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1 Foreword The experience of Christianity does not and cannot claim to be immune to history. It cannot because it has inherited from Israel the principle of the narratability of its past (what the biblical Greek calls λόγος),1 and that instance of the intelligibility of its unfolding in time has even entered the New Testament canon (Luke’s διήγησις).2 It cannot do so moreover because, in the encounter with the cultures of the peoples in which the claim for the universality of the gospel of Jesus and the gospel about Jesus was honed, that link between …

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part I. Preamble: Long Term Issues previous chapter Strictly defined as the attempt to bring separated Christians together in order to restore the unity that has been lost over time, ecumenism barely goes back any further than the beginning of the 20th century, when it becomes one of the most significant religious phenomena. Indeed, the word and the reality appeared during the years from 1910 to 1920 in the Anglican and Protestant worlds in Europe and the United States, designa…