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Los bautistas y los metodistas comienzan el diálogo teológico

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La primera sesión del diálogo teológico entre la Alianza Mundial Bautista (BWA) y el Consejo Metodista Mundial se celebrará en la Beeson Divinity School, Universidad de Samford, en Birmingham, Alabama, en los Estados Unidos, del 30 de enero al 5 de febrero.

El diálogo está previsto para 2014-2018 y explorará el tema, Fe activa en el amor: Cantado y predicado, confesado y recordado, vivido y aprendido. Tiene por objeto lograr una mayor comprensión y apreciación mutuas; un intercambio mutuo de dones para el enriquecimiento y la renovación de las iglesias bautistas y metodistas; una mayor participación en una misión y un testimonio comunes en el mundo; y un mayor compañerismo y cooperación mediante la identificación y la superación de barreras.

The session in Birmingham includes an overview of Baptist and Methodist history and theological heritage. �It will be hosted by Timothy George, chair of the BWA Commission on Doctrine and Christian Unity and dean and professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School.

Other BWA representatives include Curtis Freeman, research professor of theology and Baptist Studies at Duke Divinity School in the US; Deji Isaac Ayegboyin, professor and head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria; Stephen Holmes, senior lecturer in theology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland; and Val�rie Duval-Poujol, professor of Biblical Exegesis at the Catholic Institute in Paris, France, assistant director of the School for Bible and Orientalism and a guest teacher in Protestant theological institutions in France.

El Secretario General de la BWA, Neville Callam, y Fausto Vasconcelos, director de la División de Misión, Evangelización y Reflexión Teológica de la BWA, también estarán en las reuniones de Birmingham.

Callam said “participation in bilateral dialogues is an expression of BWA’s commitment to continue the mission of God whose Christ prayed for the unity of the church so that the world might believe.” He declared that “in asking how we might manifest this oneness, we are drawn to the words of the apostle Paul that ‘the only thing that counts is faith working through love.'”

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� January 28, 2014

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