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| Economics deals with the production, distribution and consumption of material goods and services. The second assembly of the WCC (Evanston 1954) summarized the ecumenical concern about economic and social issues as follows: “The church is concerned with economic life because of God’s concern for human beings who work to produce goods and services, who use them, and for whom business exists |
| Author: JULIO DE SANTA ANA |
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Education and renewal* have been emphasized in the church from its beginnings. |
| Author: JOHN S. POBEE |
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| In 1926 the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead described science and religion* as “the two strongest general forces” that influence human life. Inevitably, then, the ecumenical movement has had an interest in science.
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| Author: ROGER L. SHINN |
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| The ecumenical movement, which brings together Christians from diverse confessional and cultural traditions, is also a meeting-place of many different forms of spirituality. |
| Author: GWEN CASHMORE and JOAN PULS |
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| The word “capital” is found in early economic thought as a description of one of the three principal factors of production, the other two being labour and land. It has generated two particular areas of debate: the economic return attributable to capital and the question of the ownership of capital. |
| Author: OWEN NANKIVELL |
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| Socialism, a term of disputed and often imprecise meaning, refers to a socio-economic formation which exists for the benefit of most members of a society, particularly working people. |
| Author: PAUL MOJZES |
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| Differing ideas of justice exist in the Bible and throughout church history, and indeed in the modern ecumenical movement.
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| Author: ULRICH DUCHROW |
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| Racism has been a matter of concern to the Christian church from early times. It was J.H. Oldham, in his Christianity and the Race Problem (1924), who pioneered a systematic theology against racism. |
| Author: N. BARNEY PITYANA and MARILIA SCHÜLLER |
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| Love between man and woman is the only real marriage, which takes place when they discover each other, delight in each other and cleave to each other, as we read in Gen. 2:23‑25 and as Jesus confirms in the gospel (Mark 10:6‑9 and par.). |
| Author: ANDRÉ DUMAS , JORGE E. MALDONADO |
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| The derivation of the word “pacifism” – from Latin pax (peace) and facere (to make) |
| Author: ROGER WILLIAMSON |
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