WCC NEWS: Webinar will explore how churches change their moral teaching 📄

A webinar scheduled for 27 May and entitled “Change in Moral Teaching – Exploring Continuity and Discontinuity,” will examine concrete historic examples where churches have modified or changed their understanding of a specific moral issue. 18 May 2021 Participants will be using “Churches and Moral Discernment. Volume 2: Learning from History,” a World Council of Churches (WCC) Faith and Order publication in which expert historians, theologians, and ethicists examine the occasions for and the processes of change within traditions. Current tensions within and between churches are often the result of disagreements over moral issues. Churches thus face challenges to preserve unity and meet obstacles to restore unity. Seeing the urgency of the matter, the webinar is designed to assist churches in finding ways to deepen mutual understanding leading to dialogue. The webinar is second in a series of three being organized by the WCC Faith and Order Commission. Speakers will include: Prof. Dr Myriam Wijlens, University of Erfurt (Germany) (moderator) Rev. Dr Morag Logan, Melbourne (Australia) Dr Antigone Samellas, Athens (Greece) Prof. Dr Dirk J. Smit, Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and Princeton Theological Seminary (USA) Rev. Dr Hermen Shastri, general secretary, Council of Churches of Malaysia Prof. Dr Bernd Oberdorfer, University of Augsburg (Germany)   Register here for the series of Webinars Learn more on the moral discernment webinar series Watch the first webinar of the moral discernment series         See more

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