Adventist Interchurch Relations: A Study in Ecumenics

By Stefan Höschele and Stefan Hoschele

This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of Seventhday Adventist interchurch relations - a 20-million member body whose ecumenical stance has so far been underresearched. For the sake of interpreting denominational involvement and reservations in Adventism as well as beyond, the study develops a new academic approach to ecumenism based on Relational Models Theory, a comprehensive social science paradigm of interpreting human relationships. The resulting typology of ecumenical interactions and the historical case study of Adventism suggest that such a relational interpretation of ecumenical interaction sheds light on many of the unresolved issues in ecumenics - such as divergent concepts of unity, difficulties in recognition processes, and the permanence of denominationalism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3847114638
• ISBN13: 9783847114635
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Length: 511 Pages
• Weight: 8.79 lbs.