Paper Sessions
The review committee received and adopted 37 abstracts to be presented in the parallel sessions. Each topic will have 30 minutes, 20 for presentation and 10 for discussion.
Tuesday 28 June at 14-16
Systematic Ecumenism 1
Room: Main Hall. Moderator: Cyril Hovorun
Harald Hegstad, Baptism as a Participatory Sign: The Ecumenical Potential of the Sacramental Turn in Baptismal Theology. Read abstract
Nathan Smith, The Epistemological Underpinnings of Reception. Read abstract
Bilateral Dialogues 1
Room: Framtiden. Moderator: Jan Eckerdal
Tony Franklin-Ross, Receptive Episcopacy and JDDJ. A Developing Basis for Relationships. Read abstract
John Claydon, The Nature of Oversight: English Baptists and the Question of Bishops. Read abstract
Heta Hurskainen, To Discuss What Is Not Discussed: Orthodox–Lutheran Dialogues and Alternative Anthropologies. Read abstract
Local Experiences of Ecumenism 1
Room: Forum. Moderator: Anders Wejryd
Stefan Zeljkovic, Receptive Ecumenism in the Context of the Yugosphere Today. Read abstract
Anna Ljung, Receptive Ecumenism within Congregations. A Practical Local Example from Gotland, Sweden. Read abstract
Erik Ringheim, When the Legwork Fails. Local Experiences of the Devastating Results of the Lack of (Receptive) Ecumenism. Read abstract
Spiritual Ecumenism
Room: Toleransen. Moderator: Cheryl Johns
Emil M Marginean: Towards a Model of Ecumenical ’Asceticism’ in Sophrony Sakharov and Basil Pennington. Read abstract
Paul Lakeland, Discernment: A Spirituality of Receptive Ecumenism. Read abstract
Vera La Mela, Calls for Spiritual Ecumenism in Pre-Conciliar Italy. Read abstract
Receptive Ecumenism in Contemporary Society
Room: Karaktären. Moderator: Ann Aldén
Anna Trônet, Church Law as an Instrument for Ecumenism. The Christian Law Initiative. Read abstract
Cecilia Melder: Existential Intervention in a Secular, though Multi-Religious, Context. Read abstract
Victoria Anne Turner, Kenotic Receptive Ecumenism in the Context of Palestine. Read abstract
Mission and Community
Room: Tacksamheten. Moderator: Risto Jukko
Callan Slipper, Receptive Ecumenism and Mission: Transformed Ecumenism for Transformed Societies. Read abstract
Milutin Janjic, St. Herman of Alaska in Dialogue with Contemporary American Christian Identity. Read abstract
Elizabeth Welch, Koinonia: Ecumenical Transformation through Participation in the Koinonia of God, Leading to the Sharing of Koinonia amongst God’s People in the World. Read abstract
Interfaith Dialogues.
Room: Insikten. Moderator: Peniel Rajkumar
Clare Amos, Christian Relationships with Judaism as Challenge and Tool for Receptive Ecumenism: Touchstone and Transformation. Read abstract
Pradip Bansrior, Dalit Christians and Caste System in India: A Challenge. Read abstract
Wednesday 29 June at 14-16
Systematic Ecumenism 2
Room: Main Hall. Moderator: Susan Durber
Michael Nausner: Becoming through Participation: Flourishing Together at Multiple Boundaries. Read abstract
Arne Fritzson, Disability as an Ecumenical Concern. Read abstract
Diane Ryan, ‘Mutual Flourishing’ in the Church of England: Present Reality or Future Hope? Read abstract
Systematic Ecumenism 3
Room: Toleransen. Moderator: Risto Saarinen
Sven Thore Kloster, Theological Plurality and the Art of Disagreement. Read abstract
Elizabeth Smith Woodard, Receptive Ecumenism and Cruciform Ecumenism in Dialogue. Read abstract
Bilateral Dialogues 2
Room: Framtiden. Moderator: Minna Hietamäki
Cristina Grenholm, Johannes Zeiler, Ulrik Josefsson, The Spirit as Separating and Uniting. Read abstract
Dominic Robinson, The Development of Receptive Ecclesiological Thinking and Vision of John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. Read abstract
Local Experiences of Ecumenism 2
Room: Forum. Moderator: Sofia Camnerin
Joan Patricia Back, Transforming Ecumenism through an Ecumenism of the People. Read abstract
Heikki Repo, Reclaiming the Spirit: Reception of BEM as the Starting Point for Rethinking Eucharist in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Read abstract
Receptive Ecumenism, Listening, and the Practice of Building Peace
Room: Karaktären. Moderator: Cecilia Melder
Åsa Nausner: Poetry from the Hood – a Challenge to the Swedish Society. Transformative Listening at Inter-Cultural and Inter-Religious Borders. Read abstract
Margaret R Rose: Bonds of Difference: Listening for Gifts of Others. Read abstract
Antoine Arjakovsky: Receptive Ecumenism and Peacebuilding between Russia and Ukraine through Icons. Read abstract
Ecumenical Practices.
Room: Tacksamheten. Moderator: Ivana Noble
Doral Marguerite Hayes, Searching for Deeper Unity: Towards a Theology of Relational Receptive Ecumenism through the experience of interchurch families. Read abstract
Ray Temmerman, Receiving the Gift: Interchurch Families as Ecumenical Ground and Resource. Read abstract
Hans Andreasson, Ecumenical Transition. A Conversion from Bewilderment to Hospitality: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Transitions of the Ecumenical Landscape in Gästrikland, Sweden, 1945—2010. Read abstract