University Press of America
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Trim: 5¼ x 8½
978-0-8191-9262-2 • Paperback • December 1993 • $71.99 • (£55.00)
Dale T. Irvin is Professor of Theology at New York Theological Seminary.
...specifically focused and consistently written...a richly documented and carefully researched history and analysis of the W.C.C. from a deconstructionist Protestant perspective.
— Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York; Journal of Ecumenical Studies
[Irvin has] clearly put an enormous amount of time and spiritual energy into the research that allows [him] to give a rich and detailed picture of several of the major trajectories of the ecumenical conversation that has occupied and indeed fascinatedso many leading Christians this past century....I have been delighted to see how acutely [he has] spotted key themes, while also intrigued...by the judgements [he] make[s] on them.
— Martin Conway, lay member of the Church of England, President of the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, England, THE ECUMENICAL REVIEW; Journal of Ecumenical Studies
As the World Council of Churches moves towards its 50th anniversary, appraisals of where it and other streams of the ecumenical movement have been and might go will appear. Irvin's is outstanding, not least because it works creatively with the criticalissue of diversity and unity. And it does so both as a lens for reading history and a stance for living together now on a very crowded and fragile planet.
— Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York
As the World Council of Churches moves towards its 50th anniversary, appraisals of where it and other streams of the ecumenical movement have been and might go will appear. Irvin's is outstanding, not least because it works creatively with the critical issue of diversity and unity. And it does so both as a lens for reading history and a stance for living together now on a very crowded and fragile planet.
— Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York
...specifically focused and consistently written...a richly documented and carefully researched history and analysis of the W.C.C. from a deconstructionist Protestant perspective.
— Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York; Journal of Ecumenical Studies
[Irvin has] clearly put an enormous amount of time and spiritual energy into the research that allows [him] to give a rich and detailed picture of several of the major trajectories of the ecumenical conversation that has occupied and indeed fascinated so many leading Christians this past century....I have been delighted to see how acutely [he has] spotted key themes, while also intrigued...by the judgements [he] make[s] on them.
— Martin Conway, lay member of the Church of England, President of the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, England, THE ECUMENICAL REVIEW; Journal of Ecumenical Studies