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The GRAYMOOR ECUMENICAL & INTERRELIGIOUS INSTITUTE
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God\u2019s Terrible Springtime? Ecumenical Purpose and Opportunity in Times of Upheaval \u2013 A colloquium with the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement and three distinguished guests on the underappreciated power of ecumenism today<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Wednesday, 20 October 2021<\/p>\n

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REGISTRATION<\/strong> IS OPEN!<\/span> – Click here to book your ticket<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Panelists<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rev. Dr. Dale Irvin
\n<\/span>Founding Faculty Member, New School of Biblical Theology; Adjunct Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Georgetown University; Chair, Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Mary Doak
\n<\/span>Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Tony Kireopoulos
\n<\/span>Senior Program Manager for Faith & Order and Interfaith Relations, National Council of Churches USA<\/span><\/p>\n

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About this event<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In April of 1944, one of the pioneering American ecumenical theorists, John Mackay, wrote in the inaugural issue of Theology Today that his moment \u2013 at the height of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust \u2013 might indeed prove to be \u201cone of God\u2019s springtimes, albeit one of His terrible springtimes.\u201d Pointing to revolutionary changes not only on the political stage but also in education, economics, and indeed in the churches and in relations between the churches, Mackay called on the readers of the fledgling journal to attend not only to the tremendous crises at hand but also to the opportunity for \u201chouse-cleaning\u201d that would accompany the storms and stress of their time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our own time \u2013 in the midst of a global pandemic, wracked by spasms of cultural and political antagonism, and facing scarcely imaginable upheavals of economic and ecological disorder \u2013 looks increasingly to be another such \u201cterrible springtime.\u201d And the ecumenical movement, or what is left of it, must again reckon with its purpose and possibilities in such a context. The period following World War II saw the emergence of the World Council of Churches and the convocation of the Second Vatican Council, inspiring us to wonder what novel ecumenical modalities and methodologies will emerge for the mid-twenty-first century.<\/span><\/p>\n

This webinar poses the questions: Without presupposing the shape they will take, in what new ways might ecumenism \u2013 both between and within religious communities \u2013 best serve the world in our time of economic, cultural, political, and ecological upheaval? What might be the role, and what are the opportunities and pitfalls, of a vision of unity and reconciliation that is mistrusted on either extreme of the political\/ethical spectrum that dominates American (indeed Western more generally) civil discourse and imagination today?<\/span><\/p>\n

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