The Story of Christianity from Birth to Global Presence
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780802839442
Subjects: History; Religion - Church History; Religion; Christianity - History - General; Christianity; History of religion; Church history; Christianity - General
First sentence: At a point of time in the late twenties or early thirties of the first century of our era a youngish Jewish artisan called Jesus became known as a prophet, teacher, and healer in the region of his birth: the northern part of Roman-occupied Palestine.
Description: The Princeton Proposal is a landmark statement on the present situation and future possibilities of modern ecumenism. Drafted by sixteen theologians and ecumenists from various church traditions, who met over a period of three years in Princeton, New Jersey, this document seeks to steer contemporary efforts at church unity away from social and political agendas, which are themselves divisive, and back to the chief goal of the modern ecumenical movement {u2014} the visible unity of Christians worldwide, of all those who are reconciled "in one body through the cross."

Since the study group that produced this statement was instituted and its participants were chosen by an independent ecumenical foundation, the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology, their "unofficial" work presents especially profound and creative reflection on the ecumenical task. With this report the study group members do not claim to speak for their churches, but hope to speak to all the churches out of shared concern for the founding ecumenical imperative "that they all may be one . . . so that the world may believe."