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Toward The Common Confession of the Apostolic Faith Today

World Council Studies

C.S.Song, ed., Confessing Our Faith Around the World I, Faith and Order Paper No. 104, (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1980).

Hans-Georg Link, ed., Confessing Our Faith Around the World II, Faith and Order Paper No. 120, (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1983).

Hans-Georg Link, ed., Confessing Our Faith Around the World III: The Caribbean and Central America, Faith and Order Paper No. 123, (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1984).

Hans-Georg Link, ed., Confessing Our Faith Around the World IV: South America, Faith and Order Paper No. 126, (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1986).

Confessing The One Faith, Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1991.

Towards Sharing the One FaithA Study Guide for Discussion Groups, Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1996.

Hans-Georg Link, ed., Apostolic Faith Today: A Handbook for Study (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1985) .

Hans-Georg Link, ed. One God, One Lord, One Spirit: On the Explication of the Apostolic Faith Today, (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1988).

Hans-Georg Link, ed., The Roots of Our Common Faith: Faith in the Scriptures and in the Early Church (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1984).

"Towards the Common Expression of the Apostolic Faith Today, Lima Report, 1982," Towards Visible Unity (Faith and Order Paper No. 113, VOL. 2), Michael Kinnamon, ed., Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1982.

Gunther Gassmann, ed., Documentary History of Faith and Order: 1963-1993, Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1993.

Lukas Vischer, ed., Spirit of God, Spirit of Christ, Faith and Order Paper No. 103 (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1981).

Paulos Gregorios, William Lazareth and Nikos Nissiotis, eds., Does Chalcedon Divide or Unite? Towards Convergence in Orthodox Christology (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1981).

National Council Studies

Confessing One Faith: Grounds for a Common Witness, A Guide for Ecumenical Study (Cincinnati, OH: Forward Movement Publications, 1988).

Thaddeus Horgan, ed., Apostolic Faith in America, (Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 1988).

S. Mark Heim, ed., Faith to Creed, Grand Rapids: WBEerdmans, 1991.

Timothy J. Wengert and Charles W. Brockwell, jr., eds., Telling the Churches' Stories: Ecumenical Perspectives on Writing Christian History, Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995.

Marlin Miller & Barbara Nelson Gingrich, eds., The Church's Peace Witness, Grand Rapids: Wm B Eerdmans, 1994.

Paul Fries and Tiran Nersoyan, Christ in East and West (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1987).

"Confessing the Apostolic Faith from the Perspective of the Pentecostal Churches", One in Christ, Vol. XXIII,(1987 #1-2).

David T. Shannon and Gayraud Wilmore, ed., Black Witness to the Apostolic Faith, (Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 1988).

Theodore Stylianopoulos and Mark Heim, eds., Spirit of Truth: Ecumenical Perspectives on the Holy Spirit, (Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1986).

"Gender and Language in the Creeds" Union Seminary Quarterly Review 40:3,(August, 1985)

William Barr, Rena Yocom, Eds., The Church in the Movement of the Spirit, Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1994.

Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, Confessing Christian Faith in a Pluralistic Society, Collegeville, 1995.

John T. Ford and Darlis J. Swan, eds., Twelve Tales Untold: A Study Guide for Ecumenical Reception (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993).

Letty M. Russell, ed., The Church With Aids: Renewal in the Midst of Crisis (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990).

Susan E. Davies and Sr. Paul Teresa Hennessee, SA, eds., Ending Racism in the Church (Cleveland, Ohio: United Church Press, 1998).

Melanie May, ed., Women and Church: The Challenge of Ecumenical Solidarity in an Age of Alienation (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing; New York: Friendship Press, 1991).

Other Studies

H.S.Wilson, ed., Oriental Orthodox - Reformed Dialogue: The First Four Sessions, Geneva: The World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1998.

Lukas Vischer, ed., Agreed Statements: From the Orthodox - Reformed Dialogue, Geneva: World Alliance of Reformed Chruches, 1998.

Viggo Mortensen, ed., War, Confession and Conciliarity: "What does 'just war' in the Augsburg Confession Mean Today?" Geneva, Lutheran World Federation, 1992.

Hans Georg von Berg, et al., eds., Mennonites and Reformed in Dialogue, Geneva: World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1986.J. Stevenson, Creeds, Councils and Controversies, London: SPCK, 1966.

Gerard Kelly, Recognition: Advancing Ecumenical Thinking, New York/Bern: Peter Lang, 1996

Aloys Grillmeier, Christ in Christian Tradition: From Chalcedon to Justinian I Vol. I, Pt. 1, Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1987.

"An Evangelical Response to Confessing the One Faith", Theological News, July - September, 23:3, 8.

George Forell and James McCue, eds., Confessing One Faith: A Joint Commentary on the Augsburg Confession by Lutheran and Catholic Theologians, (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1982).

Geoffrey Wainwright, "Apostolic Traidtion as a Theme in Ecumnical Dialogue," Udo Kert, Aleksander Radler, et al., Tragende Tradition, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1992, 157-171

Avery Dulles, "Foundational Docuemnts of Faith, X. Modern Creedal Affirmations," Expository Times, 91:10, 291-296.

Brian Hearne, The Apostles'Creed: Faith of All Christians, Eldoret, Kenya: Gaba Publications, 1977.

Willis Logan, ed., The Kairos Covenant: Standing with South African Christains, (Oak Park: Meyer, Stone Books/New York: Friendship Press, 1988).

Thomas F. Stransky and John B. Sheerin, eds., Ecumenical Documents Volume I, Doing the Truth in Charity (New York/Mahwah:  Paulist Press, 1982).

Harding Meyer and Lukas Vischer, eds., Ecumenical DocumentsVolume II, Growth in Agreement (New York/Mahwah:  Paulist Press, 1984).

E.J. Stormon, ed. and trans., Ecumenical Documents Volume III, Towards the Healing of Schism (New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1987).

Joseph A. Burgess and Brother Jeffrey Gros, FSC, eds., Ecumenical Documents Volume  IV, Building Unity (New York/Mahwah:  Paulist Press, 1989).

Norman A. Hjelm, ed., Out of the Ashes: Burned Churches and the Community of Faith (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1997).

Harding Meyer, ed., That All May Be One:  Perceptions and Models of Ecumenicity (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999).

Thaddeus D. Horgan, ed., Walking Together: Roman Catholics and Ecumenism Twenty-Five Years after Vatican II (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1990).

James H. Cone, Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (Grand Rapids, MI:  William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1986).


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