Foreword

Abstract

"Can the World Council of Churches (WCC) arrive at common statements regarding moral and ethical questions on behalf of its member churches? A joint response to the gospel imperative of Christian Unity and to God’s call to justice, peace and reconciliation in a broken world requires dialogue and common engagement by the member churches. The experience of the ecumenical movement in the past more than fifty years has shown that the churches strive for common responses to many of the challenging concerns of the time, but also disagree on a number of issues. While churches draw their moral and ethical principles from the scripture they interpret scripture on the basis of their different theological traditions and contextual experiences and arrive, in some cases, at very different conclusions. [...]", p.5