Toward a Common Future: Ecumenical Reception and a New Consensus

This book provides a specific proposal for churches divided by centuries-long disputes and disagreements to move toward a vision of the unity of the church. It seeks to offer a way for divided churches to move beyond the present quagmire that challenges much of the modern ecumenical movement. Building upon the theological dialogues between the churches, this volume identifies and supplies a way for churches to regain a momentum that seems recently to have been lost in the ecumenical movement.

William G. Rusch is executive director of the Office for Ecumenical Affairs, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.