Sabanes Plou, Dafne Sabatier, Auguste Sabatier, Paul Sabbas of Belgrade Sack, Friedrich Sack, James J. Sailer, Johann M. Sakharov, Hieromonk N. Salachas, Dimitri Salapatas, Dimitris F. Salaville, Sévérien J. Salemink, Theo Salmond, Wendy Salomon, Dialungana K. Salvatorelli, Luigi Samarin, Yuri F. Sandegren, Paul Sander, Hartmut Sanders, Charles R. Sanders, Frank K. Sandford, Charles W. Sandford, Ernest G. Sanford, Elias Sanneh, Lamin Santi Cucinotta, Filippo Santus, Cesare Saresella, Daniela Sarx, Tobias Sasse, Hermann Satolli, Francesco Saunders, Thomas B. Sauter, Gerha…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part III. Beginnings: Movements Become a Movement previous chapter 1 Introduction It is beyond doubt that the ecumenical movement was relaunched after the Great War.1 The conflict lent a sense of urgency to the desire for reconciliation and unity, while the fall of the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and Russian Empires had changed the religious balance in many countries of the European continent and opened new mission spaces in the East. The defensive outlook with which the intra-Christian cooperation groups had been imbued for some decades2 may hav…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part II. Prehistory: The Challenges of Modernity previous chapter 1 Introduction In 1856, when Fr. Jean-Xavier (Ivan Sergeyevich) Gagarin, a Russian Orthodox who had converted to Catholicism and become a Jesuit, chose primary sources for the appendices of his book, La Russie sera-t-elle catholique?, he could only publish old texts: the decree of union of the Council of Florence (1439), Clement viii’s bull on the reunion of Russian bishops (1595), and Benedict xiv’s encyclical to missionaries assigned to the East, Allatae sunt (1755).1 The situation w…