Some references to sites that promote interreligious dialogue, report on ecumenical affairs and/or have texts concerning theological discussions or agreements between churches and among religious groups. Please send in recommendations, especially for documentation of previous ecumenical agreements.

The Encyclical Letter "Ecclesia de Eucharistia"

The English translation from the Vatican website

Introduction: Towards an Ecumenical Structuring of the Churches An Invitation to Recognize the Unity in Process

This introductory essay by José Oscar Beozzo and Giuseppe Ruggieri to the recent Concilium 2001/3 volume on The Ecumenical Constitution of Churches gives an interesting theological discussion of the current situation

The Gift of Authority

Study materials from the Ecumenism section of the Anglican Communion site

A CHE PUNTO SIAMO CON L'ECUMENISMO? IN CAMMINO CON NUOVO CORAGGIO

a report in Italian from Cardinal Walter Kasper

The document Dominus Iesus has started a discussion that continued for some time

Dominus Iesus The English version of the recent document from the Vatican Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith which has evoked a widespread reaction.

A Catholic response from Joan Chittister, O.S.B
Some German reactions:
Nur Wahrheit befreit, a reaction from the German Lutheran theologian Eberhard Jüngel
"Wir müssen ja nicht Zwillinge sein" Streit um "Dominus Iesus": Der Tübinger Theologe Eberhard Jüngel antwortet auf Kardinal Ratzingers Kritik am Kirchenbild der Lutheraner. [I couldn't find a freely accessible text of Cardinal Ratzinger's response in the FAZ]
Stellungnahme zur Erklärung der Glaubenskongregation "Dominus Jesus" von Prof. Dr. Peter Hünermann, Tübingen
Réaction de théologiens catholiques belges à "Dominus Iesus"

Worldwide Faith News

a searchable source for news releases and documents

Ecumenical News International

" a global news service reporting on ecumenical developments and other news of the churches, and giving religious perspectives on news developments world-wide." Here the highlights of the stories; more on subscription

Jewish-Christian Relations

an excellent web site with articles, statements and links

The Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies

'The ICJS is a non-profit organization which concentrates its educational expertise on the dual tasks of disarming religious hatred and establishing models of interfaith understanding.'

The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification between the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church

This historic document represents many years of work between Lutheran and Catholic theologians and church leaders on the most divisive point between Catholic and Reformation Churches.

Official Common Statement

by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church on the Document on Justification

ECUDOCS

The On-Line Ecumenical Documents Project at Boston Theological Institute

The World Council of Churches Interreligious Relations

page has a good discussion and important links

That They May Be One

(Ut Unum Sint) Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, May 25, 1995.

Towards a Common Date for Easter

a document from the World Council of Churches/Middle East Council of Churches Consultation Aleppo, Syria
Common Response to the Aleppo Statement On the Date of Easter/Pascha

WCC Publications

has some excellent resources available for purchase on-line

The Irish School of Ecumenics

located in Dublin and affiliated with Trinity College, it offers programs in ecumenics and peace studies

Ecumene.org

offers a meeting place for the world's religions and ideologies
also on the same server: Center for Global Ethics

Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions

Institute for Ecumencial Research

in Tübingen

International Association for Religious Freedom

a NGO with UN consultative status supporting interfaith cooperation

Chicago Center for Religion and Science

directed by Prof. Philip Hefner (LSTC)

Bat Shalom of the Jerusalem Link

Israeli and Palestinian women searching for peace through dialogue

The Prairie Centre for Ecumenism

of Saskatoon, Canada, has a good number of ecumenical links

Archdiocese of Santa Fe Office of Ecumenical / Interreligious Affairs

an interesting site showing what can be done on the local level.

An Ecumenical Statement on the Literary Genre, "Gospel"

excerpts from The Common Catechism

The Use of the Means of Grace A Statement on the Practice of Word And Sacrament

from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Ecumenical Booklist

An extensive booklist from the Library of the Ecumentical Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies

A New Obstacle to Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue

an article by Rev. Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. (from America, Aug. 1,1998)

The Theological Significance of Ecumenical Convergence in Christian Worship, with Special Attention to "The Great Thanksgiving"

by Robert J. Daly, S.J., Boston College

Repentance and Forgiveness

by Rabbi David R. Blumenthal. If Catholics and other Christians wish to repent and ask forgiveness for persecuting Jews, they should first understand what, in Judaism, the process entails.

Ecological Consciousness and the Symbol "God"

by Gordon D. Kaufman

Contemporary Confucian Spirituality and Multiple Religious Identity

By Robert Cummings Neville, Boston University School of Theology

Religious Diversity: Some Implications for Monotheism

by Rita M. Gross

Islam and Ecology

by Marjorie Hope and James Young Seyyed Hossein Nasr sees at the center of Islam a charge to protect the natural world -- a world that reflects the higher reality of the transcendent God.

What is Religion?

by Thomas A. Idinopulos The study of religion is not the same thing as the practice of faith, and therein lies the problem.

And the Earth is Filled with the Breath of Life

by Arthur Waskow "Spirit. . . . knowledge. . . . relatedness. . . . doing and making: to these dimensions of the One, Jews -- and all of humankind -- are called that they may dance another turn in the great spiral of I-Thou. Rabbi Waskow is a Pathfinder of ALEPH: Alliance"

THE AMBIGUITY OF MATTER

by Huston Smith Modernity recognizes little or no connection between material things and their spiritual roots. If this is so, primal peoples may well be the better metaphysicians.

NINE WAYS NOT TO TALK ABOUT GOD

by Raimon Panikkar The author has a precise idea not of what God is, but of what God is not -- and even that idea falls under his attack.

THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE OF GOD THROUGH THE EYES OF AN AKAN WOMAN

by Mercy Amba Oduyoye "Africans experience God -- Nana -- as the good parent, the grandparent. Some say he is father; others say she is mother. But the sentiment is the same: Nana is the source of loving-kindness and protection."