Sources of authority
Subtitle: Contemporary churches
By: edited by Tamara Grdzelidze
Contributors: Grdzelidze, Tamara, editor; World Council of Churches. Commission on Faith and Order
Series: Faith and order paper -- no. 218; Faith and order paper -- no. 218.
Publisher: World Council of Churches Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9782825416037
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Christianity; Congresses; Authority; Church
Other titles: Contemporary churches
Notes: Proceedings from the consultation on Sources of Authority in Our Churches at Present, held 26 June to 2 July, 2011 in Moscow and sponsored by the Faith and Order Commission.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev -- Editor's introduction / -- Tamara Grdzelidze; title: Experience as a source of authority for faith  -- Susan Durber -- A response to Susan Durber / -- Pablo R. Andiñach; title: Reflection from indigenous peoples' perspective on the sources for authority in the church  -- Limatula Longkumer -- A response to Limatula Longkumer / -- Tore Johnsen; title: The Holy Spirit as a source of authority in the African Independent Churches  -- David A. Adesanya -- A response to David A. Adesanya / -- Cecil M. Robeck Jr.; title: Congregation as a source of authority in Baptist ecclesiology  -- Glenroy Lalor -- A response to Glenroy Lalor / -- Karen E. Smith; title: Sources of authority in Lutheran churches at present  -- Anne-Louise Eriksson -- A response to Anne-Louise Eriksson / -- Dagmar Heller; title: Reason as a source of authority in the Anglican tradition  -- John St-H. Gibaut; title: Liturgical texts as a source of authority in the Coptic Orthodox Church  -- Metropolitan Bishoy of Damiette -- A response to Metropolitan Bishoy of Damiette / -- Shahe Ananyan; title: Hierarchy as a source of authority in the Orthodox Church  -- Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev -- A response to Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev / -- Marina Kolovopoulou; title: The magisterium in the Catholic Church as a source of authority  -- Michel Van Parys -- A response to Michel Van Parys / -- Wolfgang Thönissen; title: Report of the Faith and Order Consultation on Sources of Authority in Our Churches at Present: reflectons from where we are now.