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Ecumenism for the Sake of the World34

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2017

Antje Jackelén
Antje Jackelén*
Affiliation:
Archbishop of Uppsala, Primate of the Church Of Sweden
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“Today's challenges are no longer defined by local or national borders. They are glocal, both global and local. Borders are no longer what they used to be. That should not scare us. Because at the center of Christianity, there is a God crossing the most dramatic border of all: the one between divine and human. Transgression of borders always entails ‘Berührungsangst,’ the anxiety of touching and being touched by what is different, strange, other. As people of faith, we can live with these anxieties, remaining centered in the Gospel of the incarnated Christ and open, very much open, to the world. And so, united in prayer for God's creation and the church of Jesus Christ, we say with confidence: Veni Creator Spiritus, Come Creator Spirit.”

Type
Theological Roundtable
Information
Horizons , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , December 2017 , pp. 414 - 419
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Copyright © College Theology Society 2017 

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Footnotes

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An earlier version of the text in this contribution was published as “To Pope Francis,” Dialog 54, no. 3 (September 2015) and “Ecumenical Prospects after the Joint Commemoration of the Reformation in Lund,” Dialog 56, no. 2 (June 2017). The editors of Horizons thank the editors of Dialog for permission to reprint these contributions.

References

35 Kurt Koch and Martin Junge, “Together in Hope: The Joint Catholic-Lutheran Commemoration of the 500 Years of Reformation,” October 11, 2016, http://www.lund2016.net/press-releases-english/2016/10/13/together-in-hope-joint-article-by-lwf-general-secretary-junge-and-pcpcu-president-koch.

36 “Common Prayer,” 141.

37 Ibid., 17.

38 Ibid.

39 Ibid.

40 Ibid.

41 “Address of His Holiness Pope Francis,” Christuskirche Parish, November 15, 2015, https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151115_chiesa-evangelica-luterana.html.

42 Kasper, Walter, “Mercy Is the Medicine to Heal the Wounds of the Church,” The Tablet: The International Catholic News Weekly, November 12, 2015 Google Scholar, http://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/7234/mercy-is-the-medicine-to-heal-the-wounds-of-the-church.