“THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS”- A RECONCILING WITNESS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY,
“THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS”- A RECONCILING WITNESS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY,

Summary/Abstract: One of the results of the Ecumenical Movement is growing awareness of the potential of martyrs, saints,and sanctified people - all those we understand in Christian cross-confessional friendship - as witnesses tothe vision of reconciling the Church into a reconciled world. The significance of martyrdom was capturedin a 1978 text from the Bangalore World Council of Churches meeting. In an essay on martyrdom for theDictionary of the Ecumenical Movement, Rowan D. Crews Jr. reported that "by pretending PrimaryChurch martyrs and some of the later Christian Christians as" the common property of all Christians,"many Churches were involved in - a process of mutual recognition of martyrs, this necessitating anecumenical anthology of both the martyrs in the early Church and later. "This work, begun in 1978, wascontinued later.

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