey Gros, FSC
The death yesterday (August 12) of Brother Jeffrey Gros, FSC, an ecumenist who belonged to the Catholic order of the De La Salle Christian Brothers, is a great loss for the ecumenical movement. Brother Jeffrey became a kind encourager of my own work as a Baptist ecumenical theologian after we served as participants in a small consultation convened at the Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute in New York in January 2006 to ponder the factors behind the lack of support for a Second Conference on Faith and Order in North America intended to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1957 Oberlin Conference on Faith and Order. He was a good friend to Baptists and all others who belong to the one church of Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God for his life and work.

A notice of Brother Jeffrey's death appears on the Christian Churches Together web site.