The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation: Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox

The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation pursues its ecumenical goals by allowing the Bible itself to serve as the point of commonality. The volume retains the Bible's centrality as a guideline for individual faith and for the institutional design of churches in the context of contemporary social conflicts. The authors--one Protestant, one Catholic, one Orthodox--present ten unifying theses on the understanding and function of a conception of Scripture under the sign of Sola Scriptura. They agree that only Scripture, when correctly understood, bears witness to good news for everyone, and that only a shared, expectant, and critical turn to Scripture makes sustainable ecumenism possible. This is the basis for bringing biblical insights to the conditions that make community life possible amid the global and local, ecclesiastical and social conflicts of the present.

Stefan Alkier is professor of New Testament and the history of the early church at Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of numerous volumes, including Reading the Bible Intertextually (2009), Revelation and the Politics of Apocalyptic Interpretation (2012), Miracles Revisited: New Testament Miracle Stories and Their Concepts of Reality (2013), and The Reality of the Resurrection: The New Testament Witness (2013).

Christos Karakolis is a professor of New Testament at the Department of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is also a research fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Tobias Nicklas is a professor of New Testament studies and director of the Centre for Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon" at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He is research associate in the Department of New Testament at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, and adjunct ordinary professor at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

David M. Moffitt is professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews (2011), which was the recipient of a Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2013. He is coeditor of Son, Sacrifice, and Great Shepherd: Studies on the Epistle to the Hebrews (2020) and A Scribe Trained for the Kingdom of Heaven: Essays on Christology and Ethics in Honor of Richard B. Hays (2021). He has also published numerous scholarly articles and essays.