Yale Bulletin and Calendar

January 28, 2000

Volume 28, Number 18

Theologians to discuss milestone church accord

A document that has been hailed as a dramatic step toward reconciliation between the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches will be the focus of a conference at Yale, Friday-Sunday, Feb. 4-6.

On All Saint's Day last year (Oct. 31), officials from The Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church signed the Joint Declaration on Justification, ending over four centuries of mutual condemnation.

The Divinity School event, titled "The Yale Conference on Ecumenism: Justification and the Future of the Ecumenical Movement," will bring together prominent Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed and Catholic theologians to address the implications of the Joint Declaration on Justification and discuss what lies ahead for the ecumenical movement in the new millennium.

The keynote address will be given by The Most Reverend Walter Kasper, a theologian and officer of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity at the Vatican.

Other featured speakers will include:

* George Lindbeck, professor emeritus of historical theology at the Divinity School, who has been active for several decades in the Lutheran/Catholic dialogue and was an observer at the Vatican II conference;

* Sir Henry Chadwick, dean of Christ Church at Oxford University and a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, which produced The Final Report, considered the most important Anglican-Roman Catholic document of the 20th century;

* Michael Root, professor of systematic theology at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, and former director of the Lutheran Ecumenical Institute in Strasbourg, France, who is one of the leading ecumenists of the Lutheran World Federation; and

* Gabriel Fackre, professor of theology at Andover Newton Theological Seminary in Newton, Massachusetts, who is one of the leading ecumenists in the community of the Reformed Churches in the United States.

The presiding bishops of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America also plan to attend.

The conference is sponsored by the Yale Divinity School, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and the Lutheran Studies Program at Yale, in conjunction with the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches.

The conference is open to the public. For more information, including a schedule, or to register, contact Jeanne Moule at (203) 764-9302.

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