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Worship With One Accord: Where Liturgy and Ecumenism Embrace
Worship With One Accord Where Liturgy and Ecumenism Embrace Author:Geoffrey Wainwright The historical course of Christianity in the twentieth century has been strongly marked by the Ecumenical Movement and the Liturgical Movement, and often these currents for the recovery of the Church's unity and the renewal of its worship have flowed together. In his new book, Geoffrey Wainwright draws on his three decades of active participatio... more »n in both movements to offer a theologically informed account of what has been at stake in them, what their achievements have been, and what tasks remain for them to accomplish. He shows how the two movements have engaged such issues as the authority and function of Scripture and Tradition as well as the nature of the Church and sacraments. In this last connection, Wainwright illuminates the convergence represented by the widely received Lima text on "Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry," in the writing of which he played a prominent part.« less