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2018 Lilly Fellows Program National Conference Hope College Holland, Michigan October 12-14 Robust and Receptive Ecumenism The faculty, staff, and students at institutions in church-related higher education are increasingly more ecumenically diverse than the historical or present-day denominational affiliations of colleges and universities might suggest. The intent of robust and receptive ecumenism is to encourage people to speak willingly and openly from their particular Christian perspectives, ask for clarification when others’ ways of speaking need translation, and work at genuine understanding, which might include informed disagreement. Indeed, robust and receptive ecumenism does not assume that everyone must adopt a lowest common denominator stance with respect to differences. Rather, it proposes that, in order for authentic conversation to take place, people must honestly express deeply held views they hold as true. For information about the Lilly Fellows Program National Conference taking place at Hope College in Holland, Michigan on October 12-14, 2018, contact: Jonathan Hagood, PhD | [email protected] Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning | Hope College Daniel Keating, PhD Professor of Theology Sacred Heart Major Seminary Detroit, Michigan A brother in The Servants of the Word in Lansing, Michigan, a member community of The Sword of the Spirit, an international, ecumenical network of charismatic communities around the world. Steven Harmon, PhD Associate Professor of Historical Theology Gardner-Webb University Boiling Springs, North Carolina Author of Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future: Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community (Baylor University Press, 2016). Lisa DeBoer, PhD Professor of Art Westmont College Santa Barbara, California Author of Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church (Eerdmans, 2016), winner of the Lilly Network’s 2016 Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Nonfiction.
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2018 Lilly Fellows Program National Conference
Hope College Holland, Michigan
October 12-14
Robust and Receptive Ecumenism
The faculty, staff, and students at institutions in church-related higher education are increasingly more ecumenically diverse than the historical or present-day denominational affiliations of colleges and universities might suggest. The intent of robust and receptive ecumenism is to encourage people to speak willingly and openly from their particular Christian perspectives, ask for clarification when others’ ways of speaking need translation, and work at genuine understanding, which might include informed disagreement. Indeed, robust and receptive ecumenism does not assume that everyone must adopt a lowest common denominator stance with respect to differences. Rather, it proposes that, in order for authentic conversation to take place, people must honestly express deeply held views they hold as true.
For information about the Lilly Fellows Program National Conference taking place at Hope College in Holland, Michigan on October 12-14, 2018, contact:
Jonathan Hagood, PhD | [email protected]
Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning | Hope College
Daniel Keating, PhD Professor of Theology
Sacred Heart Major Seminary Detroit, Michigan
A brother in The Servants of the Word in Lansing, Michigan,
a member community of The Sword of the Spirit, an
international, ecumenical network of charismatic
communities around the world.
Steven Harmon, PhD Associate Professor of
Historical Theology Gardner-Webb University
Boiling Springs, North Carolina
Author of Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future:
Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community
(Baylor University Press, 2016).
Lisa DeBoer, PhD Professor of Art
Westmont College Santa Barbara, California
Author of Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church
(Eerdmans, 2016), winner of the Lilly Network’s 2016
Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Nonfiction.
