![]() ![]() Webber grew up in a fundamental Baptist home. In the books Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail and The Divine Embrace he described the move away from a strict biblicist position. To arrive at this radical ecumenical position, Webber traveled far from his roots. 89).īefore he died Webber organized “A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future,” an effort to challenge evangelicals “to strengthen their witness through a recovery of the faith articulated by the consensus of the ancient Church and its guardians in the traditions of EASTERN ORTHODOXY, ROMAN CATHOLICISM, the Protestant Reformation and the Evangelical awakenings.” evangelicals need to go beyond talk about the unity of the church to experience it through an attitude of acceptance of the whole church and an entrance into dialogue with the Orthodox, Catholic, and other Protestant bodies” (Ancient-Future Faith, p. Evangelicals in a postmodern world will increasingly feel at home with Catholics, Orthodox, and other Protestant bodies.” (Ancient-Future Faith, p. “Today evangelicals and Catholics are enjoying spiritual camaraderie that was nonexistent a few years ago. “We evangelicals need to turn our backs on the old separatist model” (Ancient-Future Faith, p. This perspective will allow us to see Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant churches as various forms of the one true church.” (Ancient-Future Faith, p. ![]() “A goal for evangelicals in the postmodern world is to accept diversity as a historical reality, but to seek unity in the midst of it. So while we are all Christians, some of us are Roman Catholic Christians, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Reformation Christians, twentieth-century Christians, or some other form of modern or postmodern Christians” (Ancient-Future Faith, pp. “Paradigm thinking sets us free to affirm the whole church in all its previous manifestations.This search for a common heritage allows for the emergence of a new understanding of unity and diversity. ![]() Webber continued this line of thinking in Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church (1985), Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (1999), Younger Evangelicals: Facing the Challenges of the New World (2002), and The Divine Embrace : Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (2006). 100-500 has “insights which evangelicals need to recover.” Those “insights” include monastic “contemplative spirituality.” In his book Common Roots (1978) he argued that the early church era of A.D. He is one of the fathers of the contemplative movement and a very influential voice in the emerging church. R obert Webber (1933-2007) was a professor at Wheaton College for about 30 years and taught at Northern Seminary in Chicago the last seven years of his life. The following members of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals are buried here.The following is from the new book we are finishing up entitled What about the Emerging Church? There is a further signposted right turn after 1 kilometre, and the cemeteries are 1.5 kilometres along this road on the left-hand side. At the first crossroads the cemeteries are signposted to the right. The cemeteries can be reached from the motorway by taking the Bergen-op-Zoom exit, which leads on to Rooseveltlaan. Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery and Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery are almost next to one another, 3 kilometres east of the town centre, on a road named Ruytershoveweg, which runs parallel with the A58 Bergen-op-Zoom to Roosendaal motorway. Bergen-op-Zoom is a town in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, 40 kilometres north-west of Antwerp (Belgium). ![]()
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