Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Contents of Volume 50 (2015)
Volume 50, Number 4 (Fall 2015)
NEW ASSOCIATE EDITOR
NAAE REPORT
ARTICLES:
Vatican II—The Catholic Revolution from Damnation to Dialogue!
Leonard Swidler
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Nostra Aetate
Gregory Baum
Nostra Aetate: A Personal Reflection
Eugene J. Fisher
Sources for the Study of Catholic-Jewish Relations
Eugene J. Fisher
Ecumenical Reflections on Moral Discernment
John W. Crossin
The World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches and Religious and Political Rapprochement between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in the 1920’s and 1930’s
Priit Rohtmets and Radmila Radić
EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES:
Paulos Huang on Confucian-Christian Dialogue
Umberto Bresciani
BOOK REVIEWS
ECUMENICAL RESOURCES
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Volume 50, Number 3 (Summer 2015)
EDITORIAL:
Expand Our Egos to . . . All!
Leonard Swidler
ARTICLES:
Intimate Relations: Psalms and Bhakti Poetry
Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish
Lived Witness
Mitzi J. Budde
Contraception’s Authority: An Anglican’s Liturgical and Synodical Thought Experiment in Light of ARCUSA’s “Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment”
Matthew S. C. Olver
Imagining Mutual Christian Theological Identity: From Apologia to Dialogic Theologizing
Victor Ezigbo
Rationality and Religious Traditions: An Epistemological Approach to Theology of Religions
David J. Brewer
BOOK REVIEWS
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Volume 50, Number 2 (Spring 2015)
EDITORIAL:
Three Paths—Whither?
Leonard Swidler
SPECIAL SECTION ON THE 2014 NAAE CONFERENCE
Exploring a Common Vision for the Church for a North American Context: The 2014 North American Academy of Ecumenists Conference—President’s Introduction
Mitzi J. Budde
The Church: Towards a Common Vision
John St-Helier Gibaut
It Takes a Village: Can The Church: Towards a Common Vision Help Raise North American Ecumenists?
Sandra Beardsall
Towards a Common Vision of the Church: Will It Fly?
Thomas P. Rausch
A Reflection in Light of The Church: Towards a Common Vision—Primate’s Banquet Speech
Hovnan Derderian
Panel Presentation on The Church: Towards a Common Vision
Cecil M. Robeck, Jr.
A Wesleyan-Holiness Perspective on The Church: Towards a Common Vision
Don Thorsen
Reflections on The Church: Towards a Common Vision
Ray F. Kibler III
Panel Presentation on The Church: Towards a Common Vision
Madelon Maupin
Common Vision, Common Understanding
Paraskevè (Eve) Tibbs
ARTICLE:
Perspectives on Building Trust among Communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Challenges and the Role of Faith Communities
Hazim Fazlić
BOOK REVIEWS
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Volume 50, Number 1 (Winter 2015)
A FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF LEONARD SWIDLER
Introduction
Nancy E Krody
The “Dialogue of Civilizations” at the Tipping Point: The “Dialogosphere”
Leonard Swidler
Global Ethic at the Grassroots: A Research Proposal Based on the Work of Leonard Swidler
Nicole Melara
New Steps in the “Cosmic Dance of Dialogue”
Julia Sheetz-Willard and Rebecca Kratz Mays
Keeper of the Flame
Gerard Sloyan
Leonard Swidler: Dialogue Pioneer and Peacemaker
Harold Kasimow
Dialogue and Justice: Leonard Swidler’s Deep-Dialogue as an Essential Component of Justice
Joseph Stoutzenberger
Peace through Self-Awareness: A Model of Peace Education Based on Buddhist Principles
Gereon Kopf
The Enlightenment of Zen Buddhism and the Hesychastic Vision of the Divine Light
George C. Papademetriou
People of Place, Ethics of Earth: Indigenous Nations, Interfaith Dialogue, and Environmental Sustainability
Ann Marie Bahr
Lectionary Reflections and Ecological Concerns: A Contribution to Dialogue
Regina A. Boisclair
The Unlikely Commentator: The Hermeneutic Reception of Śaṅkara’s Thought in the Interpretive Scholarship of Dārā Shukøh
Douglas L. Berger
Two Pious Men, a Trusting Innkeeper, and a Neglected Son: Three Lucan Parables
Lewis John Eron
Dialogue and the Spirit of Vatican II: Reading Gaudium et Spes Fifty Years Later
Dugan McGinley
Cultivating Character: Creating a Multifaith Community of Discourse
Nancy Fuchs Kreimer
Becoming Friends
Ellen T. Charry
Reflections on Relational Ethics: Toward an Ethic of Prevention
Margaret Cotroneo
Both Insiders and Outsiders: Identity and Interreligious Dialogue in the Discourse of Islamic Communities in Croatia and Serbia concerning European Integration
Angela Ilić
Leonard Swidler’s Influence on the Work of an American Evangelical and on Romanian Academia
Michael S. Jones
Muslims and Christians Praying Together, or Not: Some Observations on German Protestant Attitudes toward Common Prayer
Alfons Teipen and Alex Pumphrey
Notes from a Field of Conflict: Trilateral Dialogical Engagement in Israel/Palestine
Björn Krondorfer
On the Role of Interreligious Dialogue in Religious Studies Programs at Indonesian State Islamic Universities
Florian Pohl
The Importance of Dialogue in Turkey
Kenan Cetinkaya
From Philadelphia to Kamina: Bumuntu Interreligious Dialogue in the Heart of Africa
Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha
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