{"id":18596,"date":"2010-03-17T17:53:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ecumenism_is_antidote_to_credibility_crisis_anglican_peace_advocate_says\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T17:53:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:53:39","slug":"ecumenism_is_antidote_to_credibility_crisis_anglican_peace_advocate_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18596","title":{"rendered":"Ecumenism is antidote to credibility crisis, Anglican peace advocate says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WCC News) &#8220;We need to emphasize time and again the sense of mutuality and interdependence as the basis of relationships between Christians&#8221;, said Dr Jenny Plane Te Paa, convener of the Anglican Peace and Justice Network (APJN). This is especially important at a time when &#8220;denominations are increasingly worried with internal, identity-centred issues and therefore risk a credibility crisis&#8221;, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Te Paa was speaking at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, after a meeting of the APJN members with staff of the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation and the World Student Christian Federation on Monday, 15 March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all tend to claim our differences in ways that prevent us from acknowledging our commonalities, so that within the churches, the fidelity to our denominations becomes more important than our higher fidelity to our oneness in Christ&#8221;, said Te Paa. &#8220;Only a theology of mutuality can help us to transcend this through a truly ecumenical attitude&#8221;, she concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/en\/news\/news-management\/eng\/a\/article\/1634\/ecumenism-is-antidote-to.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WCC News) &#8220;We need to emphasize time and again the sense of mutuality and interdependence as the basis of relationships between Christians&#8221;, said Dr Jenny Plane Te Paa, convener of the Anglican Peace and Justice Network (APJN). This is especially<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18596\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,399,74,168,119,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}