Central themes related to the faith, mission, service and unity of the church are explored in this collection of sermons preached and addresses given during the author´s nine years as general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, a communion of 120 churches around the world, with almost 60 million members, who trace their heritage to the ministry of the sixteenth-century Reformer Martin Luther.
Gunnar Stalsett, a priest of the Church of Norway, became the sixth general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation in september 1985, returning to norway in november 1994 to became rector of the institute for Practical Theology at the University of Oslo. Prior to coming to the LWF, he served as general secretary of the Norwegian Bible Society, chair of Norway´s Center Party, general secretary of the Church of Norway Council of foreign relation, as well as a teacher of theology and executive commite of the Wold Council of Churches and of the Nobel Peace Prize committee

One charch made new. Fulfilling the vision. Follow me. Fullness of him who fills all in all. Hearing the cries of the people. God unites. Story-telling with a purpose. Can humans survive? Renewing the ecumenical agenda. Faith and works. Letting the light shine. Promise of pentecost. What is a human being? Communion and reconciliation.

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The communication media aree being transformed by life developments of new technologies and the creation of giant cultural and entertainment conglomerates whose influence reaches to every corner of the world. Concern about what this concentration of power implies for human freedom and dignity has been heightened by recent mergers and the rapid development of multi-media communication. Yet this ongoing communication revolution can olso offer new ways for churches to carry out their mission in a creative and liberating way.
This book drws on the stories of struggle and hope and the experience.tested insights shared during the 1995 global congress of the World Association for Chrisitian Communication to set in sharp relief issues, challenges and opportunities facing Christian commujniator and all those concerned about christian communication today.

Media set the agenda. Search for democracy. Culture, identity and people´s struggle. Is there a place for human dignity? World Association for Christian Communication. Communication for human dignity - the mexican declaration.

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Today´s world is affected by crisis upon crisis. This is, however, nothing new. Humankind throughout history has seen various crisis periods, wich often were forerunners of a new era. This book undertakes to analyze the various characterictics of our transition perios, focused on its vertical dimension. The editors are convinced that transcendency in inherent in the entire creation. They tend to design in wich respect the problems affect and influence people and to show a way in wich people can change and improve their life conditions. The project of the book aims at involving the whle Oikoumene, i. e. the entire inhabited earth.
Contributiosn were writter by a vast range of first rank specialists from all over the world.

Idolatry of the present global economic system. Creation and nature. New concerns for life. New ways of doing theology. Justice and human rights. Nonviolence - violence; peace-wars. New perspective for tomorrow.

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Dr. Robinson discusses frankly the question: Can the church carrier of the new life for the new age? He argues that only a radically changed church, with a genuinely lay yheology and life reshaped by laymen´s needs, can match the rapid secularization of the world. He sums up an impressive amount of recent re-thinking -and he makes here printed, a lecture on "Can truly contemporary person not be an atheist?" To many thousands his new book will be a survey of the contemporary renewal of chsitisnity.

Troubling of the waters. Starting from the other end. Towards a genuinely lay theology. Living in the overlap. Can a truly contemporary person not be an atheist? Spiritual education in a world without religion.

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