One Hope: Re-Membering the Body of Christ - Softcover

Nelson, Derek R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451496524 ISBN 13: 9781451496529

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, 2015

Synopsis

One Hope: Re-Membering the Body of Christ is a rich ecumenical resource designed to help Catholic and Lutheran communities mark the approaching 500th anniversary of the Reformation. By gathering together to reflect on and discuss its contents, Christians will foster the church's unity on a grassroots level and grow in their awareness of the ways that unity already exists.The essays in One Hope are the product of an intense collaborative process by six gifted scholars and pastoral leaders, three Lutheran and three Catholic: Julie K. Aageson, John Borelli, John Klassen, Derek Nelson, Martha Stortz, and Jessica Wrobleski. They explore experiences and activities that Catholics and Lutherans share and which connect to the living of their faith in embodied ways: breathing, eating, singing, forgiving, serving, and dying. One Hope will serve as a welcome resource for adult faith formation and parish discussion groups made up of Catholics, Lutherans, members of other denominations, or combinati

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About the Author

Julie K. Aageson recently retired as coordinator of ELCA Resource Centers and director of the Eastern North Dakota Synod Resource Center in Fargo, North Dakota at Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Aageson is a freelance writer and writes for two ELCA magazines.

John Borelli is Special Assistant to the President for Interreligious Initiatives at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He previously served as the Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and a consultor to the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. He has participated in church-sponsored ecumenical and interreligious dialogues for over thirty five years. With a PhD in Theology and the History of Religions from Fordham University, he has published several collections and over 200 articles on ecumenical and interreligious relations.

John Klassen, OSB, is in his fourteenth year of service as Abbot of St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. He is co-chair of Bridgefolk, a grassroots Mennonite-Catholic dialogue movement.

Derek Nelson is associate professor of religion at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana and director of the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program. He is the author of a new biography of the sixteenth-century theologian Martin Luther.

Martha Stortz is the Bernhard M. Christensen Chair in Religion and Vocation at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the author of Blessed to Follow: The Beatitudes as a Compass for Discipleship (Augsburg Fortress, 2008) and other books.

Jessica Wrobleski is assistant professor of theology and religious studies at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia. She is the author of The Limits of Hospitality (Liturgical Press, 2012).

Edition details

• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1451496524
• ISBN 13: 9781451496529
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104