Turn to God, rejoice in hope
Subtitle: Orthodox reflections on the way to Harare : the report of the WCC Orthodox pre-Assembly meeting and selected resource materials
By: edited by Thomas FitzGerald and Peter Bouteneff.
Contributors: FitzGerald, Thomas E., 1947-; Bouteneff, Peter.; World Council of Churches. Orthodox Task Force.; World Council of Churches. Assembly
Publisher: World Council of Churches, Orthodox Task Force
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: World Council of Churches. Assembly; Eastern churches -- Relations -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Pre-Assembly meeting held at St. Ephrem Theological Seminary, Maʼarat Saydnaya, near Damascus, Syria, May 7-13, 1998. Purpose of the meeting was to reflect upon issues related to the Eighth Assembly of the World Council of Churches which will be held in Harare, Zimbabwe, Dec. 3-14, 1998.
Table of contents: value: Final statement of the Orthodox pre-Assembly meeting; value: Address of His Holiness Ignatius Zakka I Iwas; value: Response of His Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim; value: The Orthodox pre-Assembly meeting : an introduction / Thomas FitzGerald; value: Aphrahat the Persian sage on turning to God : a reflection on the Assembly theme / Mor Cyril Aphrem (Karim); value: The environment of the Harare Assembly of the WCC : a tentative weather forecast / K.M. George; value: The Assembly in context : the WCC and the Orthodox churches on the way to Harare / Leonid Kishkovsky (in absentia); value: Orthodox perspectives from Africa; value: Common understanding and vision of the WCC : preliminary observations on the reflection process; value: Three Orthodox contributions to the common understanding and vision process; value: Discerning the signs of the times : women in the life of the Orthodox Church; value: Gospel and cultures : an inter-Orthodox consultation; value: Orthodox witness in Africa today : a pan-African inter-Orthodox consultation; value: Report of the moderator, His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia; value: Meeting of the partriarchs of the Middle East Oriental Orthodox churches; value: The ecumenical movement in the twentieth century : the role of theology in ecumenical thought and life in Romania; value: Evaluation of new facts in the relations of Orthodoxy and the ecumenical movement; value: Orthodox liturgical renewal and visible unity; value: On the relationship of the Orthodox Church to the WCC; value: From Canberra to Harare (1991-1998) : an Orthodox-WCC activity report; value: Orthodox-WCC relations : a contribution from the Orthodox Task Force.